Water leaking from wall and onto carpet below.

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Terry

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Yep, got the call about the dreaded water on the carpet, with a slightly moist wall. I checked things with my moisture meter and the wall board wasn't too bad. Really almost dry in fact. The carpet below was wet, up against an outside wall with four feet of backfilled dirt on the high side of the home. There had already been some floor drainage work done for water seeping up from the floor.

I pulled the panel from the wall and found this.
Water on carpet, leak in wall, cracked pipe.

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This is for the upstairs kitchen sink and to the left a bathroom lav. It was pretty wet on the rim joist.

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I could feel it being damp on the backside fitting facing away from me. I decided to cut out the 45 and replace it.

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The new pipe and fitting in place.

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The pipe was cracked here. It looks pretty bad when you spread the pipe apart.

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And you can see the sludge from the kitchen sink on the back side that wasn't visible from my side.

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How it looked when finished.
 
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