Problem of the week/day WTF is going on here then????

[kerching]

Got a call at tea time last night and ended up doing a 100 mile round trip

Client calls, about to lock up for the night and go home when they noticed a pool of water on top of the microwave

The microwave is in the kitchen, the kitchen is in the cellar

Above the microwave is a small comms cabinet, close to a false/suspended ceiling

The kitchen is in the centre of the cellar and not against any outside walls

The only pipes behind the ceiling are ch pipes and these have been drained whilst a new boiler is fitted

Behind the ceiling is as dusty/dry as a Nun's chuff

Water is dripping out of the comms cabinet

It is pi$$ing it down outside

It is not a Government leak

Recently had work done on external condenser unit for ACU, this however is 2 floors up and at other end of building

WTF is going on here then?................. :coat : headbang

 

[Andy™]

data cable going to some external box, and water using data cables as a hose back to lowest point?

had a similar thing a while back. RCD tripping. 0.00meg between everything. open IP rated switch (thats inside and nowhere near any water), and its flooded. go to outside lights at other end of SWA and also filled with water. water has gone through the SWA and into the switch, and being IP rated to keep water out, its kept it in

 

[Jono Pashley]

the wall its on isnt a wet wall by any chance? had one yesterday water pooling on the floor in a office no sign of water on the walls/plasterboard until you get above the ceiling and see water pi$$ing down the tanking membrane.

 

[batty]

They can be a nightmare to find leaks. When doing a job for a builder I work for we had water coming through the ceiling. Thinking it could be something we had done we cut a few holes to find where it was coming from. It then turns out to be the condensate pipe on the boiler in the loft. Somehow the pipe had got pulled out so condensate water was running down the wall but not coming out in bathroom but the floor below in the kitchen. Water can travel quite a way before it appears. No help on your job though as the boilers not working.

 

[kerching]

I will let this run a bit to see what answers/suggestions appear.

How do I post videos on here? as I took one so the MD could see the problem... :coat

 

[Andy™]

dont think you can upload a vid here, you can only link to youtube?

 

[kme]

You can link to a vid on your photobucket site, I think........

 

[revjames]

I recently did some work on a tug, the controller for the anchor winch wouldnt work. I took it apart to find the box it was attached to was full of salt water and everything was corroded. The 7 core flex was fed via a stuffing gland into a kind of U bend before going below decks to the hydraulic panel. Re built the controller and cleaned everything up, re terminated and re connected the 7c and still getting no power. It turned out that there was another connection box below deck and the water had drained down through the flex sheath and filled that one up too and destroyed all the connections. Rainwater is bad, salt water worse.

 

[Steve3948]

Not a leak but condensation inside comms cabinet due to air temperature in room and temperature in cabinet.

 

[kerching]

Not a leak but condensation inside comms cabinet due to air temperature in room and temperature in cabinet.

Definite ingress of water NOT condensaation, sorry...................... :coat

 

[Steve3948]

Ok, when microwave is in use the vent on the top of the microwave emits the moisture from the cooked food straight into the cabinet where it cools down and drips back out onto microwave.

 

[Andy™]

Ok, when microwave is in use the vent on the top of the microwave emits the moisture from the cooked food straight into the cabinet where it cools down and drips back out onto microwave.

wouldnt that be condensation, which Kerching has already said its not

 

[kerching]

What work had they done ?

The actual 'content' of their work is irrelevant [just servicing the system and blowing out the cobwebs/dead birds/Macideees wrappers etc]

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[Steve3948]

Ok' date=' when microwave is in use the vent on the top of the microwave emits the moisture from the cooked food straight into the cabinet where it cools down and drips back out onto microwave.[/quote']wouldnt that be condensation, which Kerching has already said its not

Ok, but it would be water dripping back out.

Is it anything to do with the microwave though ?

 

[Badfish]

I don't suppose that the water is coming down an external telephone line in to the comms cabinet? You did say it was pi$$ing it down.

 

[springcrocus]

Are there any TV or satellite services in the box? Co-ax makes a really good hose pipe because of the airgap. If the terminal cover on the aerial is off, the rain washes out all the little flies that normally take up residence in the co-ax.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

It was cat pee ]

 

[kerching]

ACU lads have stood on cable laid across a flat roof.

Cable was lying in a puddle and the water has tracked by capilliary action in extent of 50m down the INSIDE of the cable!

It has then dripped out of the top of the cable and very slowly run down the outer sheath. When it has buit up enough it then fell on to the top of the microwave

I have seen this many times on an Air Spaced TV coax but never on a data cable. You live and learn, every day is a learning day

Tried to post video but it comes out as a photo...I will try again

 

[loonytoon]

If you click the photo, it opens your photobucket and you can watch it there.

 

[kerching]

If you click the photo, it opens your photobucket and you can watch it there.

Aha!........now I understand, thanks......................... :coat