If you don’t have another story below you need to do concrete work instead of drywall. I guess better than damage to the kitchen cabinets and wooden flooring. Still I like the space that stories give.
Thanks for the reminder that getting even small details right matter when doing any project. Luckily, the consequences of someone's careless error was limited to fairly simple repairs. Jess
It feels like sometimes home owner / DYI has a negative connotation in the trades, but seriously, it doesn't seem like "professional" work is any guarantee either. I really feel like these days more and more home owners have to learn how to do this stuff, because I've found all sorts of "quirks" around my 5 year old home. Really cool watching you diagnose the problem. Good stuff.
Yeah exactly. If you act truly confident in your ability to understand and tackle the project after thorough research, I say it's always worth the time and effort to learn it yourself. Alot of things can be done pretty easily with just a bit of patience
@@Smeltz247 And you're dumb enough to buy a house instead of building one yourself, or paying a surgeon when you could perform medical procedures on yourself.
Who is to say Zack isn’t a professional? He seems to have been doing stuff like this all his life. This is probably one of the easier things he’s had to fix
I did this same repair with a shower with nothing but a cement slab underneath. Not a fun experience! Your drywall repair skills are really good by the way. Looks like new!
Nice job! That plumbers putty shrinks over time. It's not a good structural member- wasnt' designed to resist sideways forces. I did that repair on the tub and three sinks at my old (1957) house you've been to.
It's weird that they installed the bathtub without an access panel on the wall behind it. I thought that was standard practice. But I guess if they're using plumber's putty as thread tape, they're probably doing some other weird things.
Good thing you took action for it quickly. My family actually had the same thing happen a few years ago- leaking bathtub drain, water leaked into light fixture on room below. We waited too long and the drywall in the ceiling collapsed. Glad this didnt happen to you!
Got the same issue but because the wind took off some decoratives planks outsides, that created a hole and when it was raining all the water would go out through the lamp of the kitchen The endoscope is a pretty good idea to see what’s happening, thanks !
Wow I have the same features as you and I found a quick fix for it, it's just a good old bucket under it, it's saves water so you can water plants and stops water from running around the house
First I'm a Master Plumber over 10 years experience and we dont use plumbers putty very much any more clear silicone GE is the best solution and you wont have that problem. Also dont know if you used tape on the drywall fox but I'd recommend it sometimes it will crack if not used just saying.
This is a helpful video. I had an identical bathtub leak last year. I went with a thicker silicone gasket from Home Depot and that solved my issue. Though I was lucky that the room it leaked into was another bathroom, so I installed a flush utility door and mounted a smart water sensor on the inside. No issues since!
I feel for you. We had the same but the contractor ripped up the entire ceiling of our 1st floor living room and left it that way for 8 months before it was fixed. Wish we had a competent calm friend like you to diagnosis it at the time!
We've had issues with the toilet and bathtub drain above our dining room. We had access panels installed below the tubs drain and the toilet so that if we ever had any more leaks we could catch the drip in time.
The rental we have in cyprus gets water coming out the lights now and again after heavy rain, they are sealed conduits in poured concrete, and no idea where it comes from!
Now thats a feature nobody asked for but as we can see, suprprises come from many places. And i guess the plaster roof takes those scratches at level 1 and deeper ones at level 2 ;)
Woooowww!!! You know how useful it would be everyone made a video LIKE THIS everytime something weird broke we would all be 1998989 times more equip! So good! Thank you!!!
I think this literally just happened to me last night and your video just popped up in my feed... Thanks for the video! I'm definitely going to try this fix before doing anything crazy like I was planning haha.
PLEASE POST MORE ON THIS CHANNEL. I love your handyman fixer content. Your jerryrig content, hehe. Please post more to inspire me to be a better handier man.
I think if I saw that in my house I would have just started crying. Watching this made me feel like if you just keep a level head you can solve anything.
Man, most American houses are really build out of cardboard 😁. The combination with (on the other hand) full metal trucks just shy of being armored troop carriers is the thing that gets me the most 😉. Grat repair, as always! 😁👍
Same exact thing happened to me, the drain piece was plastic and I must have torqued it too hard and the plastic cracked so water was just leaking down under the lip. Never good having a waterfall in the living room. I made sure the replacement one was metal and full diameter so I didn't have to use the plastic thread extender
I am a plumber and the putty over time will not seal. And as you thread in the drain or waist part in the putty spreads to help seal. If men pee in shower or tub/shower it will eat away the putty.
