Feb 17, 2017
Where has our shower water drained to?
A few nights ago I noticed that our tile floor next to the shower was wet. It was not supposed to be. Same thing the next evening just after our showers. So we started to check things out.
Looks like we have a severed pipe.
When did it happen? No idea. How long have we been draining our shower water along the floor boards? How bad is it? Will our tile floor come up? Do we have mold? Well not so far. So we set a fan to blow directly on the area. After 3 days it is still somewhat wet. Of course the first thing we did was get in contact with our super RV tech, Erik. He came the very next day. This was deemed to be an emergency.
Quite the challenge, working in such a tiny area.
This could have happened last year or very recently, no idea whatsoever but the pipe was definitely in two pieces.
The fix was a new white pipe connected to the grey flexible joint shown between the two clamps. Apparently the original pipes did not exactly match up which might have led to the break. I think that we have done very well considering our RV was built in 2001.
All I can say is how very lucky we are to have an RV tech in the area here in Mexico. Erik even checked under the shower where the grey tank is and there was no evidence of excess water sitting on top of the tank. I’m sure that many will be upset with me but I told Erik that he should charge extra for emergency visits. After all he does have to delay another client to handle the urgent matter.
When something like this happens, I always wonder what else is happening here in the RV that we don’t know about 😥
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Nice to get that job all fixed up hopefully before to much more damage is done.
We were very fortunate to catch it when we did.
Your RV is like a minihome, and all homes new or old have issues. Yes, you are very lucky to have someone like him to call on 🙂 Glad your damage was not worse. Enough with water leaks!
Yes it is like a home and even worse it is on wheels so things happen more often due to all the shaking up.