silicon around bath

[marsaday]

I have built a bath frame around my bath and it is all tiled and grouted. Do i need to add a silicon bead around the bath where it meets the tile. The cuts all look good so i was thinking i just dont need any silicon here. Also not much water is going to try and penetrate this join.

What do you think.

 

[Megaflo-Experts]

Yes would be best to put silicone; it's will get splashed, especially if there are kids!
Also, there will be movement between the bath and tiles and the grout will crack.

 

[secret squirrel]

Always silicone, use a good quality one.

Any slight movement you'll get a bit of water, my girlfriend wallows in the bath like a big fat hippo so I use silicone everywhere.............

 

[Timbob]

Defo silicone it aswell as grout mate, it WILL get wet and the grout WILL crack due to movement.

 

[Destroyer2813]

, my girlfriend wallows in the bath like a big fat hippo so I use silicone everywhere.............[/QUOTE]


Take it she dont read your posts

 

[secret squirrel]

, my girlfriend wallows in the bath like a big fat hippo so I use silicone everywhere.............

Take it she dont read your posts [/QUOTE]

Only over my shoulder, so I need to be careful, I think she's stuck in the bath. To watch her get out is like an episode of survival, the one with the crocodile attacking the wilderbeast.........

Oops.....

 

[Destroyer2813]

Think you best log out as soon as she gets out otherwise she may eat ya

 

[dontknowitall]

Those last few posts have got me in stitches!!!

 

[marsaday]

will do ta.

i have the mapei grout coloured silicon to match my grout - limestone. they gave me it today at al murad when i bought a few more tiles to finish off the shower tiling.

 

[LegionellaSlave]

You can get silicone with built in 'microban' to prevent it going black.

 

[WHPES]

Make sure you've got a couple of mm between the tiles and the bath so you can squeeze silicone into the gap. No use whatsoever in filling the gap with grount and silicone on top.

 

[Phil]

Do you know WHPES I was about to say the exact same thing.

You must have at least a 2mm gap, if the tiles but up to the bath this is wrong.

 

[Pipes Plumbing]

And fill the bath before siliconing the join, let it go off before letting the water out.
This way the silicone is usually under compression rather than being stretched, it's less likely to give way under movement and leak.

 

[bob the plumber]

yeah needs a seal deffo, 2 seals if you have or are to do it properly. bath should have been put in, and prior to tiling onto siliconed along the edge to all walls it was butted to. tile down onto bath surface leaving a 1-2mm gap grouted and then sealed again. well that my way

 

[TheToiletDoctor]

There is a great product called 'Classic Seal' that forms a permanent seal and upstand that goes behind tiles. Whenever I fit a new bath I use it as I do not need to cut bath into wall - taps can become too close to wall.

It is worth the £40.

Craig Electricians in Brighton and Hove - On Time Electrician