I am in a residential therapy building
built on slab. The bathroom floor is leaking water up through the floor. My question is on slab construction
Is the plumbing usually embedded in the slab or laid on top the slab under a subfloor.

Under the concrete.

I think a leaky pipe is normal at your age, Grandpa.

That's why I asked. That means the bathroom floor will have to be ripped up to gix the leak.
Do far the maintenance guy has just wiped up the water, determined the toilet was not leaking and declared the leak fixed.

We just got done having a water leak in the slab fixed. It was a huge mess. Large jack hammered hole, then they had to dig the dirt out just to find out they couldn't get to the leak. They had to reroute the pipe to bypass the leak. Not to mention that the leak heaved the slab and now we have a huge diagonal crack int he foundation spanning the whole house.

What color is the water?

yellow with little brown turds in it








Its fresh water. The leak is inline before the toilet.

In that building I wouldn't be surprised if all the water is ran overhead. And there is a leak in the wall. Rarely do slab leaks come through the concrete but they can. If anyone has a slab leak in the future we always tunnel under the home to the leak. You don't have to tear your house up or make Swiss cheese out of your slab. Most of the time your homeowners insurance will pay for the tunneling but not the repair. Tunneling is easy 3/4 the cost of a tunneling slab leak. Just food for thought.

The leaking pipe in my house was under the bathroom floor, but the water was leaking through a small crack on my back porch. Matt is correct, my insurance paid for digging the hole and the tunneling($3100), I paid for the actual pipe repair($225).