What have you been doing today?

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Lirefighter said:
I'm thinking of setting up a forum where people who don't have a clue about certain DIY tasks can ask others who do have a clue, what is best to do. :ROFLMAO:

You should have asked, Mottie!
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I did! I hardly ever get replies when I ask genuine DIY questions though.

Mottie

Thread 'Tile/grout/mastic advice around bath please!'

I’m replacing the bath screen and re-masticking the bath. I’ve removed the screen, removed the taps (will be too difficult to mastic with taps in situ as very little space between taps and wall) and removed the old mastic. My problem is that at the tap end, I have an 11mm gap between the tile edge and the bath top. I filled it with mastic last time I did it but Mrs Mottie says it looks like I’ve just squeezed the toothpaste tube out! What would be the best way to fill that gap and mastic? I was thinking of getting some waterproof grout, go all round the three edges of the bath, let it go...
 
Mottie said:
I did! I hardly ever get replies when I ask genuine DIY questions though.

Mottie

Thread 'Tile/grout/mastic advice around bath please!'

I’m replacing the bath screen and re-masticking the bath. I’ve removed the screen, removed the taps (will be too difficult to mastic with taps in situ as very little space between taps and wall) and removed the old mastic. My problem is that at the tap end, I have an 11mm gap between the tile edge and the bath top. I filled it with mastic last time I did it but Mrs Mottie says it looks like I’ve just squeezed the toothpaste tube out! What would be the best way to fill that gap and mastic? I was thinking of getting some waterproof grout, go all round the three edges of the bath, let it go...
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Should have asked on the GD forum! :whistle:
 
I prefer 785 in wet areas as it has mould resistance.

I was doing the bins today and noticed this on a cheese packet...

Was it disgusting before 1974??

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Just finishing off the bathroom tart up and made a fecking schoolboy error! Fitted the shower screen to the bath, it’s a two piece job, pivots at the wall and just over halfway along. This one:


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(That’s not my bathroom). The wall hinge is a rising butt type so should settle at 90° to the wall. It doesn’t. It settles with the furthest end of the screen about 4” into my bath. At first I thought it was a faulty hinge but I’ve just realised that I lined it up with the grout line of the tiles…and they are not straight! The fixing channel needs to lean out at the top of the screen at the wall by about 10mm (currently leaning in which is why the bath panel leans in). Now, I have to remove the screen, knife out my beautifully and professionally applied clear silicone bead, remove the bracket and fix it again, dead upright this time and reseal it. I could punch myself in the 'ead!
 
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