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re: Slab leak detection - plumber recommendation?
Posted on 7/24/23 at 4:18 pm to tigerpride8
Posted on 7/24/23 at 4:18 pm to tigerpride8
Going to be $350 to film the sewer pipes. I think ADL charges about $650 to come out
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Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:51 pm to jamiegla1
We pretty much exhausted all possibilities and only found out later the real cause. I actually had a pool leak yrs ago and the pool guy cut the pipes and pressurized them with air and found the leak. I’d hard pipe the French drain and get that water out of there to be safe. Hope some of this helps!
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:39 pm to Duck Island
dang...so your pool leak made its way to your slab and your floors? Yeah I'll take that advice on the drain. Thanks
Posted on 7/24/23 at 9:27 pm to holdem Tiger
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Their quote was reasonable so I have them coming out tomorrow. Thanks
Sam is a great guy, great plumber.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 8:25 am to jamiegla1
I remodeled my neighbor’s house and he had the wet slab from another neighbor’s leaking irrigation system. As a side note, I had a leaking pool at my house. Sorry for the confusion!
Posted on 7/25/23 at 9:51 am to jamiegla1
The plumber who actually found the leak and rerouted assured me that he could do more with a stethoscope than LD could with their gadgets. A neighbor of mine has been chasing a damp slab at a corner of the house for years. There's so little rain now that he has no problem, but he added regular drains at downspouts a few months back. Fortunately, he has a ditch to drain into.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 10:50 am to LSUDad
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Sam is a great guy, great plumber.
Agreed. I liked him a lot. He’s my guy from now on.
Didn’t even bother with the camera. It was a toilet leak under the tile exacerbated by the sewer clog that caused my problem.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 1:52 pm to weadjust
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You may not have a leak and your moisture is coming in through the cracks.
This would be my guess. Generally, when a sanitary line leaks, it is due to channel rot. The pipe becomes clogged with soil beneath the slab and you will have slow drains and backups. If a supply line leaks, water will fill the sleeve and come up through the slab inside the walls where that section of the loop goes down int and comes back out of the slab.
Posted on 7/25/23 at 5:10 pm to LSU82BILL
I put down an 8'x8' piece of visqueen over a portion of floor that had previously dry and previously wet spots. It's been a day and I can see the condensate near the crack. Im going to keep playing with this method to see which end of the crack its coming from.
I didnt notice any condensate overnight but it was there when I got home around 3 pm today. Im wondering if my sprinkler system in the back is causing it. I'll probably do a couple experiments with this.
Again, this thread has been very helpful. I really do enjoy troubleshooting myself or with the help of a few others when I can.
I didnt notice any condensate overnight but it was there when I got home around 3 pm today. Im wondering if my sprinkler system in the back is causing it. I'll probably do a couple experiments with this.
Again, this thread has been very helpful. I really do enjoy troubleshooting myself or with the help of a few others when I can.
Posted on 7/26/23 at 10:59 am to jamiegla1
Repair the slab with crack filler and a vapor barrier and you should be fine. Most laminate flooring comes with combination vapor barrier/soundproof cushion too. They're also making moisture resistant laminate that you can't differentiate from engineered wood flooring.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:27 am to jamiegla1
I don’t think it’s very likely water from outside your home is going under your house and causing an issue OP. If it was that much of a leak you’d almost definitely notice it outside.
My parents had a leak under their master bath bamboo wood floor. It was a pinhole leak in the copper supply and crazy thing is it was the hot water and it made that spot noticeably warm through the slab and flooring. They ended up paying a plumbing company $400 per fixture to re run pex through the attic to their entire house.
Without knowing more of your specifics it’s hard to pinpoint, but if that’s a remodeled area I’d certainly 100% eliminate anything related to that under the slab.
You could turn your water off and bring in water from the outside (pool in buckets) and dump into the sinks/ drains and see if you are getting moisture from a sewage line?
My parents had a leak under their master bath bamboo wood floor. It was a pinhole leak in the copper supply and crazy thing is it was the hot water and it made that spot noticeably warm through the slab and flooring. They ended up paying a plumbing company $400 per fixture to re run pex through the attic to their entire house.
Without knowing more of your specifics it’s hard to pinpoint, but if that’s a remodeled area I’d certainly 100% eliminate anything related to that under the slab.
You could turn your water off and bring in water from the outside (pool in buckets) and dump into the sinks/ drains and see if you are getting moisture from a sewage line?
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