Be glad that you aren’t in Europe… we had a similar issue but nearly all houses here are made out of concrete and it‘s really not fun to dry it using loud machines that run for 6 weeks straight…
This is a good example of bad trouble shooting a problem. Don’t start by cutting, check the tub first before cutting holes in the ceiling. Could have saved yourself a lot of trouble.
I just order that camera I can see how clean it is am hoping my eyes not fooling me I have two expensive one and it difficult to see things so am gonna Try this one it's on sale now for 48.98
Something very similar happened to me when I put in a new shower. Plumbed everything, tested it, no leaks. Tiled up the shower, a week later I look up and my light fixture in my kitchen is half filled with water. It ended up being the opening for the bath that was capped off, because its only a shower, sprung a leak after a long shower. Thankfully the other side of the dry wall in the shower is a closet in my spare bedroom and I was able to go in that way instead of tearing out the tile.
i dont know if the sequence of events was the same as it seemed in the video, but if anyone is opening up drywall for this kind of fix, when you are done you may want to take those 3 test baths BEFORE you put the drywall back up and mud and tape and texture and paint.
You forgot plumbers putty under the drain ring inside the tub… it’s gonna leak again guaranteed. Easy fix though unscrew it again and add the plumbers putty for a long term fix.
Considering the way the drain failed, unless that tub was installed after the house was built you should inspect every other tub drain. Mistakes like that tend to be a pattern.
Literally the exact same thing happened to us but onto the dining room table through the ceiling light. We used insurance to fix it and kinda wish we hadn’t. Took them months to fix. :/
Why did you dry wall patch that? I would have used an access panel. Way faster and in case it happened again, you could easily check it out in case of miss diagnosis.
You're gonna want to replace all the drywall that got wet. It will mold and cause breathing issues for you and possibly collapse in another location that was wet. I learned that one the hard way years ago.
you can be ok if you let it properly dry before patching it, I have let wet sheetrock sit for a while with fans going in the damaged areas before and its has been fine, you just don't want to seal it up while it is still wet
I dealt a view times with water damage. Normally you would let it dry for about 1-2 Weeks with a construction dryer. I would check for mold with your endoscope in the next 2 month.
I've fixed leaks like this a lot. I usually try to replace the tub drain first and avoid opening any holes because 90 percent of that time the issue is the tub drain.
Plumber here. It hurt watching you cut that sheetrock because I knew it was just the putty seal. However, I must say that was a really clean repair! Great job!!
i am not even a plumber or even part of any construction trade and it hurt me watching them cut the sheet rock knowing that it was the putty seal that failed
Always start with less aggressive diagnostic and testing. Definitely would have been better to inspect and try from the tub rather than just opening ceilings
Similar thing happened to me, but it was the diverter causing water to travel back through the pipe the water comes in by. Went down stairs after a shower one day and my light fixture was filled with water 😅
I had something similar happen to me. The shower drain got clogged with hair. I pushed something in to unclog it and my gf at the time finished her shower. The next day during her shower I go to do laundry and find a waterfall in my basement. The drain pipe had come out of the drain and so it was just draining straight into the basement.
Normal person: "Ah, sh*t... A leak... Now I gotta find out where it's from etc... " Zack: "Ouh, a leak! What a wonderful opportunity for a little JRE video!" Love it! 😀
This just happened to my Daughter in her New House as the brand new tub developed a hairline crack first time it was used .It was Actually it was over the kitchen and damage the ceiling and the floor in the same way Fortunately, the builder stepped up and payed for the repairs
@Mr.ZackNelson._ Hi I know in your videos you say to check for something and if it's not there it may not be you. What do I need to see to know I'm dealing with the real "Like a little Lego" Man himself?
Two years ago that happened to me but with an ethernet cable, I was so confused at first until I found that the pice of the run outside of my home was broken and water was getting inside of it
The tub at my parent's house has this exact problem where the light fixtures below leak water. But it only happens with the overflow drain so nobody takes baths in that tub. That's their solution.
I love that another guy with all the tools and ladders winds up standing on chairs for the projects. Makes me feel better
ladder's too far
chair's there
;)
See a doctor.
I agree
thats because jerry riggs everything and we want it up to code lol
these short form, smaller house projects are good viewing
Also good to cover the cost of repairs. Win win
If you don’t have another story below you need to do concrete work instead of drywall. I guess better than damage to the kitchen cabinets and wooden flooring. Still I like the space that stories give.
That’s hydro-power right there, isn’t it? 😁
I love how calm you remain throughout the entire problem solving process!
