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Shower leaking into wall?

Thanks. I copied the link that TinyPic said was for forums. Didn't think email would work. Will use your suggestion next time. 'Preciate it.

HB

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Higgs Boson
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A decent picture showing the tub and the shower so we can undestand the situation would be very helpful!!

Reply to
hrhofmann

Much better Now if the shower foor did not latch properly, the water would run straight down, not go behind the tiles. So you must open the wall between the tub and shower to see what is going on. Have you tried just using the tub./ shower for a couple of weeks to see if the wall dries up. IF it does, then the separate shower is at fault. OR, just use the shower and not the tub/shower as\nd see what happens. IT will take a couple of weeks to show up as the wall looks so very damp that it will take a while to dry out. You could also put a fan blowing at the opened wall to speed up the process.

Reply to
hrhofmann

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You haven't said how many people are in the household and who uses what???

Reply to
hrhofmann

This time don't use greenboard either. Use cement board.

Reply to
dadiOH

*MUCH* better.

I don't think that would be caused by water from around the door. I'm guessing the shower head is on the opposite side of the wall from the tub spout, yes? BTW, there is what appears to be rust under the tub spout too.

It is really impossible to tell where the water is coming from but a likely spot is the inside corner of the tub spout/shower wall and the shower door wall. Most all corners like that will have cracked grout because of the movement of the wall studs at the corner. IF that is the case and you have to open up the wall, use caulk in that corner (all areas where two walls meet, actually) rather than grout.

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dadiOH

This is much better.

Reply to
mm

No. Anyone can open it. Closing it is another story.

Watch it.

Gravity.

Doesn't get wet?

It will get worse.

As to possible mold, even if you get it, only sometimes is it as bad as the horror stories make out. I had mold and when the basement wall dried out, the mold stopped growing. (the black stuff stopped spreading) Then I painted it white again, and that was the end of it. If not that, there's bleach to kill it. (On my outside fence, natural wood, for a part that gets little sunlight, I used 100% bleach to kill whatever was growning there, not just the mixture recommended on the bottle, which wasn't enough.

As to floor damage, I had a leak 28 years ago when I used the bathtub. It would drip out of the dining room ceiling below, run down the chain and fill the globe around the ceiling chandlier bulb. Got 3 deep on more than one occasion. (Who looks up there? So it had been leaking for a few weeks before I noticed it.) There may have been some damage, but nothing I can see 28 years later.

OT Eventually it got to where it only leaked when someone used the shower in the bath. I think bath crud, mostly my old skin and soap, filled the hole where it was leaking. Several of my 100 neihbors in identical townhouses also had a leak in the same place, and eacy had someone open the ceiling and fix it. I'm glad I waited.

Just stop using the bad half? Until I was 10 and we moved, I wasn't allowed to take showers because, in a house we owned, the linoleum seam around the tub was open for 3 inches right above the tub, and plaster fell out when it got wet. One doesn't have to have everything working all the time, just because the tv commercials make it look like it should.

And stop being scared to death. It's no big deal to be without a second shower. How often are they both used at the same time anyhow?

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mm

I woudlnt' do it. What if you find that it's wet? How will that tell you what it will be like when it dries?

Send a child. They love that stuff. Send him with a camera.

Or, how high is it? I wouldnt' do it either 3 feet or less**, but put down folded cardboard boxes on the dirt, wear old clothes, use a broom to sweep away the cobwebs before you get to them, and play the radio and maybe have extra lights to lessen the claustrophobia. (I have some of that too. maybe you have more.)

What would be really cool is a remote controlled car with a wireless video camera on it, pointed up. Tie a strong string to the car so you can get it back if it gets stuck.

Or just don't worry about it. IF it gets bad, you can worry then. Seriously.

** Eleveators are okay, but I did go caving one time, even knowing my problem. At one point we had to craw 10 or 15 feet with the rock just an inch or two above my back and my butt. When I moved my legs I would often press up against the "roof". Just thinking about that now upsets me, but at the time I tried hard to not think about it, to control myself. I"m glad I did it, but I'll never do it again.
Reply to
mm

Do you put the curtain outside or inside the tub?

Reply to
mm

If they are bungalows. There is more to that than just one-story.

I saw recently that their sting is really not fatal. So don't worry.

Reply to
mm

They must mean html forums. Not good ones.

Reply to
mm

you won't like mri's then.

Reply to
chaniarts

Correct. That is what's there now. My mistake originally saying lathe & plaster. That was before remodel w/greenboard.

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Since it is now greenboard, it is easy to just open the wall up and see what is going on. You'll be able to see if any of the plumbing is leaking, or if the grout is leaking, or if water is coming through either of the two walls (the stall shower or the tub/shower) where the fixtures come through the wall. In my home, I once had to caulk with 100% silicone caulk around where the shower faucets went through the wall to stop water from running down the shower wall and going through the wall at that point. And, with the wall open, you won't need to go into the crawl space and bother the black widow spiders.

Maybe you can open the wall up and see if you can get any good pictures of where it is wet inside of that wall.

Reply to
RogerT

So I hear. I've resolved not to get sick until they improve them.

And they clang, too, I hear. Not like the gentle radio soudns I wanted the OP to use.

Maybe people like me could get a vri instead. Violin resonance imaging.

Reply to
mm

Thanks. Others have made your good suggestion about isolating the shower for a few weeks, so I've arranged with OP to use my shower. Also good thought about fan on opened wall.

Stay tuned!

HB

Reply to
Higgs Boson

Dunno if my reply went through. Thanked you for suggestion of isolating shower for a few weeks and for fan idea.

HB

Reply to
Higgs Boson

Yes, m'lord. In future yr. humble obt. servt. will say The Other Person or some other non-confusing identifier.

HB

Reply to
Higgs Boson

Liner inside, curtain outside.

HB

Reply to
Higgs Boson

GOOD IDEA!

wear old clothes, use a

Mine is relatively mild. But when I was working at [studio] they wanted to put me in a windowless office, with dust and cobwebs, so I quit. Wouldn't have killed me to work there, but I felt under- appreciated. **** them.

Re: crawl space, couple of years ago when I was stringing the wire from hifi to speakers, I went under the house with a too-dim flashlight. To make it worse, I got slightly jammed between dirt floor and lumber above (and I am not a large person). For a moment, there, I almost panicked, then I told myself "***hole, get out and get a brighter light". So I did, and finished the job, but this is not my favorite memory.

YOU. COULD. NOT. GET. ME. INTO. A . REAL. CAVE. FOR. ANY. MONEY!!!

I did go touring in some huge cave in Kentucky? umpty years ago, but it was all lit up like a Christmas tree, and people all around. I've seen TV shows about spelunkers diving in water-filled "blue holes" somewhere in Central America? somewhere?. They go under in scuba gear and wind (wend?) their way down into the depths and around the corners...un-efffing-believable

HB

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Higgs Boson

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