After taking a shower (1 piece shower-bath unit), I can hear what sounds like a dripping in the wall. The plumbing on the shower in in the wall to the bedroom, so placing ear on both sides I can hear it. The sound is constant, every 8-10 seconds it will drip. Due to consistency, I ruled out noise from tub expanding/contracting from hot shower. No leaks show in the wall, under baseboard in bedroom, or from down below (downstairs). After an hour or so the dripping stops.
Is this an actual drip or maybe pipes just making noise? If the pipe were to leak/drip at a slow rate, wouldn't the water run down the pipe rather than fall hitting floor in wall? I have considered cutting a
2'X2' in wall from bedroom to look at pipes and see if there is a leak, but dread doing this as I am unfamiliar on patching the hole up again so you wouldn't be able to see it was ever cut out (guess as good a time as any to learn) as well as wall has a faux finish on it, so attempting to redo that and blend it is also daunting.Any hints or ideas? Thanks in advance
- Clayton