carolbil
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My husband and I have been living in this house for the last 6 years and have never experienced anything like this before. We have two bathrooms but the one causing the problem has just a shower with tiled walls. For the last few days we've noticed a 'drip' (or at least what sounds like a drip) in the wall behind the shower (other side of the wall is our bedroom). It's just one drip at a time but not constant like drip-drip-drip-drip....I'll hear one 'drop', then maybe 20 seconds later I'll hear another 'drop', then maybe the next one will come 45 seconds later. We've also noticed that it's intermittant; in other words, it doesn't seem to be associated with shower use - there's times I'll hear it right after the shower has been used, other times I'll hear it a few hours after. There's no rhyme or reason to it. I also find it odd this 'drip' is loud enough that I can hear it even when I'm in other parts of the house. It's because of this that my husband doesn't think it's a drip at all, he says something dripping behind a wall would not be loud enough to be heard in another room. It seems rather loud to me too...it's almost similar to the clicking noise you can make with your tongue off the roof of your mouth, that's the only way I can describe it. If we stand in the shower and listen through the wall, we can hear it, or if we stand on the bedroom side and listen there, we can also hear it but can't pinpoint it.....we just know it's coming from inside the wall. Now my husband isn't a plumber and does not mind saying he knows nothing about plumbing, but he says it doesn't sound like a drip from water to him because he can't imagine what a water drip would be hitting inside of a wall that would cause it to be that loud. If it's not a drip, what else could it be and why would it start all of a sudden? And if it is a drip, how on earth do we find it and fix it?? The thought of ripping a hole in the wall isn't something we want to do, especially if it's not a water drip. We have no leaks of any kind inside the shower, or nothing obvious that suggests a water problem....just this constant sound of a drop of water hitting something. This wouldn't be the pipe, would it?Can anyone on here give us some idea of what this sound is? Or if it does seem like a water drip, is there a way we can fix it without going into the wall?
Any help or suggestions at all will be greatly appreciated.
Any help or suggestions at all will be greatly appreciated.
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