To start off, I have no plumbing knowledge so if any of this is irrelevant or I miss out anything important, sorry!
Shower was put in about 6-8 weeks ago. The room is a first floor extension so nothing in it before. It was a blank canvas which had been previously fully boarded floor and walls with waterproof marine ply. Guy who did it fully tiled floor including under the tray, and walls.
Round the edge of the tray he fitted some sort of flexible seal, which was shit and popped out every time I used it. Due to this I was v careful not to get much/ any water on the walls or near seal.
After a week or two, my bf took out the flexible seal and replaced it with silicone sealant. After that we used it a lot more (but still only 1-2 times a day on average).
2 weeks ago I noticed a patch on my living room ceiling, about 30cm square. There was also water dripping through the light in the adjacent utility room, and down the wall of that room.
We used the shower once, to see if it got worse. The dripping down the wall did - we've not used it since.
Contacted the guy who fitted it. He's now said (without looking at it, I asked him to come round, he hasn't) that the leak isn't a leaky pipe, as if it was it would have blown my ceiling, and is just the seal.
He suggests I reseal and it'll be fine. And the ceiling patch (now at least 3ft x 1.5ft) is just water that had already leaked coming through. And it'll take up to 3 months to dry out
Is this all bs? Or is he correct?
In either case, what do I do?
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leaking shower - help/ advice needed!
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VelvetSpoon · 03/12/2015 18:54
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