Hi, Hoping someone can help me.

We just moved all of the furniture out of a room ready for new carpet tomorrow and found rotting carpet under a set of bookshelves in the store room.

The room backs on to the main shower and on inspection, I think there is sealant missing from the tiled area in the corner of the shower. I am assuming that this is where the water is leaking from.

The slab is wet in an arc 4 foot along the wall and about 3 feet at its greatest depth. The architraves are wet and mouldy. There is a concrete strip about 1 inch along the wall that seems to be separate from the main slab and that is crumbly and wet . I can gouge large pieces of it out with a screw driver.

I have a heater and a fan and an open window set up to try to dry the area.

What else can I do?

What sort of tradesman should I call or can I do something

Any help gratefully accepted

Jac

Yes, call and tell carpet people to wait, find out sourse of the leak, since it will just ruin the new if you don't find and stop the problem.

Good advice by Chuck.

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I think there is sealant missing from the tiled area in the corner of the shower. I am assuming that this is where the water is leaking from.

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This puts the fault squarely on the tile grout. Over the years tile gout can shrink or just crumble and a leak develops.

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What sort of tradesman should I call or can I do something

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When that happened in my shower some years back I went in with silicon caulk and sealed the corner. That was over 10 years ago and I haven't had a leak since. Or you could call in a tile man and regrout the tiles. Good luck, Tom