Tracking Down Plumbing Leaks Inside Walls : Plumbing Repair

You find leaks? OKay i need a 6-story apartment complex plumbing test on PVC for city inspection, no cant use water, the inspector wants the gauges on the 1st floor sink stub-outs holding 5-lbs for 30-minutes

THis vid is 2013. I'm sure now in 2023, there are tools to find the pipes in the wall just like how a stud finder or any kind of detector like that works. Copper isnt magnetic I don't think so that wouldnt work but it is metal and as such, a metal detector (those have been around for countless decades) would probably locate the pipes. Just my layman's guess. You wouldn't need to hack up the wall randomly.

Don’t we need to turn off electric mail to this area!!! I’d hate to cut through a live wire

I can hear water dripping inside my basement wall coming from kitchen sink every time we used it the water sound like splashing down there and my floor is flooding now. How to fix this it’s behind my wood wall.

How about leaks from cement wall?

Why is a lighting contractor teaching a plumbers job? 🤔 j/k. I’m an electrician about to tear my wall up to try and find a leak from the washer 😢

Ok, you said how to locate a leak, but absolutely NOTHING about stopping it or repairing it.

Can i delete this video?

WATER DOES NOT ALWAYS RUN DOWN HILL !!! WHEN IT RAINS TAKE YOUR CAR OUT AND SEE WHICH WAY IT RUNS AT 60 MPH !!!!!!!!!!!!

ok - that did not help much - that is just ONE situation - there are hundreds and when you don't even know where the leak is - I have a leak that starts on the third floor and drips down to the basement ceiling - Good luck finding that - thank God it is not supplied line leak, but a faucet leak when it gets used.

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Our wall is solid concrete any advice.

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waste of time

Huh?

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Awesome thanks!

So could be anywhere, but worst case scenario, just cut my wall off and I'll find it, right?

This video didn't teach me jack shit. Utterly useless.

No no no eHow 😂 😂 what is this? We know gravity would pull the water down. But we came here to see HOW to fix the problem! The guy was cool in his explanation of how gravity works though 😁

this guy is useless as fuck, just like 99% of ehow videos are lmao

you know more than that yo, pls share more useful insights. .

Absolutely useless content ..

I have brick wall not dry wall

I know this is an older video but thanks a bunch man!!! Made it easier to find the source even though after I watched it i felt kinda dumb bc its common sense that water will run down hahaha o

Thank you, now I know gravity pulls down water.

I have seen water from the actual spot of the leak travel across the ceiling undetected and run down in a completely opposite room, leaks are the worst, we have one have been chasing for years and still can't find the source.

Bitch, cut the wall and show us lol

One of the ways to locate metallic pipes inside or behind the wall is to use a metal detector of some sort.

Useless!!!

Good video Josh with useful insights, thanks.

jajaja. Needs more info but was useful. Thanks Josh

Hmmm... problem is, no one has just plain bare walls with fixtures, all the way down to the floor! Pipes generally run adjacent to appliances and fixtures so, your staged and simplistic video teaches us very little.

How is this useful....?

lololololol.wtf that was I agree...useless..

useless