Hi Everyone,
I really need your help on this one...We build a new house 14 months ago. The ceramic guy we hired convinced us to use the Schluter orange membrane sytstem for our 3X6 ceramic-tiled shower.
We tought that with that, no water could reach behind the walls or floor...
Last month, we discovered a water drip downsairs in the laudry room,...(the shower that has a leak is straigt upstair).
the laundry room ceiling is drywalled and there is only a spot big as a dime that is wet...so it has to be a new problem.
Fortunetely, the basement ceiling everywhere else is not finished and we are able to see the plumbing of the masterbath. and the top of the sheetrock of the laundry room. its dry.
This is what's really WEIRD: when the shower is running, downstairs, we can see water dripping along the hot water pipe.
The dripping starts only where the subfloor begins. My husband changed the hot water pipe, thinking it was that.
didn't help. so we called the plumber.
the plumber ripped the sheetrock on the shower wall that has all the piping (rain shower head, 3 jets, and telephone head, etc)
that interior wall was bone dry... insulation was intact..(we soundpround as it is the masterbath)
he checked everthing, said its not the pipes...he looked at the drain, (ripped the sheetrock in laundry room) says its not it.
the sub floor, the 2X4 next to the leak, everything is dry...water is only coming along the hot water pipe.
it takes rougly 10 min for the dripping to start.
we called the ceramic guy, he wants to take out the grout and put some kind of epoxy stuff over the tiles... we want him to go at the source and rip off the shower floor and redo the membrane... he said he would do it his way first...we had a bit of an argument, we don't want him to put a band aid on this situation and we'll have the same problem next year...
What do you think? do you think its the membrane? could the house has cracks as its new and it would have separated the membrane from the floor??
Any suggestions will be appreciated...thanks in advance!
I really need your help on this one...We build a new house 14 months ago. The ceramic guy we hired convinced us to use the Schluter orange membrane sytstem for our 3X6 ceramic-tiled shower.
We tought that with that, no water could reach behind the walls or floor...
Last month, we discovered a water drip downsairs in the laudry room,...(the shower that has a leak is straigt upstair).
the laundry room ceiling is drywalled and there is only a spot big as a dime that is wet...so it has to be a new problem.
Fortunetely, the basement ceiling everywhere else is not finished and we are able to see the plumbing of the masterbath. and the top of the sheetrock of the laundry room. its dry.
This is what's really WEIRD: when the shower is running, downstairs, we can see water dripping along the hot water pipe.
The dripping starts only where the subfloor begins. My husband changed the hot water pipe, thinking it was that.
didn't help. so we called the plumber.
the plumber ripped the sheetrock on the shower wall that has all the piping (rain shower head, 3 jets, and telephone head, etc)
that interior wall was bone dry... insulation was intact..(we soundpround as it is the masterbath)
he checked everthing, said its not the pipes...he looked at the drain, (ripped the sheetrock in laundry room) says its not it.
the sub floor, the 2X4 next to the leak, everything is dry...water is only coming along the hot water pipe.
it takes rougly 10 min for the dripping to start.
we called the ceramic guy, he wants to take out the grout and put some kind of epoxy stuff over the tiles... we want him to go at the source and rip off the shower floor and redo the membrane... he said he would do it his way first...we had a bit of an argument, we don't want him to put a band aid on this situation and we'll have the same problem next year...
What do you think? do you think its the membrane? could the house has cracks as its new and it would have separated the membrane from the floor??
Any suggestions will be appreciated...thanks in advance!