Water Damaged Shower Repairs
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 ...