Just noticed this brown stain above my living room window. I don’t have a ladder at the moment so can’t reach it to touch it but the wallpaper near it is starting to lift so I think it might be damp. But it’s on the ground floor and there doesn’t appear to be anything else around it or in the room above it. My bathroom is on the floor above too but to the right. Could it be water travelling from the bathroom down or getting in from outside? It hasn’t rained locally since Saturday.
Ah, my boiler is in the room above and there’s pipes that go to the bathroom to the right and a radiator under the window. I’ll contact a plumber in the morning.
It’s worth trying to see if you can get eyeballs on the room immediately above that location. If you have multiple floors windows are usually placed in parallel, one floor above the other. So it may be not a plumbing issue, but a window above could have a leak from the exterior that’s traveling downwards. Or the roof. I’ve seen leaks presenting evidence 20+ feet from the source before. They can take really unexpected routes through a building.
The item above is where my fibre internet comes in, it was installed about 2 years ago. I’m just now noticing some brown marks on the wallpaper there.
EDIT: I think those marks next to the fibre inlet might actually be brick dust from when they drilled the hole.
Ha! A buddy of mine was a cable guy for years.
I’ll bet you $5 if it’s not your bathroom then the cause is the fiber installer poked a hole through your exterior wall and didn’t properly seal it.
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