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[email protected] April 25th 08 12:17 PM

Water leak
 
Outside house, coming down from soffit over back door. No leak in
house???
Any suggestions, where to look? Who to call to look?

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.


Norminn April 25th 08 12:34 PM

Water leak
 
wrote:

Outside house, coming down from soffit over back door. No leak in
house???
Any suggestions, where to look? Who to call to look?

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.



Where located? Snow on roof? Is there a second story above the door?
Plumbing?
One guess, without sufficient information, is gutters
are full and rain water splashes back under roofing. Or an ice dam on
the roof.

Dave Bugg April 25th 08 09:02 PM

Water leak
 
wrote:
Outside house, coming down from soffit over back door. No leak in
house???
Any suggestions, where to look? Who to call to look?

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.


Is this a mutated form of haiku, or a real problem?

--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

What is best in life? "To crush your enemies, see them driven before
you, and to hear the lamentation of the women." -- Conan



[email protected] April 26th 08 06:59 AM

Water leak
 
This is a real problem. No snow or rain on roof, gutters not blocked.
Above back door is bedroom and bathroom. No water used for a week but
still have a water leak dripping down from soffit. Had compleat roofing
torn off and new roof installed, no sign of water up there. HELP
P.S. It hasnt rained for 2 weeks.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.


Smitty Two April 26th 08 07:44 AM

Water leak
 
In article ,
wrote:

This is a real problem. No snow or rain on roof, gutters not blocked.
Above back door is bedroom and bathroom. No water used for a week but
still have a water leak dripping down from soffit. Had compleat roofing
torn off and new roof installed, no sign of water up there. HELP
P.S. It hasnt rained for 2 weeks.



Thank god we finally have someone with a real problem. All these fake
problems have become a major annoyance.

BobK207 April 26th 08 08:44 AM

Water leak
 
On Apr 25, 9:59*pm, wrote:
This is a real problem. *No snow or rain on roof, gutters not blocked.
Above back door is bedroom and bathroom. *No water used for a week but
still have a water leak dripping down from soffit. *Had compleat roofing
torn off and new roof installed, no sign of water up there. *HELP
P.S. *It hasnt rained for 2 weeks.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.


OP-

Please read your first & second post as if you knew nothing about the
situation.

As person trying to make meaning from those posts, could you get a
clear picture of the situation from those posts alone?

Getting a good answer requires that you accurately describe the
situation.

where is the house? age of house? age of plumbing? recent freeze?
recent work? how about a picture?

"No water used for a week " really?

Turn off the supply to the upstairs (or whole house if not possible to
isolate upstairs) & see if the leak stops.

If that stops the dripping you probably have a fresh water
leak.....time to expose the pipes & look for the source of the leak.

cheers
Bob

Banty April 26th 08 02:13 PM

Water leak
 
In article ,
says...

This is a real problem. No snow or rain on roof, gutters not blocked.
Above back door is bedroom and bathroom. No water used for a week but
still have a water leak dripping down from soffit. Had compleat roofing
torn off and new roof installed, no sign of water up there. HELP
P.S. It hasnt rained for 2 weeks.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.


Did this start after the new roofing job, which presumably meant new gutters
were installed or they were removed and placed back?

Even if it hasn't rained for two weeks, if a gutter is pitched wrong or
insufficiently pitched, it may drip. Either from the outer edge or a corner of
the gutter (I actually have that at the moment, the installer is going to return
and set up with an added downspout), or into the soffit box where you see the
drip.

Banty


cshenk April 26th 08 06:07 PM

Water leak
 
wrote

This is a real problem. No snow or rain on roof, gutters not blocked.
Above back door is bedroom and bathroom. No water used for a week but

^^^^^^^^
still have a water leak dripping down from soffit. Had compleat roofing
torn off and new roof installed, no sign of water up there. HELP
P.S. It hasnt rained for 2 weeks.


Check pipes. They are sometimes run overhead. I have that in my laundry
area.



Moe Jones April 27th 08 11:06 PM

Water leak
 
wrote:
This is a real problem. No snow or rain on roof, gutters not blocked.
Above back door is bedroom and bathroom. No water used for a week but
still have a water leak dripping down from soffit. Had compleat
roofing torn off and new roof installed, no sign of water up there.
HELP
P.S. It hasnt rained for 2 weeks.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.


What about your A/C? It could be condensation water.
--
Moe Jones
http://www.MoeJones.info




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