As I was walking downstairs I noticed some bubbling paint on the wall. I've had issues with the shower letting water in before but it has been fine for a couple years now. I'm just wondering if someone can let me know from these pictures if it looks like the grout has failed and this looks like a point of ingress, and also the best way to repair this if so.
Water leak, suspect grouting failed
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Hard to tell exactly, looks suspicious. If you're able to remove the bath panel have a look if it's appears in similar location. Then confirm by running the shower onto the grout and see if any drips occur underneath
I think it's a shower cubicle, unless the tiles are on their 5th overlay and they're right to out to the edge of the lip
@Tmdh89 - it looks like the grout may have cracked, if it has then only way to fix that is to raggle out the old grout and re-do with water proof grout. I always get suspicious of tiles and grout that cracks, the usual cause for that is movement, and that's the last thing a shower tray and cubicle install needs as 9 times out of 10 it'll re-occur.
Stuckinarut is right, it's a shower over a bath, the bath panel area was actually plasterboarded and tiled over, so in the past in order to fit new taps and waste I had to smash tiles and cut plasterboard out for access.
With my untrained eye the whole bathroom was done on a budget, I feel like the grout looks the way it does is because the plasterboard sucked the moisture out of the grout.
I think you've confirmed what I felt I needed to do, rake out the grout and replace.
With my untrained eye the whole bathroom was done on a budget, I feel like the grout looks the way it does is because the plasterboard sucked the moisture out of the grout.
I think you've confirmed what I felt I needed to do, rake out the grout and replace.
Cant argue with that
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