Water

[Denverdame]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.

[margaretmattson]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.Are you certain it is coming from the floor? Sometimes, the refrigerator will leave a puddle on the floor. Sometimes, coming from a leaky sink. Even a toilet that shares a kitchen wall.

[gorillarick]

Look for the easy things first. Open your cabinet under your sink. Take everything out and use the palm of your hand to check for wet or even damp. Feel the rear wall around and below the valves.
Not so easy, pull your refrigerator out and look for water, and on the wall behind.

Hoses from wall valves to where ever.

Worse scenario - I won't go there. If you can't find it, call a plumber. Water can do a lot of damage in a hurry. Mitigate

Water will travel downhill (might not seem like downhill), but can then show-up 5 or 20 feet away. This is very common with many floor coverings.

Laundry room - leaking washer, or faucets on the wall behind. Could also be a clogged laundry drain that only pukes when pumping out the tub.

[dewilson58]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.

Call Mike Scott Plumbing and quit wasting time on ToTV.

:ohdear:

[retiredguy123]

OP, if you really have water seeping from under your concrete slab floor, you should file a claim with your homeowner's insurance. Your policy should cover all costs associated with the leak detection, tear out work, and reconstruction work. The only thing it won't cover is the actual water pipe repair, which should be a relatively small cost.

[ThirdOfFive]

OP, if you really have water seeping from under your concrete slab floor, you should file a claim with your homeowner's insurance. Your policy should cover all costs associated with the leak detection, tear out work, and reconstruction work. The only thing it won't cover is the actual water pipe repair, which should be a relatively small cost.
True.

However I would add that if the cost of repair is relatively small (say, for example, $5,000 or less) you might want to consider paying that amount out-of-pocket. Odds are you have a deductible anyway and fixing it w/o your insurance company knowing about it might save you from premium increases that you otherwise would not have had.

[npwalters]

A leak in the line going to your refrigerator ice maker is often the cause. In any case if it is coming up through your floor it needs to be resolved. It's likely that the floor will need to be replaced since mold can - likely will - grow under the surface. This assumes that water is under the flooring and not just on top.

I would definitely contact my home owners insurance. The cost to repair will definitely exceed a relatively small raise in the insurance rate.

I had this happen to us in Tennessee and the cost to remove the floor, remove and reinstall the cabinets, and replace the flooring was well over $10,000.

[villagetinker]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.

There have been several goods comments already, but I have a question, what type of floor covering do you have? It is very easy for water to travel UNDER the floor covering and show up some distance away from the actual leak. How big is the leak, my point, you can turn off the main valve in the house, open a faucet to bleed off any residual pressure, and dry the wet area and wait a few hours. If no water appears you probably have a leak inside the house as noted previously.

When you go to turn on the water, I would first turn off all of the valves you can find (toilets, sinks, dishwasher, washer, etc.), then turn on the water, look for the leak, and then start turning on valves at maybe 30 minute interval until water appears, then you may have located your leak.
Hope this helps.

[Topspinmo]

Look for the easy things first. Open your cabinet under your sink. Take everything out and use the palm of your hand to check for wet or even damp. Feel the rear wall around and below the valves.
Not so easy, pull your refrigerator out and look for water, and on the wall behind.

Hoses from wall valves to where ever.

Worse scenario - I won't go there. If you can't find it, call a plumber. Water can do a lot of damage in a hurry. Mitigate

Water will travel downhill (might not seem like downhill), but can then show-up 5 or 20 feet away. This is very common with many floor coverings.

Laundry room - leaking washer, or faucets on the wall behind. Could also be a clogged laundry drain that only pukes when pumping out the tub.

I lay down paper towels under sinks and toilets. Anything leaking or dripping show right up. My guess dish washer?

[Denverdame]

Thank you

[jerseyjoy]

We had that in our first house here. Turned out to be a damaged outside faucet leaking back into the wall, and eventually came up thru the living room floor. Don't wait in getting this resolved. We had large drying machines in our house for days to avoid mold. Big job, our insurance company handled it all but we had to pay deductible. When we sold the house, we told the buyer and they had a mold investigation done. Fortunately it was OK.

[jimmy o]

We had water seep up from under vinyl flooring once. Is was the dishwasher. Dishwashers sit below floor tiles. So when they leak the water easily runs under the tiles.

[BikeRiders]

We had water seeping up through our rolled vinyl floor. Turns out there was a hole in a pipe BELOW the concrete. It was there when the house was built. Warranty department would not cover it because it was past the 2 year systems warranty time line. Caused a crack in my garage floor. Cost me $900. Sleuth leak detection found it after Mike Scott Plumbings initial visit. Once found, Mike Scott plumbing repaired it.

[cleosmum]

I would get this looked at right away. I had a very similar issue a few years ago, I originally thought it was the refrigerator leaking, but it turned out that it was a leak from the air conditioning unit in the garage that traveled under the laundry room floor and showed up in the kitchen, buckling the laminate floor in the kitchen. I hope that’s not the case for you, but I would get it looked at right away.

[skippy05]

This is actually the same way Ocala Silver Springs began and look at the water that bubbles up there today.

[huge-pigeons]

Call Mike Scott Plumbing and quit wasting time on ToTV.

:ohdear:

Ask for a qualified technician not a trainee. I got a trainee the 1st time and had to pay for incompetence, the other times they were out they sent an experienced person by my request

[john352]

Call Mike Scott Plumbing and quit wasting time on ToTV.

