silicon around bath

[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