Finding and fixing water damage in an old house
Channel: Rob Withoff
Date: 2021-07-24

I live in a 99-year-old house, and one of the previous owners made a lot of repairs and additions that are less than stellar, and most certainly not code-compliant. This was sometime in the early to mid '70s. 

One of these additions was an upstairs bathroom with a bathtub and shower, definitely done on a budget. They converted a large bedroom closet into a bathroom, and an attic storage space into a decent-sized apartment, which is where I live. 

I suppose it's good that it lasted as long as it did, but somewhere along the way, the shower developed a leak that started infiltrating the plaster-and-lath ceiling of the bathroom on the main floor, and one day, part of the ceiling caved in. 

I had to try to find the source of the leak and fix it to mitigate any further damage. It's not pretty.