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Please help. i have a odd leak around my window that seems to have no origin.I know this is impossible but there's no condensation and it hasn't rained in a week. there is a slow drip of water running down the centre of the kitchen window frame window shuts it's then pooling on the outside cill and then dripping onto the slabs outside. i turned off the mains and went to work and contacted my home emergency insurers who weren't interested because there isn't any damage. i then asked a builder friend to pop around after work. Obviously, as the water had been turned off all day, there was no drip and the damp patch on the slabs had dried up over the course of the day. i turned the water back on and nothing happened. he hung around for 30 mins or so to check the pipes in the bathroom which is directly above kitchen. Took the bath panel off to have a look nothing! all the rest of the pipework in the bathroom is exposed and there was nothing. The soil waste pipe is blocked in so this couldn;t be checked. any hoo, as nothing was happening, i kind of hoped it had all been a bit of a one off (lol). later that evening i went outside and there it was again, no rain, no condensation, just this slow drip coming of the cill. i then realised i had an additional insurance with homeserve and called them the following morning. they were great and said they'd send a plumber around but i was to turn the water off. i tried to explain it need to stay on so the plumber could actually see the drip but they were insistent i turn it off. i took a photo of the damp patch as i knew there would be nothing when he turned up. Plumber turns up at 3pm and sure enough, no leak or damp patch. i was able to show him a picture of the damp patch i had taken that morning. he was really helpful and checked my internal pipework and watched my water meter for any signs of a leak and could find none. He was adamant it was not a plumbing issue but was genuinely as confused as me. We spent ages discussing possible causes but nothing makes sense. Apart from the fact it hasn't rain in week and there's no condensation, there is no plumbing higher than the bathroom as i don't have a water tank in the loft and no central heating system. the only pipe work is at the back of the house around the kitchen and bathroom.
has anyone got any ideas??? i've spent most of the night trawling the internet but can't find anything even remotely similar to my problem.
i'm thinking it must have something to do with the toilet and the soil stack but, if that was the case, the water would have to travel horizontally to be able to pop out around my kitchen window frame. don't know what to do and really worried as i don't have much money and it's beginning to look like wall's are going have to be cut into to find out what's going on.
any advice would be appreciated, many thanks Jo
has anyone got any ideas??? i've spent most of the night trawling the internet but can't find anything even remotely similar to my problem.
i'm thinking it must have something to do with the toilet and the soil stack but, if that was the case, the water would have to travel horizontally to be able to pop out around my kitchen window frame. don't know what to do and really worried as i don't have much money and it's beginning to look like wall's are going have to be cut into to find out what's going on.
any advice would be appreciated, many thanks Jo