:ohdear:

On October 7, 2022, I observed the results of a big leak under the concert floor in my master bathroom. The entire rug in the master bedroom was flooded, and the rug in the guest bedroom was partially flooded. My insurance company paid over $14,000 to repair the damage in three rooms. A few days before the big leak, there were faint sounds of water running in the master bathroom.

Lessoned learned: If you hear faint sounds of water running, turn off the supply value in your garage. If the sound stops, turn the water valve on and look for a leak under your sinks, water heater, etc. If you can't find the source, assume it is a pipe leak under your concert floor and call a plumber before it becomes a major leak.

[nestle]

My neighbor had that and it was coming from under his dish washer.

[maggie1]

Look for the easy things first. Open your cabinet under your sink. Take everything out and use the palm of your hand to check for wet or even damp. Feel the rear wall around and below the valves.
Not so easy, pull your refrigerator out and look for water, and on the wall behind.

Hoses from wall valves to where ever.

Worse scenario - I won't go there. If you can't find it, call a plumber. Water can do a lot of damage in a hurry. Mitigate

Water will travel downhill (might not seem like downhill), but can then show-up 5 or 20 feet away. This is very common with many floor coverings.

Laundry room - leaking washer, or faucets on the wall behind. Could also be a clogged laundry drain that only pukes when pumping out the tub.

Talk about water damage, two years ago when we made our winter journey to TV, we turned off the water to our condo. Our son stopped to check the place, turned on the water to use the bathroom, and then forgot to turn it off again. A week later he checked the condo, and discovered water damage to the entire upper floor in the kitchen, which also leaked into the finished basement. The connection from the water source to the ice maker had developed a leak, and our insurance company paid out a $21,000 bill for the repairs. My first thought upon reading the post was the problem most likely lies with a loose connection like we had.

[PhilG]

Check you AC sump

[Normal]

Possible condensation from something? The air here is quite humid. Windows, refrigerator, wine chiller, toilet tank, the list can be endless for condensation issues.

[Girlcopper]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.
It could be a million things. Call a plumber before it gets worse instead of everyone here taking a guess at it

[banjobob]

Not enough information to be of help

[sam&rog]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.


Could be the dishwasher, had to replace hardwood floors because the water line had a pinhole.

[OhioBuckeye]

I would say either cracked foundation & pipes are leaking or just a crack & water under the foundation is seeping through a crack. If I were you I would have Builder look at it or have someone that’s know concrete. How terrible!

[Wrhobson]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.

I have been dealing with a similar problem for over two years. If your home has a stucco exterior you might be interested to know that a maladjusted sprinkler head, constantly wetting the exterior wall, can cause water to actually go THROUGH the stucco and into the porous concrete block wall, eventually seeping down to the slab and then, under the proper conditions INTO the house. All this, according to my irrigation guy who discovered the maladjusted sprinkler heads at the rear of my home. If I can get the seepage to ever stop, I intend to use "Flexseal" clear at the base of the wall. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my guy is right in his assessment.

[Proveone]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.
If you have ever replaced the carpet in your house, you would see the concrete slab has cracks from when the house settled. It is possible that the water table is high and seeping through the cracks or you have a pvc pipe crack.

[HORNET]

Had a neighbor that had water leaking in his shower, believe it or not, it was ground water from outside in rear of his house from his rear neighbors down spouts. He had to have an under ground drain line installed to the front of his home at the street.

[Northwoods]

Just an FYI. A few years ago I had an issue with my air conditioner which resulted in water damage in my kitchen. I filed a claim with my homeowners insurance. The insurance company just cancelled me.

[PurePeach]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.

Yes! A neighbor of mine had this same thing happening in her rarely used spare bathroom. I went over to help her. We turned off the water coming into her house that night and the next day a plumber came over, ran a camera down the toilet it that bathroom and found a partial clog in the sewer line. Too much toilet paper had pretty much blocked her line. Fished it out and the problem was solved.

[Normal]

Almost all concrete sweats. It could be your flooring?

Why Does Your Floor Sweat and How To Stop It? | HandyHabits (https://handyhabits.com/why-does-your-floor-sweat-and-how-to-stop-it)

[sowilts]

Call Mike Scott Plumbing and quit wasting time on ToTV.

:ohdear:
Best advice.

[retiredguy123]

Almost all concrete sweats. It could be your flooring?

Why Does Your Floor Sweat and How To Stop It? | HandyHabits (https://handyhabits.com/why-does-your-floor-sweat-and-how-to-stop-it)
My concrete is female. Females don't sweat, they fluff.

[Justputt]

I have water seeping from underneath my kitchen floor. It’s not a lot but it’s concerning. Any ideas of what this could be? Thank you.

I see you only have 25 posts, so I'll make an assumption you're new to TV. If you bought new, call the Home Warranty Department ASAP. If you bought a pre-owned home recently, any water issues should have been disclosed by the seller or their agent. Contact your sales agent to go back to the seller's agent about remediation costs. Examine hose bibs, dishwasher connections and under dishwasher for leakage, check frig for icemaker/water dispenser leakage or defrost overflow onto the floor and check the clothes washer area for water, toilet tanks/connections, etc. All the homes I've seen in TV are slab on grade with vapor barriers and pipes come up through the slab, so my guess is you have a bad connection or as another poster suggested, someone wacked your outside hose bib, cracked it, and now it leaks into the home. Mainly, look for the obvious before you spend any big bucks, but if you can't find it pretty soon and fix it yourself, get a plumber.

[OhioBuckeye]

I know we’re all just guessing but I’m thinking exactly what your thinking!