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The wall is where a shower used to be, the wall was not properly tanked and would have been absorbing water for some time from the showers. This was completely unknown to me until I removed the tiles because I noticed alot of mould forming on the silicone and grout. The previous workmen have...

Hi I recently stripped off my bathroom wall tiles, and the wall behind is in quite bad condition. A lot of craters, loose and crumbly bits and so forth. I want to repair this, but I am unsure whether I should use a one coat plaster mix, or put a sand and cement base layer and a top coat...

Sure, the floor is concrete. it does not move no matter how much weight it put on it. So a human in the shower wont cause any movement on the sealant for wall to floor fixing. I think as the base is concrete, perhaps the water is permeating through the grout and tiles and soaking into the...

My shower is basically layed out as below, there is no door or shower tray: ___________________ |------------O-----------X |-------------------------X |-------------------------X |-------------------------X |-------------------------X |--------------------------...

Thank you very much for your time and efficient understanding of the problem. I have contacted the builder, although he guaranteed his work 2 years, he seems very reluctant in replying to me, but I will continue to pursue him. The floor of the shower is not a tray. In fact, the floor is...

OK, you know your stuff and I think you are spot on, with water containment you need to use everything at your disposal, so in my case, I should have hoped the builder used aqua panel, membrane, epoxy grout and adhesive! But I suspect they didnt use the membrane, just my hunch. So should...

OK thanks! But suppose there is no membrane, and each shower taken water is permeating through. What course of actions could I possibly take? Either shower side? Or, hallway wall side?

The shower is like a 3 sided cubicle, wet room type thing, the entrance is partially covered glass bricks 50%, and 50% so you can access in and out. The other 3 sides are mosaic tiled. And so is the floor which has a central drainage point which runs out of the house. Anyway: So my plan...

I have checked throughly, there is no shower tray, the floor itself is tiled with mosaics and again grouted with epoxy. all tiles and grout on the floor and sides of the shower are perfect.

Hi everyone I had a new shower area fitted about a year ago, the shower is tiled mosaic on aqua panel and epoxy(water resistant) grout. However, I noticed the wall paper peeling at the bottom of the wall that is on the other side of the shower wall. _______ | | | shower | |_______...

I want to take on a project myself this spring, but Im unsure whats the best approach for removing the current paint. I want to strip the paint backon the external masonry, currently looks like a lot of layers from decades, peeling away, then Id like to prime it and repaint. I was thinking...

4 months ago I had a new bathroom installed, by a Polish guy... You can see where this is going already cant you... Well, a couple of weeks back, I noticed quite alot of these little black flies started appearing, and no matter how much fly killer I used, they just kept coming back...