Dh had a shower and I got wet in the kitchen

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Oh its so not good . DH had a shower this morning whilst I was washing up in the kitchen. I started to feel a drip drip drip, I looked up and water was dripping through the ceiling and also running down the wall .

The kitchen is a new paint job (only moved in 2 months ago and thought was painted to sell) and the bathroom is old suite, new sealant round things. Toilet appears to leak and has a lot of condensation and now it would appear the bath leaks (shower above the bath). On closer inspection of the kitchen ceiling, this is definatly not a new problem. This has happened before and been painted over .

We so can't afford this right now . DH was having a shower mid morning because he was going to a job interview because he's been made redundant. All work we're doing on the house at the moment is cheap (pot of paint job). We're praying he'll get a job soon so we can go ahead with our extension plans this year. But tbh even if he does get a job starting next week we don't have the money to do a new bathroom and kitchen ceiling thats going to be all ripped out with the extension anyway.

Right, get the panel off the side of the bath and have a look. Might just be the previous owners were too lazy to reattach a pipe properly. Or had no idea how to!

Damage may yet only be superficial.

Ours was.... (bath overflow pipe inlet to plug assembly had come adrift!)

we had a tiny gap around the over flow that caused the same. ampere is right, have a look could be something small and fixable yourself

Thank you so much. He's not back from his interview (its a 2hr drive away but its not where the jobs going to be, just head office). I'll get him under the bath tonight or 1st thing tomorrow. Kids won't be having a bath or shower tonight.

I really hope this is superficial and easy to fix. We can live with the ceiling as it is at the moment until the extension is done it can be redone as part of that. But much more water and I think the ceiling will start falling down which won't be so easy to live with seeings as its in our kitchen.

The damage itself should be covered under your house contents insurance, although if it's just damp patches/drips then it may not be worth paying the excess. I would guess that the leakage is from a pipe coming adrift/sealant needing to be redone. Unless the bath has got a crack (which you'd probably see) then I doubt it's the sort of problem that would necessitate a new bathroom.

We had this last week- water coming through lounge. It was the sealant round shower- had it done a year ago but obviously not a brilliant job!
No probs now.

If it happens with a shower and not a bath, I'd guess it's the sealant somewhere.

Or possibly poor grout on the tiles.

It's very scary when you see water running down your walls, but it doesn't sound like it'll be a big job.

Run the bath taps and if it leaks, you'll know that it's the waste pipe at fault (very easily fixed) and if not, it's the sealant, again very easily fixed. It's slightly more problematic if it's the grouting, but I doubt that's the problem as the first sign is usually a tile falling off, rather than water running down the wall.

The good news is, if it's happened before and the ceiling is still intact, it should be fine again if you let it dry out.

Stand in the bath and see if your weight causes the tiling and bath rim to part company. If it does, that may be the issue.

Carve out all the sealant (esp if it's silicon. I believe silicon doesn't bond to silicon well). Use a scalpel blade. Be thorough!

Reseal with flexible sealant. B&Q, easier with a 'gun' (£3?).

But do take the side off and make sure a) no adrift piping, b) bath supports are sound and c), put the plug in, run the bath cautiously and observe carefully if the seal around the plug outlet is leaking ( a pile of old towels is useful!) AND

d) don't panic. It may well be not serious at all. We are DIY numpties but manged to sort our leaky bath!

Is it a shower with a pump ? Our pump sprung a leak and water collected in the airing cupboard and seeped through the floor. In the bath the overflow grill hadn't been sealed so when dh ahd a very deep one it lapped over and ran down.

I flooded the downstairs neighbours bathroom last week, by having a shower.

Turns out one of the legs on the bath was off and where we'd been standing in it to shower, we'd cracked the grout along the bottom row of tiles. Water from the shower was running down the wall, then going through the gap.

I have grout, I just haven't got around to fixing it yet! (baths are safe, albeit inconvenient)

Took us ages to sort out a similar problem with a shower unit. Several people looked at it including the original installers and had no idea what the problem was. Eventually, someone, can't remember who, worked out that the tiles had come away from the wall and water was leaking down behind them. Sounds bad, but wasn't too difficult to sort in the end. We removed the tiles at the bottom, carefully, retiled and regrouted. Problem solved, and H did it (and he's not DIY god!).

Right, we've not got the side off the bath because its not a standard panel. Its a wooden thing that we can't unscrew so looks like to get it off we're going to end up breaking it.

I had a bath and I didn't flood the kitchen so its clearly something to do with having a shower. So that must be the seal around the top of the bath or tiles mustn't it?

We're going to b&q tomorrow for paint for the living room and we'll get some sealant and try and reseal around the bath for starters.