"Bill Reece" wrote in message
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I have a 3 yr old home and it appears when the "plumbers" installed my tub
they used a prybar in the drain to position it and cracked it. They then
hired a professional to repair it. Well, it started leaking from the
upstairs to my bathroom downstairs. I couldn't find it so I replaced the
qauter round and re caulked it. The put in a shower door. I'm thinking
the whole time that my teenagers are just being sloppy and it's leaking
around the tub because I couldn't see it in the tub. And when I
disassembled the faucet/shower I couldn't find a leak. I kept looking and
decided to re putty the drain. It still leaked. That's when I finally
noticed the hairline border around the repaired crack! arrgghh. Of course
I contacted the builder and they had a good laugh I'm sure.

anyway, the crack appears to be about 2" long on the floor of the tub and
about 1/2" wide in the center. I have to assume it goes down the drain as
well because the leakage slowed considerably when I reputtied it.

For now I just want to stop the leak with some adhesive. The tub is you
basic molded plastic/fiberglass(?) shower/tub combo. I imagine in the
future I will have to rip it out and put in a completely different type of
tub, unless I decide to take the dorr out to fit a molded one back in.

Any and all suggestions are appreciated and welcome.

thanks, Bill

I just had my builder, thier plumber, and a tub repair guy here looking at
my upstairs tub. They had thier repair guy look at it and he determined it
not to be a repair but a factory defect. So, they want to know if I want it
patched or replaced. A lot to consider here because of the framed in tub
would be a big job and a lot of inconvience whereas a patch would be quick
and they say very reliable. I'm going to research it some. But I am just
glad they are going to do something about it. And they all seemed very
honest and forthright about it. I think maybe the earlier response was a
bad call by the warranty company.

Does anyone know how reliable these patches are?

Thanks