Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry Re: Advice re: leaking showers please 2Jun 10, 2013 6:27 pm Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Advice re: leaking showers please 5Jun 26, 2013 9:41 pm Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Advice re: leaking showers please 6Jul 27, 2013 7:22 pm orbitor it is the builder's responsibility to address this. Don't accept any makeshift fix. If the waterproofing is faulty, pretty much the whole bathroom needs to be pulled up and redone. Agree. They use cheap waterproofing or it was friday when they put it and couldn't wait to get to the pub and didn't apply it properly. Tell them you want both bathrooms re done. Leaking showers cant be fixed with a bandaid. Sent from iPhone using Tapatalk Re: Advice re: leaking showers please 8Jun 08, 2014 9:37 am sal032 Hi, What was the outcome? We are having the exact same issue and getting the same story from our builder! Kind Regards Sallie Yes. What happened. Re: Advice re: leaking showers please 9Dec 20, 2014 2:32 pm Sorry, it's been a long time since I've been on here. The outcome was that he fixed it. He stuck to his original story, but he did come and fix it. No leaks since ** touch wood ** Fair trading were great though. They offered to come out and inspect it with him if I had any trouble getting him to do the work. I didn't need to though. Re: Advice re: leaking showers please 10Dec 21, 2014 3:28 pm do you know what type of membrane it was? Fibreglass, polyurethane etc Chances are it was an incorrectly installed bond breaker. I've seen plenty of new houses where this isn't done properly Re: Advice re: leaking showers please 12Feb 24, 2015 4:27 pm Too many waterproofing jobs getting done these days without any reinforcing matt in the corners and coated to thinly with only a single coat , these jobs are all destined to fail with even minor structural movement . If the job is done properly it should take extreme structural movement to cause it to fail . This is the current bathroom with a european laundry. Overall internal dimensions are 3.69 wide and 3.65m deep, including the footprint of the laundry. There is a toilet… 0 11521 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair Hi, I've got a brand new (2nd hand) Bosch Hydropower 16H tankless hot water heater. Since it was installed I have noticed it leaks a lot. I took the cover off and it looks… 0 25071 My first suspect area is at the bottom of the harvested downpipe furthest from the tank. PVC downpipes expand and contract with heat and cold, putting pressure on the… 3 2432 |