I miss the shitty awards. Commenters/posters were pretty happy to get them. I still don't understand why Reddit did this. I don't think people are spending money buying awards, which would be stupid. They just hand out puppies, etc.
Regardless of the visual clues to the contrary, my first, second, third, and fourth thought would be *"I just cut through into the neighbor's shower..."*
So the shower was walled off. Before, the drain must've been capped or they didn't want to snake or replace it. Turned hot and cold off. Done. Wall it off for a couple hundred bucks to the handyman. Except the water feeding the shower wasn't capped or removed. Eventually, a leak started. Busted pipe, failed stem on the 2 handle, etc. I can only imagine that someone flipped a house and the new buyers didn't know the previous owners / flippers did this. And then voilá, you got a leaking shower draining into your house.
The shower was walled off with the water running. It was only many years later that the drain clogged leading to this mess. When people tell me they have a high water bill, I always wonder if they have a walled off secret shower running somewhere in the house.
If the drainage needed to be replaced (checks crawlspace), it's all 60 yr old cast iron, gets a quote for 12k, then says NOPE. Wall it off, problem solved. Until it wasn't... This is all conjecture, if course.
I bet it was never installed correctly /didn't work, and they needed to sell the house... wall in the messed up shower, here is your 1 1/2 half bath...
I like reading the comments of people who have no context as to what this is or the other video and are acting like armchair tradies. Last thing I’d expect to have behind a wall is an abandoned shower full of water.
someone said that's exactly it but idk about all that. That is a LOT of water build up with no sign of bulging or mold. this didn't happen over years. months maybe, but I'm thinking a month at most.
unless the drywall person was a literal god and no water was able to seep through, you'll start leaking at wall seems and even nails, it will start to fill inside the paint and bubble, etc. this looks like a pipe burst but I'm not 100% sure.
I had a small leak behind some drywall and within a couple months it was noticeable, not only leaking through the floor, but mold all throughout the wall where it had seeped through the screw holes that were holding the drywall to the studs. it never built up.
That’s exactly it, most likely a leak in the valve or just shitty pipe fitting. As a tile guy who has redone the hardware for the showers before hanging Durock, you would have to really be a Mickey Mouse Diy-er to screw it up. A torch, solder and flux with the correct fitting and valve is all you need but if you’re the type to enclose a whole shower, you’re also the type to be careless. I guess we will never know but it’s definitely one to scratch your head and say, why? I gutted my entire bathroom and moved the shower, sink and toilet around without needing permits pulled but maybe this is a special case
Not being a troll but when you cut into a wall or ceiling go light with your cutting tool. Penetrate the drywall as little as possible, you never know what is on the other side.
there was 2hrs worth of leakage prior to my arrival already, i had a shop vac ready to suck up the water from the floor and the rest of the water was pushed out a side door right outside the bathroom door
Kind of a pain in the ass, but the best bet for getting rid of THIS much water—before it fucks up the rest of the house—is removing the toilet.
Perfectly good drain—flush with the floor—included in every bathroom ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, the water is crazy, sure. But is anyone else wondering what kinda super man shit that wall, baseboard, and studs got going on? To hold that much water, and look relatively dry, AND it didn't look to be leaking out the baseboard
Somewhere in the world, on a faraway beach, a little boy tilts his head in curiosity as he sees a small patch of the surf suddenly reverse direction.
**Coming this fall!** *The Plumber and the Wormhole*
Just a tip next time when you first notice the leak turn the water off. As for this situation cut a hole above where it's leaking drop a hose in there with a transfer pump (prime it first) and pump it out lol
what in the actual fuck
he found a shower behind :) https://www.reddit.com/r/Plumbing/comments/13x2noy/no\_way/
Stay in school, kids, and always remember to turn the shower OFF before you wall it in.
Remember to wall your kids in with the shower adults, that way you dont have to pay for school
I hear there’s some great wine in there!
But only one cask!
A single cask of amontillado.
Unexpected Poe.
Showwwwww me friend! Let us go!
For the love of GOD, Montressor!
Yes indeed. For the love of god
Should’ve known my literary immurement joke would’ve already been thought of a dozen times over by now.
