A leak in the ceiling, how to do that exactly. Today we’re helping you out because you had a shower plumbing leak up in the ceiling right here and also dripped down to your living room or bedroom. We can fix that for you trust us. You can do it yourself here is how.

• First let’s do some preliminary stuff by getting some plastic to plastic off, because we’re going to make a little bit of a mess with the inspection opening. We don’t want any air blowing around in this room because once we start cutting ceiling it’s going to drop down, it’s going to get all in the air. We’re doing this so the plaster board dust is going to fall straight down. You could put a wall up across the hallway if you want depending on how much patch work you will be doing.

What make us decide to cut, you should look for black marks, where paper was peeling that would be main dropping point. Remove first layer of coating which is paint, plaster. We don’t want to patch this area but use access to pipes underneath shower tray of bathtub. This leak had been up there for quite some time before and there’s going to be lots of mold underneath shower or bath depending what you have. You have to take that out. It smells musty and it’s best if you cut this out. If you had a water damaged ceiling and if didn’t see any visible reside of mold and if you caught it soon enough it’s not enough to focus only on that small area, making access under shower tray. Access will get bigger and bigger depending you are just under the shower trap or somewhere close. Your job to be slightly different from this tutorial but if you follow thought these steps you will notice similarities later on.

That’s about it. You don’t really need that many tools and if you’re do-it-yourself don’t have much money, don’t worry about it you don’t have to buy all the professional tools, you just make do with what you have. That’s what we do!

Let’s get back up in the celling as you have to cut this and just be careful and see what happens.

You got isolation or leaking plumbing pipes there, you can have also electrical wiring so be gentle. Just think about certain things like that before you get going.

If water stopped in the middle of wet area you just cut out from there and I’d recommend going across next joists. Check which direction joist going. Be careful as saw blade is longer you think, to cut the water pipe or electrics; check things out to be safe. Make sure you know where water main is. Now you can prepare inspection hole to patch this gap later.

Now, let’s prepare the patch to get it up in the inspection hole. To make sure that it fits don’t worry if there is slight gap. Measure and cut piece of plaster board again to make sure it fits properly in the inspection hole.

Take your time with covering up the inspection hole. If you cut to small that’s fine also don’t worry if you put the screw up too far. Just put another screw next and try again. You will cover that later on with plaster or filler.

Mix up enough filler just to get started. Don’t put to much material on the trowel, trial and error to know your limitations. Keep situating filler in your pan, flop over wide edges off, and put where is needed. Push out on the ends to avoid dropping on the floor as you have more chance walking in. Move ladder as often as needed. More patches you do better you get better. Wait for dray before you put another layer. Not ready to be coated yet it takes some time to hardened, you want the filler to be hard. It has to be nice and dry to put the second coat on. If too soon it’s going to start dragging some of the first coat off.

Plumbing emergencies happen all the time.I remember one weekend I took a phone call and I hear water hitting the floor. And I said the gentlemen on the phone, do you know how to shut off your water mains? And he said well you know I really don’t know how to do it. So I walked him thought to shut off his water mains. So there is one piece of advice I have to give somebody is that when the water hitting the floor it’s panic mode and you are not thinking. When water keeps on running, panic sets in. So know how to shut before it’s an emergency and make sure that everyone knows; said Mark one of our plumber W1 London.

After that you might need to find plumber in W1 London – 020 870 410 46. Look for some basic points e.g. read the company’s reviews, call the company and listing to how the people react on the phone and look for things like does the company have a staff of people that can understand your problem and get the right person on the job.

Just in case you have question about this patch, this is not back side regular plasterboard. This is special board, water resistant like to green plasterboard for bathrooms. This is not regular piece of plasterboard.

If you see it’s kind of dark patches, means it’s still slightly wet. Finish patch in middle all the way around, probably you’re never going to see it, but to make that patch look better you might want to fill the whole area in with quick set material.

Wipe off your trowel after each pull, take a look at the whole patch to see if there’s any other spots that need to be done, reposition your ladder if needed.

If you feel you need to do more work on that patch before you get to the next step, do it. Because you didn’t want to have to think later I wish I would have put a little more on, I wish I would have done that. It only took few more minutes do what you have to do. If you have to repeat layer of patch do it to feel happy how patch is going to come out. Next step is to sand down the areas needed and prepare for paint.