Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Oct 28, 2015 8:36 am Hello, I have an existing shower with two tiled walls and other two sides the shower frame/glass/door. I’ve sketched a bird’s eye view below. I have removed the old silicone caulk (many hours of effort and lots of chemicals later) and am wanting to know the normal practise of where to caulk – am not convinced the original job was entirely correct. The bits I do know, is the verticals (frame meeting tiled wall, corner where tiled walls meet) and the horizontals where the tiled walls meet the shower pan. But is it normal to also caulk the horizontal where the frame and shower pan meet? The previous caulking did this to just the door side, and not the other frame side (on the diagram, the right / east side was caulked but the bottom / south was not). Also that bottom / south side of the shower pan has a raised lip / channel running along, and a small channel / inlet into the shower pan. So it wasn’t caulked anywhere along that horizontal. The right / east side also has a lip but is lower. It was caulked horizontally on both the inside of the frame and the outside too. This is the side with the door. If my description or diagram are confusing, am happy to take photos or explain further. Thank you all in advance, I very much appreciate the time people take to provide feedback. Apologies if the terminology is not correct. Matt. Diagram (click for full size view): Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Shower pan (wall and frame) caulking 2Nov 04, 2015 2:00 pm We see this all the time. We just use a clear silicon on frames better then nothing as all the hair etc gets trapped under the frame itself. I have never understood why they only silicon the external frame. Re: Shower pan (wall and frame) caulking 3Nov 04, 2015 7:50 pm Hi matt Mate the only places where really need to silicon on a shower base like you have if been installed correct is the vertical corner and where the glass frame meets the wall on both sides. The lips on the bottom of shower base is the water trapment.the tiles should be sitting on the inside of that lip so when water runs down wall an into the base This is 100% true. You can not hang anything on steel frames. very frustrating 8 7990 I need to replace some lengths of aluminum shower frame but I can't seem to find any suppliers of this stuff. Neither the blue or orange home centers carry these things.… 0 5398 This certainly doesn't look good. I would be engaging with an independent inspector to have a look at this. As for the unscheduled site visits, most builders are quite… 1 28312 |