There is water slowly oozing out of the grout seam where the front outside wall of my house meets my front outside entryway slab.
That slab is actually 3 inches below the slab that the interior of my house sits on. This maybe why none of that water is getting inside.
My first inclination was plumbing leak. So I called an "expert" in leak detection. He broke the wall where the main feed comes into the house to see if the leak was there (that location is 2’ away from where the water is coming from.) No sign of leak.
He said it is under the slab somewhere. A leaky pipe he said. He explained how with his equipment he will find out which pipe and bypass it, running a new pipe through the attic. Big $$
This made sense until he left. I did my own research of how to read our water meter (my leak expert never looked at it). I have been monitoring the water meter. Once at bedtime and once in the morning. Each reading 10-12 hours apart. Every reading for the past week has shown that the meter has not moved even 1/10 gal in that 10 to 12 hour time span.
It rained only 1 day in the past 10 and that was 4 days ago. Yet the water is oozing again, since at least this morning.
Has anyone a clue where the water is coming from ?
That slab is actually 3 inches below the slab that the interior of my house sits on. This maybe why none of that water is getting inside.
My first inclination was plumbing leak. So I called an "expert" in leak detection. He broke the wall where the main feed comes into the house to see if the leak was there (that location is 2’ away from where the water is coming from.) No sign of leak.
He said it is under the slab somewhere. A leaky pipe he said. He explained how with his equipment he will find out which pipe and bypass it, running a new pipe through the attic. Big $$
This made sense until he left. I did my own research of how to read our water meter (my leak expert never looked at it). I have been monitoring the water meter. Once at bedtime and once in the morning. Each reading 10-12 hours apart. Every reading for the past week has shown that the meter has not moved even 1/10 gal in that 10 to 12 hour time span.
It rained only 1 day in the past 10 and that was 4 days ago. Yet the water is oozing again, since at least this morning.
Has anyone a clue where the water is coming from ?