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Silicone bathtub question

  • 22-09-2020 12:17pm
    #1
    thepogues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭


    Any advice appreciated. Photo is from where the bath edge meets the wall. (similar set up in the shower tray also) Does the sandy colored part need silicone or just the part in contact with the tiles? Thanks!


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  • #2
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    The part with the tiles . And you could put a small bit on the sandy part but the angle of fall should really move water away.

    Remember tape gives you a cleaner finish. Remove it before fully cured for clean lines.


  • #3
    thepogues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭thepogues


    listermint wrote: »
    The part with the tiles . And you could put a small bit on the sandy part but the angle of fall should really move water away.

    Remember tape gives you a cleaner finish. Remove it before fully cured for clean lines.

    Ok thanks, any particular tape? (and any particular silicone?)


  • #4
    MAJJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,679 ✭✭✭MAJJ


    thepogues wrote: »
    Ok thanks, any particular tape? (and any particular silicone?)

    Also, wetting your finger in washing up liquid allows you to smooth off and correct the finish very easily, with little experience I could get clean lines and recover from mistakes from use of the silicone. Especially if you stop, strat or have excess or gaps.


  • #5
    Phil.x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    thepogues wrote: »
    Any advice appreciated. Photo is from where the bath edge meets the wall. (similar set up in the shower tray also) Does the sandy colored part need silicone or just the part in contact with the tiles? Thanks!

    Those things are a nightmare, always leak.


  • #6
    thepogues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭thepogues


    Phil.x wrote: »
    Those things are a nightmare, always leak.

    Better to put silicone on both sides so?


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  • #7
    Phil.x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    thepogues wrote: »
    Better to put silicone on both sides so?

    Before the tiles went on, a bead of silicone should be ran between bath and wall, then that plastic strip fixed to the wall and then tiled over leaving what you have in the photo. So if installed correctly it shouldn't leak, but they are an old way of sealing baths and showers and are nowadays seen as rubbish.

    For a quick fix if its leaking, silicone or tec7 where it meets the tiles and get a paint scraper or similar and lift it up and run some tec7 under it as it will probably be wet and silicone won't stick but tec7 will.


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