Wetroom Tanking or Not is The Case.

[White Room]

Had to look at a wetroom as there was some damage into an adjoining bedroom wall, started to remove the mosaic and realised there was no kind of tray.
The timber within the shower area after removing the Travertine had some severe rot.
The guy who rents the property is a solicitor, the remaining floor needs pulling up but seems reluctant to have it done.
A bath is going to replace the shower area, it was done 8 years ago so water has been leaking through for that length of time.

 

[Qwerty]

Scary! Ive seen a lot of this lately! [emoji16][emoji15]

 

[martin1c]

Travertine in a wetroom just doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Don't know why people do it.

 

[dean.diy]

hello Whitebeam, interesting pictures you've taken trouble to show. The waste pipe chased and buried in the wall also don't sound right...apart from the 8 years of floor leak.

 

[Lee@emctiles]

IMHO those mosaics are not suitable for a wetroom base anyway.

I will only recommend a 50x50mm mosaic onto a Delta/Marmox type tray.

 

[swanman]

what a mess

 

[White Room]

hello Whitebeam, interesting pictures you've taken trouble to show. The waste pipe chased and buried in the wall also don't sound right...apart from the 8 years of floor leak.

That waste pipe is for a washing machine

 

[White Room]

IMHO those mosaics are not suitable for a wetroom base anyway.

I will only recommend a 50x50mm mosaic onto a Delta/Marmox type tray.

There was no base Lee, it was just a build up of tile adhesive...

 

[demi34]

That's happens when people try to save money.just finished job last week and I mention to costumer about tanking extra £150.00 oh no to expensive.

 

[mma]

I lost out on job recently due to the cost of extra noggins and a tanking kit!!? They fully deserve what is coming their way!!

 

[Taylormade]

I am surprised it has lasted as long as it has!

 

[Spare Tool]

Last year I had 4 holiday let cottages that I was due to start on the Monday pulled on the Friday because the owner had been in the plumbers merchants and they'd told him tanking was a waste of time so apparently "I must have been trying to rip him off, and what else was I charging him for he didn't need" I was only charging £60 per shower for tanking including mats...
I said i'll happily tile straight onto your plasterboarded shower and forget the tanking but won't guarantee anything. That's the last I heard from him, so I'm guessing he saved himself a fortune...and possibly by now has some nice brown stains on the living room ceilings.
Me and the misses considering hiring one of the holiday lets and giving the shower a run for its money, sure we could 'make' it leak if we tried hard enough :smilewinkgrin:

 

[CJ]

It's unbelievable..........people just don't want to pay for wot they can't see.......regardless of how much info/advice we give them.

F-ing builders/plumbers telling them the wrong info.....or it's not needed doesn't help. I really wish other trades would keep their gobs shut. :mad2:

Builders are the worst......telling people that "you don't need Hardibacker etc etc.......only because plasterboard is easier to put up......or Ditra, because the heated screed is fine to put stone straight on. They do my head in......they know best, and the customer believe everything, and then WE are left to appear the rip of merchant.

Rant over. **yawn**

 

[mhtiler]

do it right or it will be shi*e,
give the customer options,but the cheapest is not always the best.
if i am not happy doing the customers job just because they don`t want to pay,i would walk away.

 

[Spare Tool]

do it right or it will be shi*e,
give the customer options,but the cheapest is not always the best.
if i am not happy doing the customers job just because they don`t want to pay,i would walk away.

The option I gave him was it'll be £240 knocked off the bill and i'll do it his way but won't guarantee anything...its a shame really cuz they would have been decent bathrooms too...nice tiles, mosaic features etc.
Like CJ says plumbers, builders etc should stick to what they know and let us get on with what we know.
Probably be getting a call soon to go and rip them all out n start again