Why is water coming out of this unconnected pipe?
Water can continue flowing from an unconnected pipe even after shutting off the power to the well and water softener. Tightening the fittings often fails to stop the leak, leaving people unsure if their plumbing setup or P-trap connection is assembled correctly.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Turn off the well and softener from the breaker to stop the flow.
- 2trying to tighten the nuts
- 3using an extension tailpiece to bridge the gap
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Water is dumping out of this pipe that doesn't look like it connects to anything.”source ↗
“I turned the well and softener off from the breaker and the water kept flowing out, eventually it stopped and when I turned it back on it's working like normal.”source ↗
“Been tightening that hasn’t seemed to work I guess my question is does the setup of it look correct? Did I do something wrong?”source ↗
“Tailpiece was to try to connect. The P trap came up a little short kind of an extension. The leak is I think coming from that second nut area.”source ↗