Any way to find a leak in an exterior wall behind cabinets without taking out the cabinets? Like pinpointing roughly a foot area it could be? I seem to have water seepage on my exterior brick near my slab. Assuming it is a pipe. Nothing coming under cabinetry in kitchen. The seepage is along a six foot section of wall but there are only two water sources along that wall that fall into that area. Recent kitchen remodel. Wondering if a screw hit a pipe when installing cabinets.

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Posted by Baers Foot

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Posted on 6/3/19 at 9:48 pm to LSUlove

Endoscope camera

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Posted by keakar

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Posted on 6/3/19 at 11:48 pm to LSUlove

quote:
Wondering if a screw hit a pipe when installing cabinets.

Ding Ding Ding Ding

this is your answer

and no, you have to start over now, upper and lower cabinets come out as well as counter tops and sheetrock removed to get to the pipes to make the repairs.

maybe if you are lucky you can just take out the lowers if the hole is near the floor so thats your best hope to reduce the cost of redoing everything

sorry for the bad news you were expecting but yep, there is no way to avoid this

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Posted by Clames

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Posted on 6/4/19 at 12:37 am to LSUlove

A thermal camera might narrow down the area but if you've got a pinhole in the plumbing then you are tearing out cabinets, sheetrock, and insulation anyway. I saw an interesting job where the trim carpenters had shot a piece of base into a pipe and the nail sealed the hole so there was never a drip, until nearly 20 years later when the owner removed that section of base to redo the floor. On a house I was helping trim, one of the guys was shooting up a vertical furring strip for the master closet shelves and managed to hit a pipe 6 times before it started spraying. The plumbers cut the sheetrock, pipe, and furring strip out all still attached together as a rather unfortunate trophy...