Leaks in the pipes

Sunday morning I walked out into our living room and discovered what appeared to be a water stain coming from under the baseboards. I immediately called the property management and advised them that there was an apparent leak in the wall. They sent out contractors that afternoon who said we definitely had a leak and they needed to get authorization from the owners before they did anything.

They finally got authorization last night so today they came in and ripped out the bathroom counter and sink, ripped up some floorboards and cut a few holes in the wall. Long story short the leak is not at the joint there in the bathroom. Our pipes are in the concrete and the water from the leak (wherever it is) is following the pipes and and coming up there, but that is not the leak.

We are now waiting for the insurance adjuster to come out and determine if they are going to re-pipe the entire house running the new pipes overhead rather than in the concrete or if they are just going to rip up the concrete till they find the leak and plug it. Either way we are going to be inconvenienced for a number of days while they fix this issue.

This is where our bathroom sink/counter used to be


This is the entrance to our bathroom. As you can see the dark spots are where the concrete is wet from the leak.


Looking at our bathroom from the livingroom


This is our living room where they stopped (for now) ripping up our floor


Our sink, counter and floor now sits in a pile out on our front porch


For now we are just very glad to be renting, assuming the owner does the right thing and restores the house to its pre-water damage condition.