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Shower Leak Troubleshooting For Finding Your Water Leak!

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What happens here

Since the leak source wasn't fully identifiable without opening the wall, measure and mark a rectangular section of the drywall behind the shower valve. Use a utility knife to score the marked lines, then use a hammer or other tools to carefully break and remove the drywall section. This creates an access panel, allowing full visual and physical access to the plumbing behind the shower wall. Once the wall is open, a SharkBite fitting connected to a PEX pipe is revealed to be the source of the leak, dripping water when the shower is activated.

Tools and materials

  • Hammer
  • Level
  • Pencil
  • Tape Measure
  • Utility Knife

What they say

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wall of a shower so upon a measurement it's a bummer that this is actually it's pretty much right on that corner indeed so I'm just going to come off of this a little bit that way we can make a patch and hopefully I can get into it at an angle try to go as dustless as I possibly can here this is a bummer this right here is one of those scenarios big no no definitely all SharkBite fittings which is a bummer bummer bummer all right yeah that's sucky all right so what I'm going to have you do so you don't mind go over there and turn your shower on and let's let it run and we'll just see exactly what is actually leaking right here there we go oh yeah yeah right there in that shirt plate fitting such a bummer I know that they're approved for in the wall but dude I mean it could be too short it could be something jacked up but man it just is not a good setup

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