Leaking Shower Repairs Canterbury-Bankstown

This is the big one out here, because so many of these bathrooms never had a membrane to begin with. We strip the base, correct the fall to the waste, seal the flange and every wall junction, then lay a new membrane and let it cure properly before a tile goes near it. Done once, it outlasts the rest of the bathroom.

Old silicone gets cut out entirely, not covered over. We clean the joint back to the tile edge, check that the bed behind it is dry, and only then run the new bead. If the bed is wet we say so and stop, because sealing water in is how a job comes back three months later.

Half the calls we take here turn out to be two problems tangled together, a tired shower and an old galvanised pipe run. We separate them before anyone starts cutting. Flood testing for the wet area, moisture mapping through the adjoining rooms, thermal where the water is under a slab.

Fifty year old cement grout goes chalky and simply falls out of the floor joints. We rake the lines out to depth and refill with a flexible grout that can handle the small movements an older house makes. On a bathroom that has been looked after, this alone often stops the water.

Original tiles from the sixties and seventies rarely survive removal, so we hold aside whatever does and show you the nearest current match for the rest before ordering anything. Set out so the cut tiles land in the corner behind the screen where nobody is looking at them.

When the shower needs a membrane, the vanity is swollen and the tiles are coming off the wall anyway, a repair is not the cheaper option, it is just the smaller invoice. We will tell you where that line sits and take the room from strip out to finished if you want it done properly.

Less common here than on the coast, but every unit block along the Canterbury Road corridor has them, and the rear additions on older homes often carry a tiled deck over a garage. Blocked outlets and cracked junctions, same as a shower, larger area, worse weather.