Plumbing advice

SteveDallas · 04-18-2006, 01:09 PM

Plumbing is technology, right? Anyway, Home Base is.. well... crowded.

So my kitchen ceiling is leaking a bit. And it was happening whenever anybody took a shower. So after a bit of poking around I discovered that the source of the problem is the cold water faucet in the bathtub. The pipe connection between the water supply and the faucet assembly is letting out almost as much water as is going in the tub itself. (OK, that's an exaggeration or the whole kitchen would have been flooded....)

Now, given that this stuff shows all appearances of having been installed when the house was built (mid 1950s) the smart thing to do seems obvious... rip out the whole faucet and replace with a nice modern washerless one. And that's exactly what I'd do if I knew how, but I know I'd screw it up.

The thing is, I don't feel like calling a plumber for this. We were already planning to redo the whole bathroom in about a month or so. But we don't have our act together (in terms of organization or in terms of lining up the cash) to go ahead and start that right now. So my question is, is there any way (pipe dope? something else?) that I could just do a quick & dirty patch that I could expect to hold up for 4-5 weeks?

04-18-2006, 01:09 PM	#1
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Plumbing advice Plumbing is technology, right? Anyway, Home Base is.. well... crowded. So my kitchen ceiling is leaking a bit. And it was happening whenever anybody took a shower. So after a bit of poking around I discovered that the source of the problem is the cold water faucet in the bathtub. The pipe connection between the water supply and the faucet assembly is letting out almost as much water as is going in the tub itself. (OK, that's an exaggeration or the whole kitchen would have been flooded....) Now, given that this stuff shows all appearances of having been installed when the house was built (mid 1950s) the smart thing to do seems obvious... rip out the whole faucet and replace with a nice modern washerless one. And that's exactly what I'd do if I knew how, but I know I'd screw it up. The thing is, I don't feel like calling a plumber for this. We were already planning to redo the whole bathroom in about a month or so. But we don't have our act together (in terms of organization or in terms of lining up the cash) to go ahead and start that right now. So my question is, is there any way (pipe dope? something else?) that I could just do a quick & dirty patch that I could expect to hold up for 4-5 weeks?

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