[damumma]

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

[Fr_Chuck]

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.

[speedball1]

Good advice by Chuck.

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.

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

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

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