Ikr I’d be freaking out
are you supposed to be kicking and screaming the entire way?
Yeah I'm stressed just watching this 😅
That plumber is shitting bricks, you dont want to annoy agent 47
Thanks for the reminder that getting even small details right matter when doing any project. Luckily, the consequences of someone's careless error was limited to fairly simple repairs. Jess
100%. Shoddy craftsmanship and work ethic from the original plumber
Well that’s what you get with new construction homes. This isn’t the worst atrocity, believe me
It feels like sometimes home owner / DYI has a negative connotation in the trades, but seriously, it doesn't seem like "professional" work is any guarantee either. I really feel like these days more and more home owners have to learn how to do this stuff, because I've found all sorts of "quirks" around my 5 year old home. Really cool watching you diagnose the problem. Good stuff.
Yeah exactly. If you act truly confident in your ability to understand and tackle the project after thorough research, I say it's always worth the time and effort to learn it yourself. Alot of things can be done pretty easily with just a bit of patience
Professional just means your paid to do it. Doesn't mean you're good at it, just means there's someone dumb enough to pay you.
@@Smeltz247 as a plumber you’re not wrong lol
@@Smeltz247 And you're dumb enough to buy a house instead of building one yourself, or paying a surgeon when you could perform medical procedures on yourself.
Who is to say Zack isn’t a professional? He seems to have been doing stuff like this all his life. This is probably one of the easier things he’s had to fix
I did this same repair with a shower with nothing but a cement slab underneath. Not a fun experience! Your drywall repair skills are really good by the way. Looks like new!
I am a very “unhandy” homeowner, so I really value these videos. I am so appreciative when people share their knowledge of how to fix/repair things.
finally he remembered the password for this channel
I was today's years old when I found out there are drain wrenches. I have a broken sink drain that I can tackle now! Thanks, Zack, for your sacrifice.
Glad i could help!
Some times they don't work and you need to break the flange off with a screwdriver and the knock the threaded part off.
You still need a pair of channellocks or other slip-joint pliers for the bottom side.
My old one was the ones with the long screw in the middle. My newer one i just user pliers to twist.
Nice job! That plumbers putty shrinks over time. It's not a good structural member- wasnt' designed to resist sideways forces. I did that repair on the tub and three sinks at my old (1957) house you've been to.
It's alive.... It's aliiiiiive... the channel is still alive
I'm more amazed at no insulation in the floor, even if just for sound suppression.
yay, this channel is back, pls post more
It's weird that they installed the bathtub without an access panel on the wall behind it. I thought that was standard practice.
But I guess if they're using plumber's putty as thread tape, they're probably doing some other weird things.
not sure i've ever noticed an access panel for a bathtub, is that universal code, or local?
seems like an access panel is something to be added when you need it the first time
It's interesting to see that the bathtub drain goes straight into the floor, making the water lock inaccessible without cutting up the roof.
Good thing you took action for it quickly.
My family actually had the same thing happen a few years ago- leaking bathtub drain, water leaked into light fixture on room below. We waited too long and the drywall in the ceiling collapsed. Glad this didnt happen to you!
The water feature is a portable shower. So you don't have to go up stairs to take a shower. :D Great video.
Someone can have a bath upstairs while another has a shower downstairs, now that's efficiency!
@@devocracy1089 Showering with someones dirty water is the best am i right
Got the same issue but because the wind took off some decoratives planks outsides, that created a hole and when it was raining all the water would go out through the lamp of the kitchen
The endoscope is a pretty good idea to see what’s happening, thanks !
Wow I have the same features as you and I found a quick fix for it, it's just a good old bucket under it, it's saves water so you can water plants and stops water from running around the house
First I'm a Master Plumber over 10 years experience and we dont use plumbers putty very much any more clear silicone GE is the best solution and you wont have that problem. Also dont know if you used tape on the drywall fox but I'd recommend it sometimes it will crack if not used just saying.
This is a helpful video. I had an identical bathtub leak last year. I went with a thicker silicone gasket from Home Depot and that solved my issue. Though I was lucky that the room it leaked into was another bathroom, so I installed a flush utility door and mounted a smart water sensor on the inside. No issues since!
Excellent. We want more home repair videos from you Zack, please!
Thank you and greetings from Portugal.
You always have something to do when you own a house :)
I feel for you. We had the same but the contractor ripped up the entire ceiling of our 1st floor living room and left it that way for 8 months before it was fixed. Wish we had a competent calm friend like you to diagnosis it at the time!
