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Shower Repair Blog

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  Is your shower leaking downstairs, causing damage to your main floor or basement? Discover the reasons why worn-out showers leak downstairs in this blog. You're not alone - water-damaged shower repairs constitute a billion-dollar industry.  Modern era waterproofing technology has revolutionized water damaged shower repair jobs, especially with the advent of 100% waterproof wet rooms. In the past, showers often suffered from a multitude of issues, including water leakage, persistent black mold, musty odors, cracks in grout joints, missing grout, loose tiles, and even insect infestations. These problems were largely attributed to the absence of adequate waterproofing in older shower designs. Traditional showers, despite being the top sellers in North America, were lacking the advanced waterproofing features that are now found in contemporary options like Schluter wet rooms. The prevalence and popularity of these outdated showers can be attributed to their affordability and widespre

Granite countertop job

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Water Damaged Shower Repairs

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The water will penetrate the pan through grout and there is a lot of condensation underneath the tile for as long as the shower is in use. It will dry in 3 months' time if you do not use it. The dry pack mud is always wet trapping in the water. That moisture has nowhere to go, and it starts migrating usually behind the walls causing nothing but trouble on the way out, they all have black mold which grows from inside out. My opinion, the Oatey shower issue is, the shower pan liner attaches to the drain via 4 bolts that later will rust, that rust in conjunction with water/moisture will in some way contaminate the pan liner. Over time the liner gets brittle and fails in one way or another. When you remove the liner, it cannot take a fold, that’s how bad it is. Since we are dealing with suspended floors (which no one talks about like we live in a perfect world) there is always a bouncing on the joist, it all depends on who is using the shower 100lbs vs 350lbs. That amounts to the

Water Damaged Old School Shower Repair

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 Water Damaged Old School Shower Repair (most recent wet room conversion 100% waterproofed) This shower was leaking down to the basement to the point where the customer had to put a bucket underneath the drain to collect the water.