Leaking wet room - Tile Advice

[Rich]

To be honest I think the water has prob done a horrible amount of damage to the substrate. Cutting out the grout and replacing it with a silicone joint (it would be worth getting a tiler to do this) will make that joint water proof but you said that there is holes in the grout further up. Even if you have somebody in to cut out and replace all the grout, the substrat will still be ruined. As gooner has said, the entire area should have been tanked. It seems that the installation wasnt done properly from start to finish.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Thanks again, I will take your advice, GirlRacerRed has already given me a link to somebody nearby on this forum.

Will, please don't be put off by Macten's profile picture... he needed a holiday by that point :lol:

 

[Will]

I dont doubt that it wasnt done properly given the plonker who did it ran the ensuite waste into a soakaway rather than the mains, I have spent two weekends relaying new drains to clear that one up already! I hate to think what he did in the ensuite shower cubicle as well in terms of waterproofing the walls. Do you think this is a job for a plumber/tiler?

 

[Will]

Haha no I wasnt put off in the slightest

 

[Rich]

Id get the recommended tiler in to have a look and if he says you need a plumber than take it from there. Some tilers do all the work others will not. The problem with going straight to a plumber is that they will almost always say that they will do the work themselves and very few of them know the details like the silicone joints in the corners.

 

[macten]

Just been to look at this hoping remedial work would sort it but unfortunately requires ripping out and re-doing properly.

From what I can see looking up from the garage is a sheet of ditra laid on the floorboards (no sign of it being stuck down with spf) then 12mm thick MDF on top of that - all this on a floating floor.
Can put my hand up and feel the backs of the brown skirting tiles that are dot and dabbed at the very tops where the PB ends, below that there is nothing.
Other areas of the bathroom have tiles holding on with grout.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

:yikes::yikes::yikes:

get some photographs nick

 

[White Room]

:yikes::yikes::yikes:

 

[Rich]

Oh dear.
Good man for going to have a look and thanks for letting us know

 

[DHTiling]

WOW!.. sounds a right mess..

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Another one,:yikes::yikes::yikes:

 

[mikethetile]

another home owner suffering from the actions of an idiot:yikes:

 

[macten]

Here's the shower waste through what looks and feels like MDF :

Here you can see Ditra onto floorboards, the MDF is then on top of this:

Where walls meet floor:

 

[faithhealer]

not a chance of that ever working was there. lost count of the number of houses now that have a shower they don't use because it leaks!

 

[jay]

O M G how do they sleep at night that room was doomed the minute they started thanks for the update Macten:mad2: