alchent
Jun 4, 2008, 04:57 PM
I noticed that a small amount of water had leaked from the fiberglass shower pan in the 2nd floor bath to the 1st floor ceiling. The location of the leak seems directly from the drainage area. The shower installation is about 10 year old. It has steam feature but is not used often.
I have a few questions which needs help:
1) How can I test the lead to see if the leak if from the rubber gasket that seals the plastic drain body of Oatey’s “No-Calk Shower Base Drain” to the 2” drain pipe; or leak between the drain body (drain lip) and shower pan base?
2) If the leak is from the rubber gasket, what kind of tool I need to use to take out the gasket? I can unskew the caulking nut that tights up the rubber gasket, but don’t know how to take out gasket to replace it.
3) If the leak is from drain lip, how can I tight it up without opening up my ceiling? Can I use silicon jel to caulk the drain lip from top? What type of selicon shoud I use and what is the life of this type of caulking we can roughly expected?
I have a few questions which needs help:
1) How can I test the lead to see if the leak if from the rubber gasket that seals the plastic drain body of Oatey’s “No-Calk Shower Base Drain” to the 2” drain pipe; or leak between the drain body (drain lip) and shower pan base?
2) If the leak is from the rubber gasket, what kind of tool I need to use to take out the gasket? I can unskew the caulking nut that tights up the rubber gasket, but don’t know how to take out gasket to replace it.
3) If the leak is from drain lip, how can I tight it up without opening up my ceiling? Can I use silicon jel to caulk the drain lip from top? What type of selicon shoud I use and what is the life of this type of caulking we can roughly expected?