Photo credits
Most pictures on this site are real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, including public-domain government surveys. We crop them to fit and blur maker names and logos where we spot them. A blur is noted on most captions where it shows. Each page shows the photo closest to the topic that we could find, which is not always a photo of the exact problem or of an American apartment. The caption says so where it matters.
| Picture | By | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| A drop-ceiling panel with a large brown, crumbling water-damaged patch above a tiled wall | Atomicdragon136 | CC BY 3.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A white plastic sink trap with a thin stream of water running from its underside | Tony Webster | CC BY 2.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A rust-brown water stain on a textured painted ceiling where it meets a yellow wall | Ed! (Photography Gallery) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Dark mold blooms across the ceiling and upper walls of a room with a ceiling fan and tall windows | Infrogmation | CC BY 3.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A chrome recessed fire sprinkler head with a red glass bulb in a plain white ceiling | HomeSpot HQ | CC BY 2.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. Credit link requested by the source: HomeSpot HQ. |
| Wooden water tanks on steel legs among the brick rooftops of New York apartment buildings | Roy Googin | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A new faucet aerator in a plastic bag next to a worn old one on a wooden surface | MKFI | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Two copper water pipes running on the surface along a wood-panelled ceiling and down a corner | Santeri Viinamäki | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A chrome shower lever and a square wall spray set in wet blue-grey tile | Tomwsulcer | CC0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| An old boiler seen through a doorway in a scuffed basement wall, with pipes along the ceiling | Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS CA-2404), Library of Congress | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| White plastic drain piping and a trap inside an open sink cabinet | Tony Webster | CC BY 2.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| An old tarnished brass P-trap coming out of a yellow painted wall | Raquel Baranow | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Gas meters and pipework on an outside wall of a condominium building | BrokenSphere | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Two stainless water hammer arresters fitted to the valves of a washer box, with a braided hose attached | Tony Webster | CC BY 2.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Red and blue sleeved water lines rising out of a floor along a bare block wall | KVDP | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A hand lifting a perforated metal grate off a floor drain, with dark water in the opening | Sgconlaw | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Two copper pipes passing through a block surface inside sealed rings, with handwritten marks on the block | Achim Hering | CC BY 3.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A narrow residential high-rise tower rising behind bare branches | M.O. Stevens | CC BY 3.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A modern apartment building lobby with a double-sided fireplace, orange and black chairs and pendant lights | Sdkb | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Low-rise tan-brick apartment buildings around a grassy courtyard with large bare trees | Nyttend | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Ruined furniture and household debris piled along a street in front of white frame houses | Michael Rieger | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A plain shared laundry room in an apartment complex with stacked machines and folding counters | Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS VA-1339), Library of Congress | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A black, moldy wet patch spreading from the corner of a white ceiling and running down the wall | NPS Photo | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A tiled shower floor broken open to show the drain piping and trap below | Hardyplants | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A rust-ringed toilet drain opening in a patched old tile floor, inside the outline left by a toilet | Downtowngal | CC0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A grey electric tank water heater on a bare concrete floor in an open closet | Famartin | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Two white water filter units inside an open cabinet under a double stainless sink | Fanti Salms | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A vertical plastic pipe and a copper pipe passing through a concrete floor slab, with a steel riser clamp and printed labels | Achim Hering | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A small panelled plumbing access door set low in a painted hallway wall | Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS KS-73), Library of Congress | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Braided hoses and metal stop valves in a crowded space under a sink | Wikimedia Commons contributor | CC0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Several metal-roofed water tanks on a mid-rise roof in front of a large building wrapped in scaffolding | Kritzolina | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| Thick wrapped pipes and ducts crowding the basement furnace room of an apartment building | Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS KS-73), Library of Congress | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A three-story tan-brick garden-style apartment building with a rounded corner behind trees | John Gentry | Public domain | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A long white mid-rise condominium building behind autumn trees and a parking lot | G. Edward Johnson | CC BY 4.0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
| A long carpeted apartment corridor running past dark unit doors toward a lit exit sign | Kurtkaiser | CC0 | Source page. Cropped or retouched for this site. |
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AI-generated pictures
Where no fitting photograph could be found, we used a generated picture. It is labeled as AI-generated in its caption on the question's page; the small thumbnails on list pages don't repeat the label. These pictures show the kind of scene being discussed, not a real home.
- Water dripping from a wet, sagging patch of ceiling into a bucket on a wood floor
- A wet ceiling above a desk, with a laptop and damp books moved onto a towel and a tub catching drips
- A darkened, slightly bubbled damp patch on a painted wall above a white baseboard
- Two vertical stainless steel pumps on a frame with copper pipes, valves and gauges in a basement room
- Cloudy grey-brown water pooled around the drain of a white bathtub
- White soap foam rising out of the drain of a stainless steel kitchen sink
- A cut opening in a bathroom wall showing vertical copper water pipes and a cast iron drain pipe going through a concrete floor
- A white washing machine in a narrow apartment closet with a wall valve box and a drain pipe behind it
- A recessed wall valve box with two lever valves and braided hoses running down behind a washer
- A small round white leak sensor on a tile floor beside the base of a washing machine
Video stills are stored on this site and belong to the channels named beside each video.
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