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Leaking Shower
Any suggestions for a bitumen type sealant material to ensure a watertight
shower enclosure. After about 12 years or so the plasterwork behind the shower has given up the ghost! I propose to strip everything out - plasterboard it out - then use pva adhesive - then, and this came out of a conversation with a builder, apply this bitumen type product - didn't catch a name - as he-was-going-to-do-the-job-but-didn't-turn-up-typical-story! And finally re-tile. Any ideas what he might have been referring to - sounds like a good tip. tia Hugh |
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Hugh wrote:
Any suggestions for a bitumen type sealant material to ensure a watertight shower enclosure. After about 12 years or so the plasterwork behind the shower has given up the ghost! I propose to strip everything out - plasterboard it out - then use pva Plasterboard is not a good choice for this... it will fail very quickly if it gets wet. Either use one of the special products designed for this application (e.g. Aquapanel) or or use WBP ply. If you go the WBP route and install the tray, and then render over the ply (you will need to staple expanded metal lath over it first) and down onto the tray (thus ensuring any water getting through the tiles will meet another waterproof layer still end up falling onto the tray and not down beside it). Glue tiles using a waterproof adhesive - use a full bed of it (3mm thick) not just ribs on the surface. Grout after with waterproof grout. As a final step treating it with something like Lithofin stain stop will keep it looking nice and further resist passage of water. Don't forget the copious use of a good sanitary silicone sealant at each stage. adhesive - then, and this came out of a conversation with a builder, apply this bitumen type product - didn't catch a name - as he-was-going-to-do-the-job-but-didn't-turn-up-typical-story! And finally re-tile. Any ideas what he might have been referring to - sounds like a good tip. Probably nothing wrong with the product, but I would rather make sure the water is not going to get into the wrong place in the first place ;-) -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Thanks John for your detailed reply - Aquapanel it is!
Have looked at it before and appears a good product. cheers Hugh so it's off to Wickes I go! |
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