Shower cubicle is leaking slightly - how to fix?

[Suddengeekgirl]

Our shower cubicle has questionable silicone sealant in places inside the enclosure (and some places on the outside where I assume presides leaks were spotted and sealed.)

The leak is on the outside and is at most a few drops each day at the moment.

Do I remove all sealant and start again?
(Shower is 10+ years old so silicone is possibly similar age)

Just remove near the leak and hope I find the 'inside the cubicle' source of the leak. (I know where the water comes out but not where it starts leaking through iyswim)

I'm quite handy with a filler gun thingy so reckon I could do the silicone neatly - if I knew how to remove the old stuff and any tricks for putting new one down.

Yes, remove and reseal. This normally needs redoing every couple of years anyway.

We got a strip to reseal ours - it was much easier than the silicone stuff and looks quite neat - just need to remove the old stuff first.

Follow up question time then...

There's silicone sealant on the outside of the shower - presumably from trying to seal previous leaks. Should I remove that and replace it too?

Also what's the best way to remove the sealant? :)

shoewhore - what was the strip?

You can buy sealant remover, messy to use, but much easier than digging it all out.

the seal or strip is supposed to be on the inside of the shower, to stop water getting into the gap.

Sealing the outside just stops the trapped water from getting out of the gap, so it might be soaking into the wall or floor. Personally I prefer the plastic strips, but opinions differ.

search for "bath seal strip" and remember that you will need corner pieces.

I need more advice!

I took out the old sealant, replaced it, left it to dry for 48h+ and tested. I thought it was all sorted.

Then I spotted that it was leaking again in the same area. :(

What now?

I'm not very good at sealing shower cubes.

It might be running down a vertical part of the frame (usually made of hollow aluminium extrusions) so the leak might not be where you can see it.

Have a look here, or add your q.

Oh bollocks! Hadn't even thought that the leak could be from somewhere there wasn't dodgy/ replacement sealant!
:(

Any ideas how to identify the leak point?