Leaking Pipe

[AUSG 0]

I have a pipe in my master bedroom toilet that is leaking. The pipe is a branch pipe leading from the ceiling down to my toilet, and it takes a 90 degrees bend and goes into the toilet wall. It extends through the wall to the kitchen toilet.

I believe the pipe from the ceiling carries human waste from the toilet bowl from the unit above mine. It is currently leaking at the part where it enters the wall at the master bedroom toilet wall, on its way to the kitchen toilet.

i cannot determine if the leak is just before it enters the toilet wall, or if it is actually leaking into the wall itself and the "leak" is actually coming out of the toilet wall.

I have called HDB but they cannot help, beyond suggesting asking for a contractor to put cement on the part where the pipe enters the wall, to see if the leaking can be prevented. The other option according to them, is to hack the wall if we really want to find the leak.

I am trying to see if there is an alternative to hacking the wall, if we want to find the leak and fix it.

does anyone have a similar experience?

Thank you.

Edited October 7, 2014 by AUSG

[leejc 0]

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[w7_lee 11]

I am not too sure how the piping is (base on your description) but I think you can investigate if the leak is coming from the 90degree elbow joint.

I had this in my bathroom 2 or 3 years back. It was the drain from the sink (of the unit above mine). I spend some time trying to find the leak... had to wait till my upstairs neighbor was using the sink and quickly climb on my ladder and using a torchlight, look for where water is seaping out. Found the leak at the 90 degree joint with the straight pipe.

I bought a can of pipe glue and apply it on the joint. I did it for over a week, every night when I know that the neighbor had gone to bed and unlikely to be washing hands. In the middle of the night when I woke up to relieve myself, I also climb onto my ladder and apply again. The leak stop but I think it will come back again.

By the way, did the HDB come over to have a look or did they just give you advice over the phone?

[WordSmith 45]

I am not too sure how the piping is (base on your description) but I think you can investigate if the leak is coming from the 90degree elbow joint. I had this in my bathroom 2 or 3 years back. It was the drain from the sink (of the unit above mine). I spend some time trying to find the leak... had to wait till my upstairs neighbor was using the sink and quickly climb on my ladder and using a torchlight, look for where water is seaping out. Found the leak at the 90 degree joint with the straight pipe. I bought a can of pipe glue and apply it on the joint. I did it for over a week, every night when I know that the neighbor had gone to bed and unlikely to be washing hands. In the middle of the night when I woke up to relieve myself, I also climb onto my ladder and apply again. The leak stop but I think it will come back again. By the way, did the HDB come over to have a look or did they just give you advice over the phone?

any update bro on your leak?