Water leaking everywhere!

imnotadt

Hi guys,

Little but of help would be appreciated.

My boyfriend and I live in a flat where we own 75%. All the flats have exactly the same layout.

We've discovered that there is a leak of really hot water coming down on the outside of the waste pipes that are in the airing cupboard. Its causing our ceiling to fall apart in small chunks. *sigh* just what I wanted when I came back from work!!!

We've had a look up there and we cant really see much as it disappears upwards (and because we cant look up because of the hot dripping water!!!!).

We went upstairs to ask the people who live there, but their airing cupboard and pipes are bone dry.

Can anyone help as to who would have to do the repairs? And any tips on damage control for our airing cupboard???

Many thanks in advance

AdmiralX

imnotadt wrote: »

Hi guys,

Little but of help would be appreciated.

My boyfriend and I live in a flat where we own 75%. All the flats have exactly the same layout.

We've discovered that there is a leak of really hot water coming down on the outside of the waste pipes that are in the airing cupboard. Its causing our ceiling to fall apart in small chunks. *sigh* just what I wanted when I came back from work!!!

We've had a look up there and we cant really see much as it disappears upwards (and because we cant look up because of the hot dripping water!!!!).

We went upstairs to ask the people who live there, but their airing cupboard and pipes are bone dry.

Can anyone help as to who would have to do the repairs? And any tips on damage control for our airing cupboard???

Many thanks in advance

Contact the insurance of your building/flat: they help to trace the source of water escape, we have such a term in our policy wording.

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Canucklehead

Hi.

Is this a constant drip?

How is your hot water produced? Combi?

First thought was Temperature, Pressure relief valve if you have unvented hot water systems.

Failed pipe joint.

In any event either you will need to take some ceiling down, or your neighbour will need to take some floor up to find where it's coming from.

If you don't then any plumber /builder or whatever will do it when they arrive. How long can you wait?

You could ask the neighbour to turn their mains water stopcock off, that should stop it. Not sure how long they would tolerate that.

GSR.

vax2002

You will own the 75% thats responsible for the repair bills, you can guarantee that !

mart.vader

imnotadt wrote: »

We've discovered that there is a leak of really hot water coming down on the outside of the waste pipes that are in the airing cupboard.

I note you say "waste pipes" rather than "water pipes" . It would be very unusual to find waste pipes in an airing cupboard. (though anything's possible) If you don't have DIY skills, your best bet is to get a plumber in, which you will probably have to pay for.

Whether you manage to get your costs refunded, depends on, whose pipes are leaking, and whether or not, you or your upstairs neighbours have insurance.

I doubt that your insurance co, (if you have one) will respond quickly enough, that's why you need a reliable plumber to find the source of the leak and fix it.

pinkteapot

I assume it's a leasehold flat. If so, you may or may not have contents insurance, but you won't have buildings insurance (which is what this would be covered under). Some buildings insurance policies have home emergency cover (i.e. calling out a plumber because of a leak) but it's unlikely a freeholder would have paid extra for such cover. In the absence of any sort of home emergency cover, you need to call out a plumber and get the leak dealt with.

Your contents insurance may or may not cover consequential damage to your belongings (depending on what cover you have).