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    Bath Trap - Optimum Water Seal

    Hi Everyone I was wondering if someone could help ? What is the optimum water seal for a bath trap ? I tried to fit a trap with a 75mm seal, but there is not sufficient space to get it in, without cutting away part of the flooring. A trap with a 50mm seal goes in fine, but I wondered if...
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    Ideas for sealing a roll top cast iron bath to the wall ?

    As the heading, looking for ideas for sealing a roll top bath to the wall as well as how to deal with the corner where the bath has a significant radius? Sealing it where it contacts the wall on the straight edge will create a channel which will tend to accumulate water. Tony
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    Your favourite method of sealing the tile/bath joint

    No silicone thankyou!! What's your favourite method of sealing onto the rim of a bath? Existing bath - 60s, enamelled - has quadrant tiles which have lasted pretty well, do not leak and are not loose. New bath - Villeroy and Boch - made of quartz/acrylic, should be pretty rigid. Unfortunately...
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    Sealing around a bath with a big gap

    We had somebody in to put a brand new bath in our bathroom and basically the guy has left the bath moving too much as he hasn't fixed it properly to the wall. We have tried numerous times to seal around with silicone but it always fails in the corner where the movement is most. I have silicone...
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    Sealing around a bath with a big gap

    We had somebody in to put a brand new bath in our bathroom and basically the guy has left the bath moving too much as he hasn't fixed it properly to the wall. We have tried numerous times to seal around with silicone but it always fails in the corner where the movement is most. I have silicone...
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    Sealing around a bath with a big gap

    We had somebody in to put a brand new bath in our bathroom and basically the guy has left the bath moving too much as he hasn't fixed it properly to the wall. We have tried numerous times to seal around with silicone but it always fails in the corner where the movement is most. I have silicone...
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    Bath surround and seal problem.

    Hello, Around our bath we had a row of mosaic tiles that are tiled over the top of the tiled wall. Over time the grout has cracked and water has got behind so I removed them over the weekend. Behind the titles were wet and the grout crumbled off easily but I’ve discovered a large gap at...
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    Sealing a new bath

    Over Christmas I started to refit our bathroom, I'm limited time wise since going back to work so just trying to do little bits. However I had ripped the full bathroom out, I moved all the plumbing to suit the new bathroom suite and I Aquaboarded the walls round the shower end of the bath. I...
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    seal on P shaped shower bath screen

    I bought a P shaped shower bath and screen on ebay (new) - my first mistake. The seal that came with it was too short and barely touched the bath. In short the company I bought it from promised a bigger seal but did not deliver. I bought the only deeper seal I could find on the...
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    Best way to fit and seal around a bath

    I have searched through all the various questions and replies regarding the best way to seal around a bath. It would appear that conventional wisdom for the right way to do this is as follows: Step 1 - Tile wall to 1 tile depth above the bath Step 2 - Fit bath and, optional, build timber...
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    Leaky bath seal

    Hi Folks I wonder if you can help me. We have a small cottage that we let and I keep on having problems with water leaking to the ceiling below. I have scraped it out and re sealed with silicone three times now but it starts leaking again. I notice that the bath was moving a little when you...
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    Bath Seal After Fit

    Hi All I need to put some kind of retro fit between my tiling and the bath i want to install. I have seen these Bath Seal After Fit things which look like an L shape with rubber edges. Any ideas how these are installed? Obviously i know where they go but i cant seem to fathom how they would be...
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    Sealing bath

    I know this has been asked before, as I have read it, but for me the search option isn't working! Anyway, as some of you have seen from my previous post I was having a little trouble with my bathroom. I took a shower today and as the bath pannel was off I noticed a section of the wall behind...
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    Grout & seal or seal & grount

    Morning folks, Any chance you could settle a discussion between me and my better half: - Just doing the tiles in the bathroom from the bath and sink upwards, the tiles are going up on the wall a treat, and we're about ready to grout round the tiles and silicone seal betwen the tiles and the...
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    Should the bath taps be sealed?

    I've just moved into a new place and there seems to be a gap between the bath taps and the tiles. Looks like there was once grout there. Should I put silicone to seal the gap between the bath taps and tiles? And I was taking photographs, I noticed this hard white stuff under one of the...
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    Leaking bath tap seal

    Well last years bathroom project is coming along quite well now, hell we might even have a working loo and basin by the weekend. The bath mixer tap gasket appears to be leaking though, it only happens when lots of water is splashed around the taps. I've tried re-seating the tap but i think...
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    Bath shower screen door sealing at the bottom corner problem

    I've just fitted a hinged bath shower screen that i'm having trouble getting to seal. I've siliconed the fixed panel to the bath and the tiled wall with no problems, but i can't get the wiper seals that clip on to the fixed panel and the hinged panels to seal properly where they join at the...
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    Just sealed bath, now creaky

    Hi, Not sure if this is totally the right forum, but you guys obviously do a fair bit if bath install work. At the w/e just finished the first step of new bath install. The bath is a plastic bath on a steel frame with feet that screw to the floor. Screwed a batten against the wall to...
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    bath tap seal leaking when shower used

    If a bath tap is leaking.through the seal between the tap and.the bath. Is it best taking the tap off re-aligning the washer and perhaps with some silicone. Then re attach the 62s with new washers. Any way of doing it without removing the tap?
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    Sealux: is it any good for sealing tile to a bath

    I have had a look at Sealux's website and the Sealux Reg 20 looks just what I need for sealing the area around my bath to the tiles (which I am about to lay). I just wanted to know if anyone had used it and if it was any good (at the mo finding a stockist is proving a problem so not sure if...
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