Bath Screen Hinge Leaking

[Andrew May]

Have just fitted a Bath Screen of the type with a fixed glass panel and a hinged screen. The hinges are top and bottom with a seal running the height of hinged section.

The hinges are essentiall cups fitted to the top and bottom of the fixed section into witch a matching piece with a spigot on the hinged section fits.

A PDF of the only instructions that came with it is here:

problem is that whilst everything else is sealed water from the shower can get into the hinge around the cup and out the other side. This is not just a dribble but a veritable spray if the shower is in the right direction.

My gut feeling is that there should be some form of seal in the hinge, perhaps an O ring of sorts although there is no evidence of a groove for this.

Does anyone have any experience of this type of screen. Do they work and if so what stop the water getting through?

Andrew

[Mathew Newton]

The hinge does have seal (item 10 in your fitting instructions) however it may well be that water that hits this and runs is free to run out of the bottom. To remedy, it might be worth considering sealing the base on the outside as per step 8 of the instructions from this similarly-designed screen from Coram:

recently fitted one of these without the fixed panel portion, and sealed it as advised without any problems)

Mathew

[Andrew May]

> (I recently fitted one of these without the fixed panel portion, and

Useful instructions. Thanks. Much better than mine. The seal along the spline (item 10 that you point out) is fine. The problem is the hinge at the bottom (item 13). There is no seal between that and the turning joint. Water from the shower can enter that and re-emerge on the wrong side. That is where and O ring might be useful although there is no croove to accommoadate one.

Andrew