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I am trying to reconstruct a water leak scenario to determine where some water could have come from although I didn't actually do all the steps at that time.
I found a puddle in my garage that was on a shared wall with our wine storage room. There was water in the wine room although not a "flood" amount. I checked the surrounding rooms (guest room, linen closet, coat closet) but there was no water there. My first thought was that the chiller unit had malfunctioned but there was too much water for that. There are plumbing pipes in the attic above as well as the water heater but there didn't seem to be enought water for that significant a source. Can anyone hypothesize as to what I failed to consider when trying to figure out where the water could have come from? I called my husband to come home from work and then I went to work and left it to him to resolve. When I came home everything was dry and back as it should be (except for a strip of molding from the wine room ceiling that was being straightened.)
When I asked my husband what had happened he told me to see if I could figure it out on my own. So far, I have not yet come up with what I missed. Can anyone here suggest anything?
No, any condensate from the car would be on the floor under the car and would not have migrated inside to the wine room. My only new thoughts since posting have been possibly something in the attic like maybe the AC unit, a leak in the flashing around a vent pipe in the roof or even an actual roof leak - although it hadn't rained in quite a while. But thanks for the thought.
No, any condensate from the car would be on the floor under the car and would not have migrated inside to the wine room. My only new thoughts since posting have been possibly something in the attic like maybe the AC unit, a leak in the flashing around a vent pipe in the roof or even an actual roof leak - although it hadn't rained in quite a while. But thanks for the thought.
Eh, it was a long shot, I know.
Leaks can be notoriously hard to locate, since the water often likes to run horizontally along framing members before it drops. So sometimes you're looking at one point when it's really a dozen or so feet over.
Yes, water can run a long way before falling. On of my brothers was hired to find a leak at a car dealership. He went snooping and told them he was going to have to tear into the roof at the other end of the building. The didn't believe him and hired someone else.
The new "expert" tore up the roof all the way from the drip to where my brother told them he was going tear in. 80 feet of unnecessarily ripped up roof and expense.
I've had some really old houses where the leak was really at the crown of the roof, but it ran down the sheathing into the walls and down the studs (balloon framing) to the first floor. Drove me crazy finding it.
We had a wet spot on the closet floor in our basement bedroom back in June. I thought we had a leak in the drain lines from upstairs, but everything was dry around those. It had me stumped until I checked the drain pan under the condenser coils of our whole house AC (located above the furnace). It was running over. It seems the drain line was partially blocked somewhere and the pan filled up and started to run over. I got the materials to run a new drain line from the pan over to the sump pump and it has been dry ever since. Could something like that possibly have happened? If the drain line was partially plugged, some condensation could have gotten through so that it looked like it was working properly.
Assuming the strip of molding in the wine room ceiling was being straightened out because it got wet,,, one would have to say the water came from above. However if it were a leaking water pipe, water would continue to come into the room until you fixed the pipe.
A possible cause for the water (if it came from above and it was only lasted for a while and stopped leaking on it’s own without repair) could be the water heater “overflow”. If the heater gets too hot for one reason or another it will discharge the hot water through the overflow value (normally it’s discharged to a drain or outside) through a pipe. It all depends on how your water heater is installed, but I’d look at an overflow value problem? The next question has to be “why” did the heater get so hot that caused some water to escape or discharged out the overflow valve? Check the thermostat on the heating elements or gas pilot of the water heater.
The next option is some drunk came into the wine storage room – drank a bottle all by himself and found that he needed to relieve bladder. After sobering up left without a trace.
And the last option is a bottle or two of wine popped their corks and all the wine was lost onto the floor giving the appearance of a water leak.
The next option is some drunk came into the wine storage room – drank a bottle all by himself and found that he needed to relieve bladder. After sobering up left without a trace.
Now THAT is a possibility I never considered...
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