Leaks may appear at either end of the shower's goose neck pipe.
Both shower faucets and kitchen faucets have a neck piece that can begin leaking water at any given time. Repairing the two different parts requires completely different steps. To successfully complete both repairs, you neither have to have special plumbing tools nor extensive plumbing repair experience.
Kitchen Faucets
A kitchen faucet's neck or base of its spout may spring a leak. Instead of the water leaking out of the spout's opening and into the sink, the water leaks from the base of the spout and all over the counter top behind the sink. When such a leak appears, bad o-rings that sit under the spouts' sleeve on the base piece are the culprit. The rubber o-rings become brittle or harden and crack as they age, allowing the water that flows out of the base piece to leak out onto the counter instead of flowing up the spout's neck and through the spout's opening.
Kitchen Repair
Fixing the leaking base of the kitchen faucet's neck requires you to remove whatever sits on the top of the spout's base. Depending on the faucet's setup, this may be a single water control handle or a screw-on cap piece. You must shut off the water to the faucet using the knobs below the sink before removing anything. For a water control handle, you must loosen the screw that holds the handle in place and unscrew the dome-shaped piece as well as any retaining nut and valve assembly before you can lift the spout off the base. With the spout removed, you can access both o-rings, which you roll off, and install replacements.
Shower Faucets
Shower faucets may also experience a neck leak when the water comes out of either end of the curving goose neck pipe that connects to the shower head. You may easily see leaks at the connection between the shower head and the goose neck pipe while you are taking a shower. Leaks at the other end of the pipe are inside the wall where the goose neck pipe connects with the water supply pipe that runs vertically behind the shower surround. The leaking water drips inside the wall, causing water damage either on the drywall behind the shower's faucet or the ceiling below.
Shower Repair
You do not have to shut off the water to fix a leaking goose neck pipe. You do need to wrap a towel around the shower head before turning it counterclockwise with an adjustable wrench. Wrap the goose neck pipe with the same towel and use the same wrench to turn the pipe counterclockwise to unscrew it from its connection in the wall, if that is the location of the leak. If you see corrosion on the pipe's threads, replace it to stop the leaking. You must use a wire brush to clean off any debris from the pipe's threads, and then wrap pipe tape around the threads on both ends before replacing the pipe and the shower head.
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