Hello,
I recently purchased a new house and one of the conditions on the purchase was that a leak coming from the upstairs toilet into the downstairs kitchen be fixed. The leak was found by our home inspector and was actually a trickle coming straight down our kitchen wall from the upstairs bathroom. He estimated the repair would cost between $500-1000 (CDN).
So the owner had it fixed ... apparently. Here is my question.
The plumber went in, removed a part of the wall, fixed a leaking joint between two pipes and put in a new section of wall. I went in to inspect that the work was done the day after and it looked fine.
Three weeks later I returned to the house and noticed considerable brown stains running across and down the newly laid wall in the kitchen.
So I spoke to the plumber again and he said that it is always the case that there will be water stains coming from the fixed leak. He said that this is normal and that after painting over the stains, we will never see a stain again.
This seems a little fishy to me and would like some advice on this matter. I believe that the leak wasn't actually fixed. Why should there be any stains at all coming from a leak that was apparently fixed??
Thanks, Neel