Broken Bathtub

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Has anybody seen a broken bathtub as shown in the picture? Was this caused on installation? If you've seen this before, was water damage involved?
 

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That is the overflow for the tub. What part is broken?
There is a rubber seal between the tub and the drain that should catch water when the tub reaches overflow levels.
 

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It is cracked on the left and it was "temporarily fixed" by a warranty plumber. I'm interested to see if there are many plumbers out there that have seen something like this? Several homes in our neighborhood have had this issue.
 

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Cheap steel tubs, thin enamel. The enamel will crack and fall off with the slightest tightening of the overflow screws. I've
seen it/done it a dozen times. You can choose between cracked enamel and eventual rust, or an overflow
that leaks because it can not be tightened up to the tub.
 

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Cheap steel tubs, thin enamel. The enamel will crack and fall off with the slightest tightening of the overflow screws. I've
seen it/done it a dozen times. You can choose between cracked enamel and eventual rust, or an overflow
that leaks because it can not be tightened up to the tub.

So if water was to leak around the overflow, rather than through the overflow, water would hit the subfloor and then spread? We had water leak into our kitchen below the bathtub, but the interesting thing was that our carpet in the master bedroom right at the doorway into the bathroom gradually became more and more wet throughout the evening. Is it possible that the water went underneath the tub and then spread under the flooring, causing our carpet to gradually get more and more wet?
 
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