Bath Seal Problem

[mcmaddy]

The seal around my bath has started leaking onto my kitchen ceiling. Ive tried Silicon where tiles meet trim and also forced Silicon under trim to try and seal. Nothing has worked. The gap from the bottom of my tiles to the top edge of bath is the size of the large quadrant trim (the one that sits behind the tiles etc) Ive seen a few people recommend tele seal on here but i dont know if i have a small enough gap for it to work. I just want to cut the rubbish bath seal out but am afraid the gap will be to huge to fill. I was thinking of putting the Aqua boards straight over the top of the tiles but that would cause my wife much anxiety as she loves the tiles! Any ideas and advice would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou

 

[doug boardley]

is there any way you can wind the legs up on your bath, and do away with the bath seal? I know this would mean taking the first row of tiles off, (maybe ease the bath into the wall more too). It may seem a drastic course of action but it's unacceptable as it is.

 

[Olz]

Can you post up any photographs, the concern with resealing it and leaving it, is that if its already leaking through the ceiling below, then there is already going to be alot of damage underneath, and in the walls.

It may be best to take the oppertunity to have the room retiled completly, and the damage to the walls, floorboards and ceiling below repaired, before it gets any worse.

 

[david campbell]

i would agree with the above and remove the bath and repair the floor and downstairs ceiling,if you have some spare tiles you may not need to re-tile the entire bathroom just around the bath

 

[mcmaddy]

Thanks for the quick responses. The bath cant be moved up. The wall below the bath doesnt look bad/wet. The tiling and bathromm was only done about 3 years ago so am reluctant to start ripping tiles off. Would the Tele seal stuff be any good? Do I have an option without ripping tiles off etc

 

[mcmaddy]

Anyone got any more ideas withput ripping the bathroom to bits??

 

[gm140]

it sounds like its either rip it out:mad2: or put a bucket in the kitchen:lol:

Graeme
ETL Pro Tiling

 

[Colour Republic]

Anyone got any more ideas withput ripping the bathroom to bits??

It's much easier to advise if you could post some pictures

 

[paulyoung666]

if there is water dripping through the ceiling then i would be very surprised if the bathroom floor / joists are not soaked , you need to get back to the structure of the house to make sure all is ok

 

[macten]

Seen this loads of times. Using teleseal is like putting a sticky plaster on a broken arm. For the sake of a few tiles get bath out and then sort - leave it too long like that and it gets very expensive.

That was the kitchen ceiling of my last job - bathroom walls were fine but floorboards were mush as was the kitchen ceiling.