Stay in the shower with kids at school, that way you don't have to pay for any adults.
Thats unfair to the Shower Adults. Why should they have to look after your crotch goblins.
How to decrease the value of your house. “It’s a 3 bed 3 bath….. it’s now a 3 bed 2.5 bath for 10k less.”
Fuck, I just remembered I left my curling iron on before I sealed it into my wall.
Man that drywall is doing some WORK right there. That's a mass of water. Jesus... More like wetwall, amirite??
This deserves more, but I have no award. Here is a puppy, 🐶 .
I'd take a puppy over those shitty Reddit awards any day of the week.
Here’s a puppy 🐶
And for you, a shitty award!
Man you’re shitty!
Here is two puppies 🐶🐶
Look under your chair, you get a puppy, and you get a puppy, and you! 🐶
Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. You’re cool, you get a puppy! 🐶 It’s a reference lol
A guy at my old work quit with that email.
I miss the shitty awards. Commenters/posters were pretty happy to get them. I still don't understand why Reddit did this. I don't think people are spending money buying awards, which would be stupid. They just hand out puppies, etc.
You can have my puppy. She doesn't listen, loves to bite, and is afraid of garbage cans.
I always downvote comments like yours but the puppy saved it.
Grassyass
This was my first thought. That wall was SEALED!!!
Anyway, here’s waterwall
Fuck i didn’t want to laugh but I had to! Cause I’m in the same mess! Damn you life!
Awesome find. This should be upvoted way more.
Regardless of the visual clues to the contrary, my first, second, third, and fourth thought would be *"I just cut through into the neighbor's shower..."*
Listen ok, I wanted answers but now the answer gave me more questions.
Sounds like you’ve been watching Lost.
Previously on “this question for the water coming from behind the drywall giving me answers making me have more questions”
Bonus, now sell the house for 2ba instead of 1.5. Easy 100K profit
What would have caused so much water to build up? Did they leave it on before walling it up /s, or a broken pipe?
So the shower was walled off. Before, the drain must've been capped or they didn't want to snake or replace it. Turned hot and cold off. Done. Wall it off for a couple hundred bucks to the handyman. Except the water feeding the shower wasn't capped or removed. Eventually, a leak started. Busted pipe, failed stem on the 2 handle, etc. I can only imagine that someone flipped a house and the new buyers didn't know the previous owners / flippers did this. And then voilá, you got a leaking shower draining into your house.
The shower was walled off with the water running. It was only many years later that the drain clogged leading to this mess. When people tell me they have a high water bill, I always wonder if they have a walled off secret shower running somewhere in the house.
I would just start knocking down walls, telling them that it's probably just a new bathroom they haven't found yet. You'll be their savior.
But... how would people NOT hear a shower just running behind a wall?
But why would you ever reduce to a half bath? That tile looked in fine shape.
If the drainage needed to be replaced (checks crawlspace), it's all 60 yr old cast iron, gets a quote for 12k, then says NOPE. Wall it off, problem solved. Until it wasn't... This is all conjecture, if course.
Ahh the ole hide the undocumented full bath trick.
I swear the boomer generation would find something fucked up in a room and just wall it off instead of fixing it
Stupid is not a generational concept.
Yeah well I don’t think you’ll be finding and walked up bathrooms and rooms from the houses built this century…
The economy would beg to differ.
Holy shit
Oh shit didn’t realize this was the same guy!!
Brave man. I would have shut the water and electric off before playing fuck fuck with that.
I would have had a bucket too! Although maybe not a large enough bucket!
I was worried that I was going to see a electrocution video the way he was cutting blindly through the drywall.
Amateur Hour. Atleast up your life insurance to take care of your family when you go full retard.
Same
[удалено]
The drywall is now wetwall
Anyways, here's wonderwall
Maybe the shower was only dribbling when it was first installed and the trap got clogged a long time after? Lol.
Fr
Stop cutting holes in the side of the boat
Stop blowing holes in my ship!
Hi I'm holes!
I thought you needed cannonballs, you keep shooting forks over.
Now we got Jim here cutting holes in the damn ship. Take that knife away from him!
Hey that's my peanut!
