I recently moved into a new house, the first thing I did was completely gut the downstairs bathroom, removing a ghastly pink suite. Although there was signs of previous damp beside the bath, it was now completely bone dry. I had a nice new white suite put in and my father tiled the walls around the shower/ bath.
The bathroom looked absolutely superb with sparkling white tiles. After a few weeks I noticed that the tile grout around a small section above the bath had fine cracks in it and the grout around 12 or so tiles was badly discoloured. I know that grout discolours easily but this was ridiculous. Then I noticed that the 12 or so tiles were starting to go grey instead of being white.
A few days later after inspecting the tiles again, I noticed one looked a bit loose and it came off really easily. The tile was totally soaking all the way through, they are bathroom tiles by the way! and the wall behind was soaking wet. At first I thought maybe the water had got into the cracks when having showers but it seems far too wet for this and the grout was real hard but the adhesive was soft. I thought maybe water was leaking in from elsewhere behind but I can't find anything at all, there are no pipes near and the wall is dry at the bottom and at the top, just a middle section of wall is wet. The wall itself is solid, it is a compacted straw type of plasterboard and so the source of the water is a complete mystery.
Could water leaking in through tiny cracks in the grout be enough to soak the wall so badly in such a short space of time. Please can someone help.
The bathroom looked absolutely superb with sparkling white tiles. After a few weeks I noticed that the tile grout around a small section above the bath had fine cracks in it and the grout around 12 or so tiles was badly discoloured. I know that grout discolours easily but this was ridiculous. Then I noticed that the 12 or so tiles were starting to go grey instead of being white.
A few days later after inspecting the tiles again, I noticed one looked a bit loose and it came off really easily. The tile was totally soaking all the way through, they are bathroom tiles by the way! and the wall behind was soaking wet. At first I thought maybe the water had got into the cracks when having showers but it seems far too wet for this and the grout was real hard but the adhesive was soft. I thought maybe water was leaking in from elsewhere behind but I can't find anything at all, there are no pipes near and the wall is dry at the bottom and at the top, just a middle section of wall is wet. The wall itself is solid, it is a compacted straw type of plasterboard and so the source of the water is a complete mystery.
Could water leaking in through tiny cracks in the grout be enough to soak the wall so badly in such a short space of time. Please can someone help.