Anita and I discovered recently that the wood floor in the hallway and carpet in the girl's bedroom is wet. Why is it wet? I don't know yet. It'll be expensive to fix I bet. Sorry about the rhyming, but I've been reading Dr. Seuss books to the puellae lately and it just couldn't be helped.
We don't know where the water came from. We thought it was the a/c air handler drain backing up and overflowing. That's happened several times in the past. That whole area is dry now but the carpet in the girl's bedroom is still wet. Anita suggested that the water could be coming from a leaking drain pipe that runs in the slab. This idea came from her observation that the guest bathroom tub suddenly doesn't drain right and that the drain pipe would cut through the girl's bedroom. The water leaking from the pipe would then work it's way through the concrete slab to the carpet pad and then to the carpet. I hope this isn't the problem. I'd rather not have to have the concrete slab cut up haphazardly throughout the house chasing down a leaky pipe.
What could it be? What could it be? I do not know, if you do, please tell me.
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I'm an ignoramus, but some guesses -
Concrete slab, so this is the first floor, so at least no worries about a ceiling coming down?
The a/c air handler drain has been ruled out?
Sounds like the source is in the girls' bedroom or outside it? So at least the whole first floor isn't a possible source. Except maybe under the hallway.
Can running one of those long snakes thru the drain of the guest bathroom tub produce any illuminating info (besides maybe clearing a blockage), like where the drain pipe runs? That's how some guys located an outside underground dry well for me that a gutter was draining into that had started overflowing, they could tell from feeling the direction the snake went. Maybe clearing the blockage would "fix" the problem, depending on how much lack of perfection you're willing to tolerate and how often the tub is used.
Pulling up the carpet (I assume it could then be reinstalled without the expense of a new carpet) might show a more exact source location unless the whole carpet is soaked.
Pitting bleach down the tub drain, and then seeing if you get a bleach smell in the girls' room, having them hang out elsewhere for the duration.
I'm hoping this will be an easy fix.
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