My house just recently developed a unique little water feature that we're not super
excited about.
Right there...coming down the lamp onto the countertop.
It's a relatively recent development and not necessarily something we want.
So let's see why it's happening.
Let's get started.
[Intro]
That's funny, on the top of the light fixture it says “dry location only.”
They weren't planning on this.
I think we found the issue.
We have this lit up little camera that's on a wire that we can stick up through the hole
in the ceiling from where the light used to be.
And right about 3 feet that direction is the drain for the tub, and I think there's a connection
somewhere where it joins up with the drain.
But the only thing is the only way we can fix that is by making another hole by the
seam of the drywall over here where that drain is.
We will have to do some patching in a second, but apparently that's easier than ripping
out the whole tub.
So that pipe right there is coming from underneath the tub.
This is a pretty nifty little thing.
[Sawing sounds]
It's wet.
Look at that.
Alright, inside of this hole, doing a little detective work, we see that these wires have
drips on them and I can feel that this joint right here is a bit wet.
So it makes me think that maybe the glue didn't get all around the tub, but we'll check.
Now we have a nice little sunroof.
Cambry, how do you feel about your kitchen?
[laughing] We'll get it fixed eventually.
It's better than the water feature.
-Yeah.
-So what we're thinking right now is here inside of the tub we think the leak is coming
from here.
So we have one of these drain wrench things that can do down in the hole and help us pull
it out.
It turns out the leak is not at the joint farther down the pipe, but actually at the
seam where the drain in the tub screws into the black ABS pipe, which means the drain
is not sealed.
So something was happening...if you look you can see down into the basement right here.
It doesn't help that the drain is off center, but it flexes enough that it shouldn't be
too big of an issue.
But I am by no means a plumber and this is my first time replacing a drain.
So we have a rubber ring.
The new drain has a slightly smaller diameter, but a plastic thread ring that expands the
new drain to fit our old drain pipe.
With that in place and a rubber seal around the edge of the drain, screwing it in seals
everything tight and hopefully solves our problem.
This is underneath with the new drain in place.
There you go.
I guess we could have saved a few steps by just starting with the drain replacement,
but the drywall probably needed to be pulled down anyway.
So it looks like...this is the old drain.
Whoever installed it put the plumber's putty, this stuff right here, they put it all over
the threads like it was some kind of thread locker, when the instructions say to just
put it underneath the lip.
So it's either the plumber's putty that was allowing the water to go past the drain, or
it was like kinked off to the side or something.
But either way I think we found the culprit.
And finally it's finished.
So we've given about three baths in that tub now and so far no leaks.
Do you like having your kitchen put back together?
-Yeah.
It's much more functional now.
-There's no water feature coming down the lamp.
That was super weird.
-It was a mystery for a bit.
-Anyway, thanks for joining us on this journey.
-Thanks a ton for watching.
We'll see you around.
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