I dont know if you noticed but, Zack was wearing a GOD Tier watch aka CASIO ❤
We've had issues with the toilet and bathtub drain above our dining room. We had access panels installed below the tubs drain and the toilet so that if we ever had any more leaks we could catch the drip in time.
The rental we have in cyprus gets water coming out the lights now and again after heavy rain, they are sealed conduits in poured concrete, and no idea where it comes from!
Oscillating power tools. Nice! Hopefully there wasn't too much damage.
This is exactly what happen in our house. thank you for this video.
Pretty much had the same issue this weekend. Show drain. Same thing
Awesome you did this yourself. You could've easily just called someone to fix it for you. Great work!
Now thats a feature nobody asked for but as we can see, suprprises come from many places. And i guess the plaster roof takes those scratches at level 1 and deeper ones at level 2 ;)
Woooowww!!! You know how useful it would be everyone made a video LIKE THIS everytime something weird broke we would all be 1998989 times more equip!
So good! Thank you!!!
is that baby #2 with the ultrasound on the fridge?
Ohhh you're good. Very good. Too good.
Love this
Idk why
I think this literally just happened to me last night and your video just popped up in my feed... Thanks for the video! I'm definitely going to try this fix before doing anything crazy like I was planning haha.
PLEASE POST MORE ON THIS CHANNEL. I love your handyman fixer content. Your jerryrig content, hehe. Please post more to inspire me to be a better handier man.
First time seeing this channel of yours Zack
I think if I saw that in my house I would have just started crying. Watching this made me feel like if you just keep a level head you can solve anything.
I just love how Cambry looks at you with ❤❤ eyes
Man, most American houses are really build out of cardboard 😁. The combination with (on the other hand) full metal trucks just shy of being armored troop carriers is the thing that gets me the most 😉. Grat repair, as always! 😁👍
You should do a video on mold. It would be very educational for you.
Same exact thing happened to me, the drain piece was plastic and I must have torqued it too hard and the plastic cracked so water was just leaking down under the lip. Never good having a waterfall in the living room. I made sure the replacement one was metal and full diameter so I didn't have to use the plastic thread extender
My old cast iron stack rusted out and I had water leaking through my microwave. Similar "huh" moment. That was a pain to fix.
I am a plumber and the putty over time will not seal. And as you thread in the drain or waist part in the putty spreads to help seal. If men pee in shower or tub/shower it will eat away the putty.
I was thinking what's Jerry up to now crazy lovely man, kitchen shower lamp lol
Great video! This was very helpful!
Watching this video reminded me, what happened to the log cabin you worked on years ago?
Be glad that you aren’t in Europe… we had a similar issue but nearly all houses here are made out of concrete and it‘s really not fun to dry it using loud machines that run for 6 weeks straight…
A lot of installs call for adhesive caulk instead of plumbers putty now because it can fail.
This is a good example of bad trouble shooting a problem.
Don’t start by cutting, check the tub first before cutting holes in the ceiling.
Could have saved yourself a lot of trouble.
Who do you call for this problem an electrician or a plumber
You call Jerry
I don't remember how old your kid is, but if we learn the kid's first words are "Lets get started" I'm gonna laugh.
I just order that camera I can see how clean it is am hoping my eyes not fooling me I have two expensive one and it difficult to see things so am gonna Try this one it's on sale now for 48.98
These are my favorite videos!
Don't open the ceiling. I know it's to late. Change that rubber gasket and use your plumbers putty for top flange.
Something very similar happened to me when I put in a new shower. Plumbed everything, tested it, no leaks. Tiled up the shower, a week later I look up and my light fixture in my kitchen is half filled with water. It ended up being the opening for the bath that was capped off, because its only a shower, sprung a leak after a long shower. Thankfully the other side of the dry wall in the shower is a closet in my spare bedroom and I was able to go in that way instead of tearing out the tile.
Nice patch work I must say though😀
i dont know if the sequence of events was the same as it seemed in the video, but if anyone is opening up drywall for this kind of fix, when you are done you may want to take those 3 test baths BEFORE you put the drywall back up and mud and tape and texture and paint.
You forgot plumbers putty under the drain ring inside the tub… it’s gonna leak again guaranteed. Easy fix though unscrew it again and add the plumbers putty for a long term fix.
I stopped using oscillating tools to cut, twice the time compared to a saw.
Considering the way the drain failed, unless that tub was installed after the house was built you should inspect every other tub drain. Mistakes like that tend to be a pattern.