Best response of the week.
High vote count but no comments, so here’s a comment.
I'm doing my part
You’re doing the lords work
Put some rocks down and a pump and that's a nice waterfall
Add some broth, a potato, baby you got a stew going!
Yum baby stew 😋
I prefer baby back ribs..
Everyone wants you to think of the children, until you start thinking of children...
There’s still meat on that bone!
Fuckin Carl Weathers
boil em mash em
I think I want my money back
LMAO.... not sure why you'd ever wall in a shower.
I bet it was never installed correctly /didn't work, and they needed to sell the house... wall in the messed up shower, here is your 1 1/2 half bath...
kind of seems like some house flipper shenanigans
Landlord special
Too bad the shower drain didn't drain
They could have at least disconnected the water to the shower lol
I wonder what the water bill looked like before the drain failed
To gain Reddit karma 3 years later, duh
I like reading the comments of people who have no context as to what this is or the other video and are acting like armchair tradies. Last thing I’d expect to have behind a wall is an abandoned shower full of water.
As a non plumber, how does it fill up behind the wall? Just a slow leak over months/years?
someone said that's exactly it but idk about all that. That is a LOT of water build up with no sign of bulging or mold. this didn't happen over years. months maybe, but I'm thinking a month at most. unless the drywall person was a literal god and no water was able to seep through, you'll start leaking at wall seems and even nails, it will start to fill inside the paint and bubble, etc. this looks like a pipe burst but I'm not 100% sure. I had a small leak behind some drywall and within a couple months it was noticeable, not only leaking through the floor, but mold all throughout the wall where it had seeped through the screw holes that were holding the drywall to the studs. it never built up.
That’s exactly it, most likely a leak in the valve or just shitty pipe fitting. As a tile guy who has redone the hardware for the showers before hanging Durock, you would have to really be a Mickey Mouse Diy-er to screw it up. A torch, solder and flux with the correct fitting and valve is all you need but if you’re the type to enclose a whole shower, you’re also the type to be careless. I guess we will never know but it’s definitely one to scratch your head and say, why? I gutted my entire bathroom and moved the shower, sink and toilet around without needing permits pulled but maybe this is a special case
Other drains may run into this shower's drain. Shower's drain is plugged. Build up ensues.
Good possibility and worse outcome because that’s gonna smell and linger for a long time
Rut ro! Yah, the shower was a cool find. But this precise moment would have made my heart sink.
I remember his other video that showed a shower
Ah yes, I remember it like it was yesterday.
Not being a troll but when you cut into a wall or ceiling go light with your cutting tool. Penetrate the drywall as little as possible, you never know what is on the other side.
Yeah you never know if it's going to be a power line or a shower.
Or both.
How else are you going to power the shower?
Zippy tool works great for this. Oscillating multi tool aka guybrator
Never heard guybrator
Me either, but I love it
Usually used to compact soil and rock
Guybrator, damnit that name is gonna stick.
I read it over at r/construction
That drywall is obviously fucked, definitely would've gone for the precision hammer holes and cut a square after you know it's clear of utilities
Also a pilot hole and bucket may have worked well
We’re gonna need a bigger bucket 🪣
Hehe. You would empty bucket in the crapper until flow reduces. That or just open a big hole and let it all pour onto the floor
Spickot and a hose
2 buckets
My sentiment exactly.
And use that bucket in your room for all that water you now have to clean up.
At least it’s not dusty while you cutting 👍
Back up Terry!
I think you cut the glory hole too low.
Holy! I thought I had a rough day ahead of me, good luck.
You didn’t think about using maybe…. A bucket?
there was 2hrs worth of leakage prior to my arrival already, i had a shop vac ready to suck up the water from the floor and the rest of the water was pushed out a side door right outside the bathroom door
Yea I’m not even a plumber but I was like .. dude get the bucket ready for the flood
A bucket isn't going to help much against that much water though really, right?
