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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Hoping someone has a line on a good person to call about this. I noticed this morning that there's a line about 3 feet long and 4 inches wide of discoloration in my ceiling on the main floor of my house. Got up on a stepladder and while it's not soggy or dripping, it is cold and slightly damp. So I shut off my water and drained the pipes, and confirmed with my insurance that it's covered. All good so far - hopefully just a minor slow leak.
Next step is getting someone to do an estimate, so off to CP I go for the brain trust here. Who in town do people trust to do this sort of thing, and are there any spots that people know of that do free estimates? I'm not going to initiate a claim and jack up my home insurance premium if the ultimate cost to repair this is in the ballpark of my deductible anyway, so I want to find out what I'm looking at.
Really annoying to have this happen in a fairly new (just over 5 year old) building, but I guess it could be worse, or it could have happened when I was away, or something like that.
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I always try to work out what the problem is first before I call a plumber, I really dont want to pay him 200 bucks to be fishing around in the walls trying to work out what is leaking and if it isnt a pipe under pressure then it only leaks randomly and is really hard to isolate, had a similar problem, turned out the tap plate in the shower had loosened and a bit of water was getting in around the taps, but with 3 or 4 kids in the house even the smallest leak built up quickly, cut out an access point behind taps to confirm that was the problem then reseated the plate myself for free, problem solved