5 years since I tore my house apart and rebuilt it the shower is leaking big time. Spent time stripping sealant, resealing etc - sticking plaster repairs - until for the last week when we have a shower upstairs a puddle forms on the kitchen sideboard (worryingly dribbling out from a plug socket eeek!).
So I bit the bullet and today I tore it out. What a mess. Turns out the builders did as I asked and lined the shower cubicle with ply (not marine ply mind), but then decided to cover that with plasterboard and then install the shower/tile.
The plasterboard had disintegrated behind the tiles. Water was running down the back of the tiles and behind the double mastic seal.
When i took off the shower doors the tiles fell off with the backing paper in one huge wall and nearly killed me!
10 bags of rubble, a shed load of mould and ruined plasterboard and a lot of cleaning up later and I now have to replace the whole lot.
Some of the floor boards are now rotten so I'll have to tear up the tiled floor and replace the floor entirely - hopefully the joists are still sound (yikes).
Anyway I can deal with all that but what next?
Has anyone had any experience of shower cabins? I want to stop this ever happening again and thought maybe nows the chance to upgrade.
I found this cabin. Which seams pretty cheap, will save a load of tiling etc.
What are these things like? Worth the effort?
If not what would you recommend I line a new enclosure with? Is there a specific board I should use that I can then tile upon?
Pointers greatly appreciated.
So I bit the bullet and today I tore it out. What a mess. Turns out the builders did as I asked and lined the shower cubicle with ply (not marine ply mind), but then decided to cover that with plasterboard and then install the shower/tile.
The plasterboard had disintegrated behind the tiles. Water was running down the back of the tiles and behind the double mastic seal.
When i took off the shower doors the tiles fell off with the backing paper in one huge wall and nearly killed me!
10 bags of rubble, a shed load of mould and ruined plasterboard and a lot of cleaning up later and I now have to replace the whole lot.
Some of the floor boards are now rotten so I'll have to tear up the tiled floor and replace the floor entirely - hopefully the joists are still sound (yikes).
Anyway I can deal with all that but what next?
Has anyone had any experience of shower cabins? I want to stop this ever happening again and thought maybe nows the chance to upgrade.
I found this cabin. Which seams pretty cheap, will save a load of tiling etc.
What are these things like? Worth the effort?
If not what would you recommend I line a new enclosure with? Is there a specific board I should use that I can then tile upon?
Pointers greatly appreciated.