Hello,
Total plumbing ignoramus here, so maybe this is a stupid question.
Found a leak under the house a few days ago. There's a wet spot in the wood around the toilet drain pipe and about a foot away one of the joists has a wet spot that's about a square foot (there's no direct link of wetness between the two areas, but I'm guessing the water is just running along the subfloor).
I've replaced the toilet's wax seal; it was definitely old and around the flange felt wet, so I'm thinking this was the source of the leak BUT...
The toilet hasn't been flushed since Saturday morning, and I can detect no decrease in the size of the wet spots. Shouldn't it be drying out by now, at least a little? I live in Athens GA, so the weather has been running from the 40s to the 60s F, if that makes a difference.
Now I'm worrying that perhaps the toilet isn't the source of the leak.
Total plumbing ignoramus here, so maybe this is a stupid question.
Found a leak under the house a few days ago. There's a wet spot in the wood around the toilet drain pipe and about a foot away one of the joists has a wet spot that's about a square foot (there's no direct link of wetness between the two areas, but I'm guessing the water is just running along the subfloor).
I've replaced the toilet's wax seal; it was definitely old and around the flange felt wet, so I'm thinking this was the source of the leak BUT...
The toilet hasn't been flushed since Saturday morning, and I can detect no decrease in the size of the wet spots. Shouldn't it be drying out by now, at least a little? I live in Athens GA, so the weather has been running from the 40s to the 60s F, if that makes a difference.
Now I'm worrying that perhaps the toilet isn't the source of the leak.