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Default Bath Screen Hinge Leaking

On 16/10/2011 19:16, Mathew Newton wrote:
On Oct 16, 11:27 am, Andrew wrote:

My gut feeling is that there should be some form of seal in the hinge,
perhaps an O ring of sorts although there is no evidence of a groove for
this.


The hinge does have seal (item 10 in your fitting instructions)
however it may well be that water that hits this and runs is free to
run out of the bottom. To remedy, it might be worth considering
sealing the base on the outside as per step 8 of the instructions from
this similarly-designed screen from Coram:

http://www.coram.co.uk/pdfs/Frameles...nel%2006 .pdf

(I recently fitted one of these without the fixed panel portion, and
sealed it as advised without any problems)

Mathew


Useful instructions. Thanks. Much better than mine. The seal along the
spline (item 10 that you point out) is fine. The problem is the hinge at
the bottom (item 13). There is no seal between that and the turning
joint. Water from the shower can enter that and re-emerge on the wrong
side. That is where and O ring might be useful although there is no
croove to accommoadate one.

Andrew