Literally the exact same thing happened to us but onto the dining room table through the ceiling light. We used insurance to fix it and kinda wish we hadn’t. Took them months to fix. :/
Why did you dry wall patch that? I would have used an access panel. Way faster and in case it happened again, you could easily check it out in case of miss diagnosis.
You're gonna want to replace all the drywall that got wet. It will mold and cause breathing issues for you and possibly collapse in another location that was wet. I learned that one the hard way years ago.
I left the hole open for about 4 days before patching it. And here in utah it's super dry. I'm not too worried about it
you can be ok if you let it properly dry before patching it, I have let wet sheetrock sit for a while with fans going in the damaged areas before and its has been fine, you just don't want to seal it up while it is still wet
You need to be more worried
I dealt a view times with water damage. Normally you would let it dry for about 1-2 Weeks with a construction dryer. I would check for mold with your endoscope in the next 2 month.
LOL these houses in America are very funny. You can open the wall so easy. Try this in DE 😅
You have a second bloody channel!!!!!!!!
😯
Ooof. Yeah plumbers putty is not a viable replacement for pipe dope...
The mystery of the leaky lamp solved at last. 🤓👍🏽
I guess you went from having a TH-cam channel to having a You Tub channel. Very nice.
2:30 the moment you realize.. you didn't need to cut a hole in your ceiling T_T
3:30 however soggy drywall should always be replaced :)
This reminds me of the meme of 'A fan fell on my baby, lets take a picture for the internet!'.
I've fixed leaks like this a lot. I usually try to replace the tub drain first and avoid opening any holes because 90 percent of that time the issue is the tub drain.
Don’t look like a problem to me liquid cooled light great accidental invention.
Plumber here. It hurt watching you cut that sheetrock because I knew it was just the putty seal. However, I must say that was a really clean repair! Great job!!
i am not even a plumber or even part of any construction trade and it hurt me watching them cut the sheet rock knowing that it was the putty seal that failed
Ran romex wiring right next to the tub drain waste. That's a big No, No. Should of used BX cabling.
I never miss the snap !😎😎😎😎
Always start with less aggressive diagnostic and testing. Definitely would have been better to inspect and try from the tub rather than just opening ceilings
Always remove and replace the wet drywall. The last thing you want is toxic mold spores through your home.
Your right, but he also has a gaping hole from the tub down inside the ceiling. So it will grow mold regardless.
Similar thing happened to me, but it was the diverter causing water to travel back through the pipe the water comes in by. Went down stairs after a shower one day and my light fixture was filled with water 😅
I had something similar happen to me. The shower drain got clogged with hair. I pushed something in to unclog it and my gf at the time finished her shower. The next day during her shower I go to do laundry and find a waterfall in my basement. The drain pipe had come out of the drain and so it was just draining straight into the basement.
Water and Electricity together? Sounds like an @Electroboom video!
the popcorn on a not popcorn ceiling bothered me though :P
Normal person: "Ah, sh*t... A leak... Now I gotta find out where it's from etc... "
Zack: "Ouh, a leak! What a wonderful opportunity for a little JRE video!"
Love it! 😀
Just like me I rig up everything by myself good job my brother
I bet he’s glad when a problem developed so he can fix it
This just happened to my Daughter in her New House as the brand new tub developed a hairline crack first time it was used .It was
Actually it was over the kitchen and damage the ceiling and the floor in the same way
Fortunately, the builder stepped up and payed for the repairs
After a long time 🤩🌝
Thank you for waiting here all this time ;-)
USA quality home construction 😀
When he touched the gunk on the drain seam, I damn near threw up. I'd need a 2 inch thick pair of gloves to even go near that.
Oh that's not human gunk. It's plumbers putty. Very different.
@@JerryRigEverything even if it was human gunk sometimes you just have to man up. That's why they invented soap.
Gotta say i like watching Zack the handy man!
LEGO's are not water tight
What's the IP rating
Nice fix guys thanks
@Mr.ZackNelson._
Hi I know in your videos you say to check for something and if it's not there it may not be you. What do I need to see to know I'm dealing with the real "Like a little Lego" Man himself?
Hey I've got exactly the same water feature!
Two years ago that happened to me but with an ethernet cable, I was so confused at first until I found that the pice of the run outside of my home was broken and water was getting inside of it
My guy Remembered the Password...
i want more, this video was too short :(
Thank god y'all found that sooner than later 😂😂😂
Those cardboard US houses :D
The tub at my parent's house has this exact problem where the light fixtures below leak water. But it only happens with the overflow drain so nobody takes baths in that tub. That's their solution.