Better bath seal - chaos from this one!
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Drips on my head downstairs as daughter was showering!
New bath (professionally) fitted about 5 yrs ago was a bit low for existing tiles so chap left me to seal it up... I sealed bath to wall and then put a flexible sealing strip to close the gap (from a UPVC window place). I sealed it REALLY well with expensive branded anti mould silicone. But it has now given way...
What would be better guys? You can see the mould in the gap and a few tiles have come off now too as the plaster got damp.
Cheers
New bath (professionally) fitted about 5 yrs ago was a bit low for existing tiles so chap left me to seal it up... I sealed bath to wall and then put a flexible sealing strip to close the gap (from a UPVC window place). I sealed it REALLY well with expensive branded anti mould silicone. But it has now given way...
What would be better guys? You can see the mould in the gap and a few tiles have come off now too as the plaster got damp.
Cheers
Spudler said:
No you didn't.
You bodged it plain and simple.
Looks like you used two lengths instead of one.
Apart from badly applied sealant I'm guessing you didn't fill the bath first?
Ha! No! That's where the cover strip snapped when I tried to remove it after first knifing through much of the silicone I could get to You bodged it plain and simple.
Looks like you used two lengths instead of one.
Apart from badly applied sealant I'm guessing you didn't fill the bath first?
Although clearly the job/approach has failed/wasn't the best solution? I did weigh the bath down with some water before doing it too.
That strip is plonked back in for reference - so might look like bad sealing but its been removed once!
Edited by Ken Figenus on Sunday 8th January 19:00
Ohh God! Big job! Please tell me there is some magic NASA 'L' shaped super sealer strip available in Wilko?
Wouldnt mind so much but the replacement 5 years ago was an insurance job so should have been done properly. I'll get the panel off and have a look what went on - even if it was at the full extent of its adjustment then a few blocks of wood would have bought it up to meet the tiles...
Thanks for the input chaps - appreciated.
Wouldnt mind so much but the replacement 5 years ago was an insurance job so should have been done properly. I'll get the panel off and have a look what went on - even if it was at the full extent of its adjustment then a few blocks of wood would have bought it up to meet the tiles...
Thanks for the input chaps - appreciated.
You bunch of rotters judging a man by the quality of his bath sealing strip
!! Judge me by the colour of my silicone intake pipes by all means but not by some dull bath sealing strip I have inherited by the actions of a bodger
I'll take the kind (and the unkind!) advice and so the bath just has to go up to meet the tiles; I suspect that the supply pipes will then have to be extended (which is maybe the corner the 'pro' cut - I think he told me that fitted height was due to the height of the bath panels - any higher and there would be a gap at the bottom, which was plausible...).
Time for a plumber as I'm too busy to bodge it I'll post a pic with a the nice new AM Morning Frost pearescent leather sealing strip in place (£10 per mm) and hence try to claw back some skinflint bathroom seal street cred once its done 
!! Judge me by the colour of my silicone intake pipes by all means but not by some dull bath sealing strip I have inherited by the actions of a bodgerI'll take the kind (and the unkind!) advice and so the bath just has to go up to meet the tiles; I suspect that the supply pipes will then have to be extended (which is maybe the corner the 'pro' cut - I think he told me that fitted height was due to the height of the bath panels - any higher and there would be a gap at the bottom, which was plausible...).
Time for a plumber as I'm too busy to bodge it
I'll post a pic with a the nice new AM Morning Frost pearescent leather sealing strip in place (£10 per mm) and hence try to claw back some skinflint bathroom seal street cred once its done Plumber has been 'round - father of my son's school mate - suggests re-tiling it all tight to the bath rather than moving bath up as bath is fixed in very solidly. Hadn't thought of re-tiling it all but it isn't a massive area and it would update it a bit and kill my chavvy sealing strip issue He said if the plaster comes off with the old tiles we could maybe aqua-board it too - sounds good as its actually mostly used as a shower.
Trouble is this is all potential; 'car money' O well...
Thanks for the input guys - appreciated.
He said if the plaster comes off with the old tiles we could maybe aqua-board it too - sounds good as its actually mostly used as a shower.Trouble is this is all potential; 'car money'
O well...Thanks for the input guys - appreciated.
roofer said:
I cant deal with the shame any more mate - its eye wateringly expensive tiles for me now and a mere sliver of silicone at the bottom to posh me up! 
t though HTH.
Closure (and a shower at last tomorrow)! 
LeadFarmer said:
Before our new bath went in, I stripped all the tiles and plater off the walls, back to bare brick. Once the bath was in I sealed it to the brick walls. Then the walls were plastered and again I sealed the bath to the plaster. Then the walls were tiled, where I sealed the bath to the tiles, filling the bath with water each time.
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