Yesterday I received a visit from daughter and M. Now M is a plumber so he came to sort out the problem of poor sealant in the shower uncovered by the spray mould killer. He did a wonderful job of stripping out the old sealant and putting on new. He also pointed out another error made by those cowboy plumbers who put my shower in, they had applied sealant to the bottom of the shower cabinet thus blocking the run off of any water; apparently you should only put sealant between the shower cabinet and the walls.
It looks so good now and I have of course had a great shower this morning.
Meanwhile daughter and I had a great blether over cups of tea and she even sewed on a button on my raincoat, making a much better job of it than I could.
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Hmmmm.... cowboy plumbers... lean, tough men with sun-creased faces in leather chaps and tight jeans, coming to your house to fix your plumbing....
Who cares if they don't know how to caulk!
*grin*
- M
Sadly rhis lot were the British version, pale faces, all but one overweight and this one displayed his builders bum. Nice.
I am really interested in what you've learnt about showers and sealant. We have a tiled shower cubicle, and there is sealant between the bottom of the tiles and the top of the shower tray. However hard I try to keep the sealant clean it eventually grows an unsightly black mould and has to be replaced.
What you say suggests maybe there shouldn't be any sealant between the tiles and the shower tray.
But Homebase - see Fig 4 at http://www.homebase.co.uk/wcsstore/homebase/assets/ht_install_shower.pdf
seem to suggest there should be.
Well, I wonder.
It might be easier to keep the mould at bay if there was no sealant, but then there would be nothing to stop splashes escaping.
Any further thoughts on this would be appreciated. I rather like the idea of elderly ladies (in fact all ladies) being sufficiently well educated on practical matters to be able to challenge rogue plumbers etc who do't do things right. I also like doing some of these jobs myself, although my attempts with sealant have tended to be a bit wobbly.
to elderly lady in training: from what I have gathered it is only within the shower cubicle that there should be no sealant. My cubicle has two sides, the other two being tiled walls. In my case I now have sealant only between the cubicle and the tiles.
I should have thought you ought to have sealant between the top of the cubicle and the tiles.
Tips for keeping mould at bay are to leave the shower door open allowing all the steam to escape and helping the water to evaporate. You could also try drying the areas that are prone to mould after every shower - I am not able to do that but I do leave the door open and don't shut the bathroom door either.
Good luck!
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