Leaking bath waste but bath is tiled in

thezappa · 12 Oct 2018 at 21:32

Participant said:
Good shout regards fan heater.

Pardon my ignorance but what's a tiled hatch and why is it preferable to siliconing the tile?

Like this:

https://www.accesspanels.co.uk/tile-door-hinged/

I’m sure many other options available, but for housing association housing access hatches are a common spec item to get to isolation valves. In your case though you’d be looking at something more up market (like this) given the spec of the bathroom.

Participant · 13 Oct 2018 at 17:39

All back together and no leaks so far...

Hard to see how those tile hatches are undetectable once installed. I'll take my chances with the silicone method.

jpaul · 14 Oct 2018 at 12:47

ooi - is having a trap configuration ('U' lower than connection point) on an over-flow pipe desirable ?

( slightly different but I have this for washing machine joining sink, but have wondered if sink waste could accumulate at base of 'U' )

rexehuk · 14 Oct 2018 at 16:01

The amount of ptfe on that... Seems weird he used PTFE on a fitting with o ring, don't think I'd have done that.

Good that it's sorted, hope it doesn't leak again but don't think it's the right way to fix it!

Participant · 17 Oct 2018 at 10:24

Just to close this one out, the tile is back on using matching silicone so it should be easily removable if any further issues:

Still no leaks so far, though the ceiling below will need stripping and a skim.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 17 Oct 2018 at 12:23

Looks pretty good to be honest.

IMHO its the only way to have access reasonably available is to silicon it on.
I suppose you could maybe grout over silicon if you could get it to hold in place, that way its perfectly matched, but you could cut through the grout and silicon if needed.

samcat · 17 Oct 2018 at 13:09

I bet nobody would notice the difference on that tile unless you pointed it out to them.

Make sure you add the 'secret entrance' to the house manual/folder of documents so any future owner also knows how to get under the bath if needed.

Tony Edwards · 17 Oct 2018 at 19:36

Participant said:
Just to close this one out, the tile is back on using matching silicone so it should be easily removable if any further issues:

Still no leaks so far, though the ceiling below will need stripping and a skim.

Thats all well and good but to me it looks like he put the tile on upside down. Id get him back to fix that!

NvidiaDan · 19 Oct 2018 at 20:24

In what way does that look upside down?