Merry fvcking Christmas to me.

Lambie.

We now have a leaky pipe that must be somwhere in the master bath.  Water is seeping up through the grout in the bathroom and leaking into the kitchen through the ceiling.  We also have an entire wall that is wet.  I can only imagine it is going to take some major home demo to fix.  I have a call into our builder because the house is new and it is under waranty but I don't have a good feeling about it getting fixed this week.  Hopefully the whole ceiling doesn't cave in in the meantime.

hippotree

Oh no, that is AWFUL. I am glad you have the warranty but that still really sucks.

mmk3742

That really sucks!  Hopefully it isn't too much of a hassle to get it fixed.

jCamsquared

Oh no!! That really sucks :-( Thank goodness it's still under warranty though. I hope it isn't too hard to get them to fix it.

buckin

Find your access panel to your tub. It should be on the faucet side, wall behind it...often hidden inside a cabinet or a closet....Example: Mine is in the closet in the room BEHIND the bathroom and is a piece of Sheetrock screwed in but you can see the seems to locate it.

Turn the water off to your tub, toilet and sink in that bathroom. Depending on WHERE the leak is that MAY help alleviate more water coming through but I don't know.

As long as you get the leak shut off/and or fixed, the damaged areas will probably hold up as long as more water is not added to them, though I would take lots of pictures and probably start demo myself to prevent mold. But that's just me.

GL!

robinsokj

I was also going to suggest turning the water off.  Ours is behind some sheet rock in our linen closet.  After one explosion I convinced DH to make an access door.  What a crappy way to start the holiday week.  At least nothing should come out of your pocket though

Lambie.

Is there a shut off for each individual piece?  I know where our emergency water shut off is but it cuts off water to our whole house.  If this is all we've got then we are in trouble.

buckin

Lambie.:

Is there a shut off for each individual piece?  I know where our emergency water shut off is but it cuts off water to our whole house.  If this is all we've got then we are in trouble.

Yes. If its built right, there will be a shut off valve to EACH piece.

Each sink should have a shut off underneath, each toilet had the valve underneath and each shower/ tub usually has an access panel somewhere on the backside of the wall it is located on. If its a garden tub/spa tub that is not ONE piece but an insert it may have the valves underneath so access would be along the bottom of the tub (every now and again you get some jackarse who tiles over it and doesn't leave an access panel but often they are just cleverly camaflouged into the tile work- look for a piece of tile that isn't grouted and that can pop off). If you can't find one of those I would probably shut the whole house off temporarily until you locate them. You can fill the spare bathroom tub up with water and use that for washing hands or refilling the spare toilet when you flush. It will still flush if you add water externally with the water turned off.

Lambie.

Ok, I will have DH look for these.  I do know our jacuzzi tub has wood pannels across the front.  One of them is actually a door so you can get under the tub.  I thought it was just to access the motor but probably for this too.  This does make me wonder what other plumbing in the house is effed up since we don't ever use the other bathrooms. Fark fark fark.

jCamsquared

Lambie.:

Ok, I will have DH look for these.  I do know our jacuzzi tub has wood pannels across the front.  One of them is actually a door so you can get under the tub.  I thought it was just to access the motor but probably for this too.  This does make me wonder what other plumbing in the house is effed up since we don't ever use the other bathrooms. Fark fark fark.

That is definitely the access panel. I hope you can get it shut off!

Anna&Matt

I'm sorry lambie, that really sucks!