A shower which does not leak!

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Hi everyone

Our shower has a shallow tray and is a nightmare for leaking, both from the water going down too slowly and overflowing, but also now from the spray somehow going straight through the silicone where the glass meets it (no matter how many times we redo it).

We need to take action before our floor rots away!

My partner thinks getting a deep tray shower would work. What do you think? I'm wary that it might still leak where the glass meets the tray. Do you think that a deep tray would be a good solution?

I have been reading about non silicone, fully sealed units. Does anyone have one of these? Any recommendations? I remember reading a post here a while back where someone had moved into a new house and the bathroom had a big and ugly moulded unit... which they grew to love due to it not leaking. Ugly is fine at this point!

But would we actually fit one through the bathroom door???

Really grateful for any suggestions or pointers, thanks.

Coram showers - not cheap, but when they say they're waterproof they mean it

Make sure the shower has a fast flow trap and goes into 2 inch waste

If you silicone with the correct flexible adhesive and follow the shower door manufacturers guidelines on where to silicon you should be fine

Use a tile backer board behind any tiles not plasterboard
Showers and wetrooms should be waterproof before any tiles go on

Thanks both :)

@Puzzledandpissedoff I have had a quick look at Coram and their pods certainly seem like they might do the job - thanks for the recommendation. I couldn't see any prices though on the brochure I found. I will look again later.

@billysboy I have googled and on a very superficial level it does look like we have a fast flow trap (although it is really not functioning this way). This was a helpful prompt though. Rather than going straight to getting a new shower, I will ask the plumber to have a quick look at the existing shower when he comes to do the boiler check in a few weeks, and then go from there.

I couldn't see any prices though on the brochure I found

It's a few years ago now, but I found the same and had to ring the company for this
Thing is, much of what they do is for the building trade and I'm not sure how much is retail these days, but unless it's changed they certainly do sell to the public if asked

Make sure the waste from the trap is 2 inch or 50mm in new money and has a good fall on it
Get the basics right the best shower cubicle in the world won’t work correctly if the trap is blocked or the waste isn’t big enough with enough fall
Should be 100 mm over 1 metre in length