Seals around the baths

[Kelly]

Hi - I'm a novice tiler and have been reading the debate. Just putting in a shower and not a straight line anywere. Got a massive gap about 2-3 cms between shower tray and wall. Dad told me to bridge gap with grout and then use tile quadrants (plastic seams to be trap for all type of nasties) and a silicon sealant. Where do you get tile quadrants from? Normal DIY shops and Top Tile doesn't do them. Cant find them on internet - links only to forum sites like these. Please help. thanks

 

[White Room]

A good tile shop should be able to get you some in

 

[whiskeydram]

Silicon and fugi every time

 

[Mark B]

Peg your tiles up with Rubi wedges, about 2mm, Silicon likes to have a gap to go into, not just a 90 degree angle, thats the problem with Silicon, if you know how it likes to be used, you'll never have problems. Also, if it is a acrylic bath, fill it up with water before siliconing, that way it will move with the eventual weight of water and human.

This is the same way I do it. It gives the Silicon a chance to bed into the gap to create a far better seal.

Having watched the installation videos on the Teleseal website you still need to seal it to the tiles anyway :lol:

Mark

 

[andy-p]

Silicon every time !! you can cut it out and replace when necessary, seals are in for good , kick the bottom row of tiles out , can leak , go scummy looking etc etc...