lisa777777
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We just installed the toilet. There is UNDILUTED urine leaking down, but only from below the toilet (nothing showing around the bowl near the toilet or where the toilet meets the tile on the floor). You can only see the dripping urine from the basement, when you look up near where the toilet seal is. There is NO urine showing anywhere above.
It appears to be dripping down from near the seal, over the cast iron pipe that connects to the bottom of the toilet (1940's house). The odd thing: When you flush the toilet, it doesn't drip. We haven't figured out when it drips, but are thinking it must be when someone urinates in a certain way INSIDE the toilet ! Again, there are no signs of urine anywhere outside the toilet or around the base near the tile in the bath. The only thing we see is the urine, every now and then, dripping from somewhere around the bottom of the toilet, onto the cast iron pipe that takes the waste away in the basement.
could this be a crack somewhere in the toilet itself since the urine only appears intermittently; is NOT diluted with water; and is not showing up anywhere in the bathroom near or around the toilet, but is only showing up BELOW the toilet, in the basement ceiling below? we are thinking perhaps a boy is urinating and hitting the toilet at a certain spot which is causing this intermittent leak.
Any ideas?
It appears to be dripping down from near the seal, over the cast iron pipe that connects to the bottom of the toilet (1940's house). The odd thing: When you flush the toilet, it doesn't drip. We haven't figured out when it drips, but are thinking it must be when someone urinates in a certain way INSIDE the toilet ! Again, there are no signs of urine anywhere outside the toilet or around the base near the tile in the bath. The only thing we see is the urine, every now and then, dripping from somewhere around the bottom of the toilet, onto the cast iron pipe that takes the waste away in the basement.
could this be a crack somewhere in the toilet itself since the urine only appears intermittently; is NOT diluted with water; and is not showing up anywhere in the bathroom near or around the toilet, but is only showing up BELOW the toilet, in the basement ceiling below? we are thinking perhaps a boy is urinating and hitting the toilet at a certain spot which is causing this intermittent leak.
Any ideas?
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