Peafarmer
New Member
Hi, I have been chasing this problem for around three weeks now. A leak developed underneath kitchen sink cabinet, between the cabinet floor and the subfloor. We noticed water on the wall and ceiling of the finished basement below.
I have replaced this piping twice now, and each time a leak developed within days of installing the new pipe. This is the hot water side, so there is a Tee inside the cabinet to supply the hot faucet line and the dishwasher line. I am not the best at sweating pipe, but the solder joints for the Tee are visible and are not leaking. So, the leak is in the straight, new pipe from the Tee down to the pipe in the basement ceiling.
I used a sharkbite flex to connect the horizontal pipe run to the manifold that I created for the repair. I did this because I have had trouble getting all the water out of horizontal lines in the past. There are no leaks at the sharkbite connections.
I was so exasperated that after this second failure I decided to install the leaky manifold to the sharkbite flex and temporarily place it above the basement ceiling so that I could see where it was leaking. I have had it installed like this for a couple of hours now, and there is no leak in this test configuration.
Has anybody seen such a problem? I will not try to re-install this suspect pipe, but I want to understand why the pipe could be failing before my third attempt....
Thanks,
Andy
I have replaced this piping twice now, and each time a leak developed within days of installing the new pipe. This is the hot water side, so there is a Tee inside the cabinet to supply the hot faucet line and the dishwasher line. I am not the best at sweating pipe, but the solder joints for the Tee are visible and are not leaking. So, the leak is in the straight, new pipe from the Tee down to the pipe in the basement ceiling.
I used a sharkbite flex to connect the horizontal pipe run to the manifold that I created for the repair. I did this because I have had trouble getting all the water out of horizontal lines in the past. There are no leaks at the sharkbite connections.
I was so exasperated that after this second failure I decided to install the leaky manifold to the sharkbite flex and temporarily place it above the basement ceiling so that I could see where it was leaking. I have had it installed like this for a couple of hours now, and there is no leak in this test configuration.
Has anybody seen such a problem? I will not try to re-install this suspect pipe, but I want to understand why the pipe could be failing before my third attempt....
Thanks,
Andy
