Post by jcplumb on Jun 20, 2016 21:00:53 GMT
Tomorrow I'm going back to a job I quoted for last week.
Problem was that the ceiling plaster about 10 foot away underneath a shower was getting wet after the shower was used. Been going on some time and you can see where the plaster has been wet.
It's a 3 walled shower with a glass door at the front, all 3 walls are tiled and the grout is far from perfect, the silicone at the bottom is a mess too.
I originally said I'd remove the bottom couple of rows of tiles and re-stick them, then regrout and do the silicone properly but I'm having second thoughts. 2 of the walls are stud walls and there was no movement at all when I looked, so I'm thinking of not removing any tiles, just regrouting and siliconing. Reason being that stud walls are a pain in the arse, especially when you're chopping bits out and then having to jigsaw-puzzle new bits of plasterboard etc. before being able to re-stick tiles.
The waste pipe is under the tiled floor and the customer would like to not have the ceilings damaged, there is a small hatch under there but you can only feel a couple of feet of pipe before it goes round a corner and all the pipe was dry that I could feel. It was solvent welded waste so doubt any fitting on it are to blame, but it does run in the direction of the damp patch, but so do the joists.
My guess was that the water must be getting behind the tiles or through the dodgy silicone work and running along a joist or something similar as the pipe was dry for the couple of feet I could feel.
So what do you reckon? Would you do the same as me? I have told the customer that if this doesn't fix it then I'll have to start cutting into ceilings.
Any opinions?
Problem was that the ceiling plaster about 10 foot away underneath a shower was getting wet after the shower was used. Been going on some time and you can see where the plaster has been wet.
It's a 3 walled shower with a glass door at the front, all 3 walls are tiled and the grout is far from perfect, the silicone at the bottom is a mess too.
I originally said I'd remove the bottom couple of rows of tiles and re-stick them, then regrout and do the silicone properly but I'm having second thoughts. 2 of the walls are stud walls and there was no movement at all when I looked, so I'm thinking of not removing any tiles, just regrouting and siliconing. Reason being that stud walls are a pain in the arse, especially when you're chopping bits out and then having to jigsaw-puzzle new bits of plasterboard etc. before being able to re-stick tiles.
The waste pipe is under the tiled floor and the customer would like to not have the ceilings damaged, there is a small hatch under there but you can only feel a couple of feet of pipe before it goes round a corner and all the pipe was dry that I could feel. It was solvent welded waste so doubt any fitting on it are to blame, but it does run in the direction of the damp patch, but so do the joists.
My guess was that the water must be getting behind the tiles or through the dodgy silicone work and running along a joist or something similar as the pipe was dry for the couple of feet I could feel.
So what do you reckon? Would you do the same as me? I have told the customer that if this doesn't fix it then I'll have to start cutting into ceilings.
Any opinions?
