Hi
I'm after some advice on trim for my white plastic bath. I set off to
replace the silicon seal , but in addition there's a gap of 4cm
between the tap end and the wall. A previous owner blocked this in
with wood then covered the wood with horizontal tiles, precariously
held to the wall and bath edge with silicone trim and grout. I've
removed all this as it's got extremely manky with black mould and
probably leaky too.

The question is what to replace the tiles with. If I just replace as
was I think it will still be rubbish. I was thinking of using a single
piece of white plastic over the wood, using something to give it an
angle to drain down, and sealing it to wall and bath with silicon.
Does this sound sensible, or are there better ideas out there?

Anyway I can only find what I want on the web in the USA, like this:
http://tinyurl.com/lowm8a. It seems a pretty simple requirement, can
anyone tell me where I can get a piece of plastic like this in the UK?
Maybe I'm using the wrong words in Google.

All help gratefully received|
Ken

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Hi
I'm after some advice on trim for my white plastic bath. I set off to
replace the silicon seal , but in addition there's a gap of 4cm
between the tap end and the wall. A previous owner blocked this in
with wood then covered the wood with horizontal tiles, precariously
held to the wall and bath edge with silicone trim and grout. I've
removed all this as it's got extremely manky with black mould and
probably leaky too.

The question is what to replace the tiles with. If I just replace as
was I think it will still be rubbish. I was thinking of using a single
piece of white plastic over the wood, using something to give it an
angle to drain down, and sealing it to wall and bath with silicon.
Does this sound sensible, or are there better ideas out there?

Anyway I can only find what I want on the web in the USA, like this:
http://tinyurl.com/lowm8a. It seems a pretty simple requirement, can
anyone tell me where I can get a piece of plastic like this in the UK?
Maybe I'm using the wrong words in Google.

Take a trip to your local window installation/manufacturing co.
Ask them for some trim of the shape you need and exchange beer tokens with
them.

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:44:32 +0100, Ken
wrote:

Hi
I'm after some advice on trim for my white plastic bath. I set off to
replace the silicon seal , but in addition there's a gap of 4cm
between the tap end and the wall. A previous owner blocked this in
with wood then covered the wood with horizontal tiles, precariously
held to the wall and bath edge with silicone trim and grout. I've
removed all this as it's got extremely manky with black mould and
probably leaky too.

The question is what to replace the tiles with. If I just replace as
was I think it will still be rubbish. I was thinking of using a single
piece of white plastic over the wood, using something to give it an
angle to drain down, and sealing it to wall and bath with silicon.
Does this sound sensible, or are there better ideas out there?

Anyway I can only find what I want on the web in the USA, like this:
http://tinyurl.com/lowm8a. It seems a pretty simple requirement, can
anyone tell me where I can get a piece of plastic like this in the UK?
Maybe I'm using the wrong words in Google.

All help gratefully received|
Ken

I had a similar problem with the bath prior to my current one.There
was quite a large gap which I filled in with silicone etc but I got a
piece of trim from Homebase( I think Trend Plastics made it) and
fitted it at an angle on one short and one long side of the bath ..It
was hard plastic and I think it was intended to be placed above a row
of tiles to set them off . It wasn't just a plain rectangular
shape...the long edges were shaped nicely I just fixed it with
silicone and finished the gap in with silicone in the usual way and
the water ran off it quite well.





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