We have had a small leak on the bath for a while so its time I got around to fixing it.
I think the bath was installed wrong in the first place - the taps are at one end which is tight up against the wall, and the other end is 2.5 inches away from the wall and has an electric show over it. (I would have thought the shower end would be better close to the wall?). I dont want to move the bath if I can help it.
The leak is at the shower end. There is 2.5 inch wide piece of wood fastened to the wall to fill in the gap, on top of that I found a half inch thick layer of grey hard stuff (a little bit flexible) which seems to be saturated with water - not sure what this is? Then there are some tiles over the top that joins the tiled wall to the top of the bath.
What happens is the bath moves slightly when you are in it (either full of water of just standing in the shower). Even with the stands under the bath tightened up the end of the bath flexes enough the stress and break the silicon seal around the tiles/edging strip. I think I need to either put something under the end of the bath to stop it moving, or attach a wider bit of wood under the 2.5" filler piece that goes under the bath rim so they cant move relative to each other.
Any thoughts on an easy way to fix this?
thanks.
oh, I missed out the tile edging strip from the diagram - it is one of those things that sits under the tile and has a quadrant in front of the tile. I wonder what the best way of sealing the edging/tile/bath junction is because there seems to have been tile adhesive there before.
I think the bath was installed wrong in the first place - the taps are at one end which is tight up against the wall, and the other end is 2.5 inches away from the wall and has an electric show over it. (I would have thought the shower end would be better close to the wall?). I dont want to move the bath if I can help it.
The leak is at the shower end. There is 2.5 inch wide piece of wood fastened to the wall to fill in the gap, on top of that I found a half inch thick layer of grey hard stuff (a little bit flexible) which seems to be saturated with water - not sure what this is? Then there are some tiles over the top that joins the tiled wall to the top of the bath.
What happens is the bath moves slightly when you are in it (either full of water of just standing in the shower). Even with the stands under the bath tightened up the end of the bath flexes enough the stress and break the silicon seal around the tiles/edging strip. I think I need to either put something under the end of the bath to stop it moving, or attach a wider bit of wood under the 2.5" filler piece that goes under the bath rim so they cant move relative to each other.
Any thoughts on an easy way to fix this?
thanks.
oh, I missed out the tile edging strip from the diagram - it is one of those things that sits under the tile and has a quadrant in front of the tile. I wonder what the best way of sealing the edging/tile/bath junction is because there seems to have been tile adhesive there before.
Not sure if the bath side panel would fit well in the new position either...
