Kstuart
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This is a question for professional plumbers only, please thanks.
Suppose a home with an attached garage, and the gas water heater is in a closet in the garage.
One morning, the resident finds about a half gallon of water on the garage floor, that has seeped out from the bottom of the water heater closet. The hot and cold lines to the water heater disappear in the back wall of the closet. The temp-pressure relief valve is piped into a side wall of the water heater closet, and exits that wall at a point just outside the closet onto a point over a sheet of linoleum next to the water heater closet, and the top of the linoleum seems dry. The interior of the water heater closet seems dry and the exterior of the water heater seems dry. The water heater sits in a pan which seems dry.
With every water appliance unused for ten minutes, the water meter does not move at all.
The resident mops up, but every time they check (every 4-6 hours), there is more water.
The water heater was installed about 18 months ago ( immediately prior to putting the house for sale, which took 9 months during which the house was vacant ).
As a plumber, how do you proceed ?
Suppose a home with an attached garage, and the gas water heater is in a closet in the garage.
One morning, the resident finds about a half gallon of water on the garage floor, that has seeped out from the bottom of the water heater closet. The hot and cold lines to the water heater disappear in the back wall of the closet. The temp-pressure relief valve is piped into a side wall of the water heater closet, and exits that wall at a point just outside the closet onto a point over a sheet of linoleum next to the water heater closet, and the top of the linoleum seems dry. The interior of the water heater closet seems dry and the exterior of the water heater seems dry. The water heater sits in a pan which seems dry.
With every water appliance unused for ten minutes, the water meter does not move at all.
The resident mops up, but every time they check (every 4-6 hours), there is more water.
The water heater was installed about 18 months ago ( immediately prior to putting the house for sale, which took 9 months during which the house was vacant ).
As a plumber, how do you proceed ?