Guess what?

[thailen]

A month ago, I asked for help in stopping a slow(1 drop of water/second) bathtub faucet leak and was advised to call a plumber to fix it. Great (and expensive) advice, which I would have taken if it were in a house I lived in and was responsible for water usage.
I live in a condo and the 269 other owners pay a monthly maintenance fee which includes water. So I didn't mind the drip except for the sound and out of curiosity I pulled up the shower diverter valve and turned it clockwise. Guess what? the drip stopped.

 

[SimonG]

Good for you 👏👏👏👏👏

 

[Gasmk1]

Good for you 👏👏👏👏👏

I was going to answer but couldn't be bothered

 

[Knappers]

I've got another free fix for you if it starts again, just drape a towel over the tap and the water will soak down it and not drip.
There's another expensive plumber avoided!

 

[gmartine]

I miss the nationality IDs, saves me having to read it.

 

[Ric2013]

A month ago, I asked for help in stopping a slow(1 drop of water/second) bathtub faucet leak and was advised to call a plumber to fix it. Great (and expensive) advice, which I would have taken if it were in a house I lived in and was responsible for water usage.
I live in a condo and the 269 other owners pay a monthly maintenance fee which includes water. So I didn't mind the drip except for the sound and out of curiosity I pulled up the shower diverter valve and turned it clockwise. Guess what? the drip stopped.

Well, thanks for coming back to us, but it is to be regretted if that is all you took from the free advice some of us bothered to give you:

- can you contrive a way of diverting the water directly into the waste outlet? For example, by putting a length of wastepipe to run directly from the dripping tap (faucet) to the waste.

- if time is pressured on respray then cut the pipe and fit isolating valves which you can turn off now


What you actually asked was how you could block the slow leak from a tub faucet, not how to mend it, nor how to isolate it. You didn't explain the situation and, had you told us that it was a shower diverter tap, the solution you found would have been obvious, so you win no points for finding a solution that required information you didn't choose to share with us. You may find the drip will restart from the showerhead, but perhaps you could move that out of the way.

To be honest, I'm still confused as to what the situation was even now you've explained it. You wanted to repaint your bathtub somewhere you DON'T live, so the relevance of where you DO live or how your condo is maintained is beyond me, or perhaps the salient point is that it isn't a house. You've lost me.

By the way, your post would have been better added to your previous thread rather than start a new one. Perhaps one of the admin will wish to merge Blocking a slow leak - https://www.plumbersforums.net/threads/blocking-a-slow-leak.121073/#post-1111207 ?

 

[Ric2013]

I miss the nationality IDs, saves me having to read it.

Oh come on, 'faucet' is a dead giveaway.

 

[gmartine]

Oh come on, 'faucet' is a dead giveaway.

The condo was the giveaway for me tbf, faucet use for me not so uncommon.

 

[Ric2013]

The condo was the giveaway for me tbf, faucet use for me not so uncommon.

The tap will drip if you routinely faucet.