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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
f/u to leaking ceiling - and a PSA
It turns out the leak was bc the caulk around the base of our toilet was gone, baby, gone. I have NO idea what the maids were doing to cause the leak (bc I only found it by pouring water directly on the spot) but in perverse way it's good it was found now, right?
So my PSA is -- go home and check your caulk. and re-caulk if needed. Or be like me, with all of your wine glasses on your dining room table (srsly, we could drink out of a diff one every night for a month) and two cabinets down and a big honkin' hole in your kitchen ceiling and fussing at your H when is it going to be fixed.
I figure if we can't share our homeowner learnings here, where can we?
Pam and John
"What is a week-end?"
"What is a week-end?"
Re: f/u to leaking ceiling - and a PSA
I definitely missed your original post but I was always taught not to caulk around a toilet because you would want the water to run out from the toilet onto the floor of the bathroom and not under the toilet and through the ceiling. You probably need a new wax mounting gasket if you have a leak. Unless it's the toilet itself, which, obviously, is a completely different issue.
This is what Mike Holmes taught me.
That's more or less what my dad tried to tell me when we were seeing water seeping around the base of one of our toilets. He had a hardware store for decades and specialized in plumbing, so I figure he knows what he's talking about (at least in this case).
It was not the wax ring (we replaced that, too, but it was not the issue in this toilet) and there were no cracks in the toilet itself. Again, the only way we could replicate the leak was to pour water directly into the area at the base of the toilet (you'd get a leak if you flushed, if hte wax ring was the culprit) -- which was causing a leak into my kitchen ceiling. So for us, caulk solved the leak, but I guess I could have been more clear in my PSA.
"What is a week-end?"