Do you bother to tank a bathrom floor ?

[guy1976]

Sorry Guy nosey again, around how much is the excess on your insurance m8 150, 200 say

:sleeping2: are you trying to shift more products wetdec

 

[wetdec]

Not at all just pointing out a valid reason for tanking a floor in a bathroom m8 and i like a nudge to keep me on my toes

 

[DHTiling]

This will ony work though if the whole floor is done..i.e under bath...otherwise any water will seep in that way......also around any pipe work etc......cracks at the floor edges and so on........but i know where you are coming from wetdec as regarding stopping leaks to downstairs ceilings.....nice idea but not always practical....

 

[guy1976]

Sorry Guy nosey again, around how much is the excess on your insurance m8 150, 200 say,

So your bathroom leaks through your boards and shows itself on your lounge ceiling.

Your insurance company will give you 400 quid to sort the ceiling out less your excess of 150 so your getting 250.

You get a builder to sort it who tramps around your home for 3 days making a mess and totally stressing you and your family out, pain in the arse plus someone has to let them in and out.


A 5m2 roll of membrane and tape can be bought for 75 quid and its 2 hours work so say 35 quid 110 quid total to tank the floor.


Thats 40 quid less than your excess oh and your ceiling doesnt have a watermark either.

Where is the rip off please share ??

nice edit

 

[wetdec]

No well I fully understand that and make no mention of every job but I do say there is a valid reason and a point to be made with customers without it being a rip off

 

[wetdec]

nice edit

Sorry wasnt intentional both writing at the same time !!

 

[Paddyh2]

Enough

I think I'll get the attic and the kitchen tanked.:yes:

 

[Deleted member 1779]

My tiler uses BAL tanking kit. Paints and Bonds everything he can and tapes out all the corners with the mesh.

At the start of the job he offers the kit to me and shows me the price. About £50 a tub. So I bought two tubs and bal-bonded everything in site. Including the neighbours cat... (well nearly) because its my home and I thought for the extra £50 its peace of mind.

My wet room is built on 12mm ply which he laid down prior to me tanking it. Then a week later he put the porclain tiles down with flexible adhesive.

The problem with me was that I felt I need to "Get my monies worth" and so every night for a week I would walk about the site with my grey paint brush painting and repainting the BalBond over everything with the idea that its belts and braces.

Apparently this is not the thing to do and the advice was that I might have over done it. So there was no guarantee after that.. Opps.

Result? This is my wet room four years on.

So far.... NO LEAKS !!

PS: For those of you who have bought 365diamond drills from us **Yes** that is the shower in the packshot. And yes we did use the drills to place the body jets slap bang in the middle of 600x300mm very hard tiles.

 

[Daywalker]

Not had to tank a bathroom floor to date and i've fitted many bathroom suites/tiled, to many to remember but i've been asked to fit a "wet room" once last year which involved knocking a load bearing wall down and move a door way.
Needles to say a made my excuses and left.

PS all the floor joists were going the wrong way for the waste pipe!!!!!!!:huh2:

 

[bootsmckiber]

All this talk about getting tanked,think I'll go out and get tanked myself.cheers.
Mike

 

[Daz]

I've used Ardex WPC for walls and Tilesafe for wetroom floors and "dodgy" walls (i.e. plywood or MDF), but never thought about tanking a bathroom floor - might start discussing it with customers though.

If you give them the choice, you are only offering a professional opinion and not trying to rip them off, surely??