Smelly water coming out from where the wall meets the floor in the shower
Hello, I removed caulking from shower floor because it was getting moldy but water started coming from where I removed caulking and some of it has a bad odor, I have waited like 2 days but those areas where the wall meets the floor are still humid and some water (not a lot) keeps coming to shower where wall meets floor, what can be the problem? Where would that water be coming from? Should I just re-caulk?
You need to investigate further and determine how the water is getting into the wall. Ignore it (or caulk again) and you may be dealing with this soon if not already:
Behind a tiled wall on green board opposite the shower head. Discovered during renovation. No leaks ever appeared in 25 years but the studs were completely rotted.
Tile & grout is NOT waterproof. The water could be seeping through the grout joints. More likely though is a leaking pipe. But, you MUST find the source of the leak before the repair gets really expensive.
Sorry you're having trouble... but I'm not sure how anyone could answer based on the info you provided. We assume it's a tile wall... or is it some sort of glass board, frp, or a fiberglass surround (you never said) and we don't know much about how any of it was constructed. A tile job on top of a bad substrate (like on drywall) would cause the problems you describe. But yeah, like Pilot Dane said for all we know it could be something like a pinhole in a copper pipe. At this point it is guesswork.
I'm in the process of re-tiling my master bathroom. I will do the same with the guest bathroom but I'm thinking of using that vinyl plank or floating tile that you can just snap together over plywood subflooring as it seems like an easier and cleaner job than re-tiling with grout, ditra, etc. Can I use this for bathroom flooring, as I thought you could as I see it advertised on the hardware store sites as waterproof and does show up as an option for bathroom flooring when I do a search on their site. Thanks.
I'm not usually at a loss when remedying a problem. I came across this last night at my sisters condo. She has vinyl plank flooring. Don't know the brand name. Looks like the snap together type.
She had a rubber backed welcome mat that became bonded to the vinyl flooring.
Most of the rubber backing has turned into a hard substance that cannot easily be scraped off the flooring. I'm guessing some kind of chemical reaction. She tried soaking with GooGone and didn't even touch it.
I'm going to have to go back with the usual arsenal of xxx products.
Any one come across this before ?
03-14-23, 08:37 AM
