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Tanking out this shower, it's the 3rd one I've done in as many weeks where the plumbers have fitted this seal strip round the tray as they state it's waterproof!! I've given this shower it's 1st coat of paste & then ran a bead of Silicon up the 2 internals ready for corner tapes. It got me...

Got a job to quote for a customer who has specified that she wants the floor tanking. It's not a wet room or anything but she wants belts and braces approach, which is fair enough. The subfloor is t&g floorboards, so was thinking of overboarding with 6mm Hardie and then tanking with paste and...

Hi Guys, This is my first post so please be gentle! I will be as brief as I can Basically I am creating 2 x new showers in a house (it’s a new student let house). One is a 800 x 800 corner unit, the other is a 1000 x 760 rectangular built in unit. Both new bathrooms have been created using...

How come that the showers that I tile do not fail? I have probably used a tanking system about 3 times (one job, Media City specified all the shower enclosures to be tanked but not the bath/shower combos) on separate jobs. None of my showers fail and I have tiled on every substrate and used...

Bathroom will be tiled soon, probably upto a week from now. However to save time I dont mind tanking the over bath area myself. I have bought an aquaseal kit, in the various steps listed it says a minimum of 6 hours between first and second coat of tanking membrane. Hence time wasted around...

Can anyone help. I understand that in wet areas before tiling the surface should be prepared correftly. I see these terms all over to web and used interchangeably: Primer, tanking, sbr, bond, pva and some others that sound similar. Can anyone explain the correct procedure for preparing...

I'm looking to help a friend out by resealing there shower tray before they have a more major problem. Ideally I should rip out what is installed and start again but sadly there is not enough money in the pot for that. The shower is in an alcove, is not tanked and has suffered a very minor leak...

ordered a tanking kit today to put on my hardibacker covered bath/shower but am left wondering if ive made a mistake? i popped into a tile shop tonight and the guy there said why didnt i just paint it with £9 SBR as not only is it a primer, it waterproofs too!!! comments appreciated

Anyone know the weight limits on walls once they have been tanked ?.......just curious if fixing with large format.

the bath has a 18mm ply covered in 6mm hardibacker behind the taps, concrete rendered wall/window by one of its long sides and a shower screen along the other. as the shower will be spraying away from the hardibacker wall, is there any point in tanking?

We want to get our small wet room tiled, it's 2.4m x 1.5m and has a concrete floor, we had an extension built in 2008 but never got round to tiling it. At the time we bought a Tilesafe kit which we still have, the bitumen based membrane seems fine as do the rolls of reinforcing strip, we would...

How much do you pay for your tanking kit? Just picked one up this morning from my tile shop that I use, £42 +vat trade price, comes with tape and primer and 2 corners

I've got a couple of jobs coming up with a fresh bathroom, freshly boarded and plastered walls, small tiles, including two shower areas, I'm gonna tank the wet areas first, it's a shame the shower tray is already fitted as I'm gonna have to tank down to it, was thinking just masking tape it and...

HI I have bought the homelux tanking system and are just wondering how I should go about sealing round and integrated shower and radiator pipes any advice would be much appreciated images attached

Hi all. I've got a wetroom to do with a pumped screed floor and wondering what would be the best method of tanking it. The floor has wet ufh and using silver trav. Thanks in advance.

getting closer to the time when I'll be thinking about what to apply to the walls around the shower area before tiling. What do you guys use, what's better, membranes type of system or paint on type.

Hi Building a pool soon that will need to be waterproofed ready for tiling. I have previously built 3 pools that had a liner finish so this will be the first pool that I have rendered and then tiled the interior so if anyone has any advise on this forum it would be much appreciated. I can buy...

Which waterproof tanking system do you use to tank your showers / bathrooms / wetrooms? If your product isn't on the list let me know and I'll add it. I've pulled up the names from an old thread. So they might have changed now. If they have, let me know and I'll change them on the poll.

Hello all, I am a tradesperson but do not know a great deal about tanking for a wet room -I've done a lot of research but remain undecided. I was going to go with the BAL WP1 system but TOPPS no longer sell this and are now pushing the BAL Waterproof plus instead ( a trowel on type plaster)...

OK guys i have a swimming pool to do in this system , and was wondering if anyone had used this one before and if you had any advise or tips for me :-D