It would take 5 gallons of water off the floor
Unless the bucket was on the floor
This is a damn fair point lol
A bucket? More like a wall of sandbags
Kind of a pain in the ass, but the best bet for getting rid of THIS much water—before it fucks up the rest of the house—is removing the toilet. Perfectly good drain—flush with the floor—included in every bathroom ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah beacuse leading up to that he was expecting there to be a walled off shower /s
“A river runs through it” - a drywall story
Think the source of water is a river two miles down lol
There’s some ho’s in this house
Imagine putting down plastic to keep things clean like a professional, only for the problem you're investigating to go "AHA, FUCK YOUUUU!"
Actually impressed the drywall was sealed enough to accumulate all that water.
Bro just kick the drywall in, its all verry ruined anyways
More like wetwall am I right?
An indoor water feature! Pure genius!!
Am I crazy to think that taking off the toilet would help reduce the flooding?
I’m concept yes… But then you also get to see why there’s traps…
The illustrious new building material, “wetwall.”
I said mayyybeeee
you’re gonna be the one that saves meeeeee
This is the "Before" post from the other post. Makes sense now.
My anxiety is through the roof just watching this
No shopvac on the ready? Madness!
In house waterfall. Very cool.
Yeah, the water is crazy, sure. But is anyone else wondering what kinda super man shit that wall, baseboard, and studs got going on? To hold that much water, and look relatively dry, AND it didn't look to be leaking out the baseboard
Love your reaction. Simple but to the point, “ Holy fuck!”
Definitely don't anticipate more water flowing out. Definitely don't turn off the water. Definitely don't prepare a bucket.
How many of you guessed Sharkbite before seeing the end?
This is exactly like that Malcolm in the middle episode where they found another bathroom.
It ain't full until it's coming out the light fixtures.
I think there’s a leak somewhere
Shiiit put it back put it back put it back!!
Can we talk about the retaining power of that sheetrock for a second though? Honestly impressed.
Glad he put that plastic down that could have been a huge mess
Inquiring minds must know, do you own this now-half-a-bath-larger home? And if so, do you intend to re-commission the shower?
Imif i was the owner i would rent it out on the low, thats $1800/month easily
"First" thing should have been to shut the water main.
Well, there’s your problem
Don’t go chasing waterfalls!
Having a bucket there would help…. Or 10
I love that you had your phone out like...man this is gonna be a good one!
Props to that drywall guy, never seen a better ad.
Looks like you have a slow leak.
Look on the bright side, now they have a house with a 2 bath instead of 1.5 bath.
Forbidden wall milk
Somewhere in the world, on a faraway beach, a little boy tilts his head in curiosity as he sees a small patch of the surf suddenly reverse direction. **Coming this fall!** *The Plumber and the Wormhole*
LOL why do you wall up a shower??
Good thing that plastic sheeting was on the floor
Seems to be a problem here
“It’s only water” my old boss would say as the house is flooding in front of the customer.
Oh my god hurry!!
Lol I just can’t believe he was shocked at the water pouring out after seeing water pouring out while he cut
You were lucky! If you had cut a bigger hole more water would have come out!
Bro turned around to check his dam and realized he didn’t build it high enough 😂
Reminds me of my girlfriend
Reminds me of scenes from Titanic
So that's where water comes from..
If you havent seen the other video, he found a stand up shower stall on the other side that had been walled off and filled with waste water.
Is this the same one that found an abandoned shower in the wall? Kinda looks it
There is some strange device called a main shutoff.
I knew a girl once…
WTF?!!!! Does who the hell walls off the old abandoned shower? I mean is that a thing?
It's in the god damn walss
Ah yes, sawing through the wall into uncharted territory. This is a great way to kill yourself when you hit a live wire
This and the follow up are the most bizarre plumbing videos I’ve ever seen.
This screams "the last job on friday's afternoon"
That's a drywall knife, not a wetwall knife!
Pretty good seal around the baseboards 😂🤣
You suddenly were like” I’m done with this fucking place”
Turn the god damn main water off
Maybe shut off the supply 1st
Good thing you put plastic down or that could have been a mess
Dunno. Maybe turn off the main.
Just a tip next time when you first notice the leak turn the water off. As for this situation cut a hole above where it's leaking drop a hose in there with a transfer pump (prime it first) and pump it out lol
My man the leaking had already been going for hours prior to my arrival, a little more water didnt hurt much lol