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ss homes (FL)
Hi,
So at a rental property we have this mystery leak. Every couple months a pool of water appears in a closet under the baseboard. Its terrazzo floor in their so the tenants just mop it up and all is good. BUT we don't know where it is coming from. The closet backs up to and shares a wall with the bathroom. we have tried all fixtures. changed stems/valves in shower, resealed and grouted all tile, flushed the toilet over and over and can't see anything leaking.
we checked the roof, and nothing. we have run every faucet and appliance and can't get it to show up. But sure enough every 1-3 months the tenant sends a picture and its always a puddle in the same place. if you are standing in the closet the left wall backs up to the shower on the other side and the right wall backs up to the front area of the bathroom. no fixures are on that side of the wall. but the opposite wall in the bathroom has the toilet. after heavy rains still no leak. its seems so random. what are we missing??!!
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ravi102769 (VA)
Usually in a situation like this it is water getting out of the shower, it could be the water getting out from the curtain or door when someone is doing something that they don't do all the time, it could be water running down the wall and getting in behind the escutcheons. It's tough to say without seeing it.
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OldLeak (WI)
My bet is the tenant is liberally mopping the floor on those occasions and thinking the water will stay in the bathroom but some of it is leaking into said closet via a crack or hole along the base of the bathroom along that wall opposite the closet. Or the toilet is overflowing etc but the issue is probably where the floor meets the base material of the bathroom.
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