Damp plaster in bathroom

[Fekin]

Been to price up a job tonight, and along the bath theres 4 10x10 tiles that have fallen off months ago and water from the shower has worked it's way through from the bathroom wall to the next room.

So basically, it's soaked along these 4 tiles length, and most probably a good bit around the surrounding tiles too.

Whats best to do with this ? , tell them to have no showers until the walls dried, might take a long time with the cold, and it's a cold house, and I think everyone always has a shower, and hardly uses the actual bath.

Is there anything that can be done other than waiting weeks for the wall to dry, or would cement based adhesives be ok, or what ?

Any help\advise most welcome

[Dave]

Sorry Adam mate..I'm afraid it has to dry out if it has soaked in that deep..then you need to check the condition of the substrate and if appropriate remove any damaged areas and replace...sometimes the water ingression will deteriorate the background.......good luck mate....

[Fekin]

So you wouldn't consider removing the damp area of plaster and building it back up level to the wall ?

Pitty really, would be a full bathroom job if I got it, and knowing some out there would happily tile onto it... not sure what the end result would be like mind

I was wondering if once removed damp area back to the brick work, then sealing with some kind of tanking liquid would stop the damp from coming back on it's self, then building the wall back up level would work ?

[Dave]

But if the brickwork is wet too then i think it needs to dry...even if you remove the damp parts and re-do, it will still need to dry and this will take longer because the brickwork is wet as well...you could remove the damp sections of plaster this will allow the bricks to dry, either with a dehumidifier or blow heater ( air type )..then once dry .. then dry line the room....hope this helps mate...

[penno]

I would tell them it needs to dry out mate, if it takes over a week then it takes over a week. Wouldn't remove the damp areas myself.
Sounds stupid but is there a way to cover over the damp area with a black bag or something so they can still shower whilst it dries out?

Would also give them a little speech along the lines of "you could probably get another tiler in who would happily tile over the damp area but i am really not willing to do it because after a few months you will be back to square one."

Will no doubt get the job if you give them some good advice

[brian c]

good advice dh and penno,just need to let it dry out Adam,maybe put a portable heater in the room to speed this up.

[Caledonian Tiling]

Hi Brian,

As Dave mentioned could you not remove the damaged plaster area
and dry line with say 9mm plasterboard to bring out to level of existing tiles..?

This way you could get tiling a lot sooner.. just a thought...

Ian.

[brian c]

you could do that Ian yeah.

[Fekin]

They were covering it with a bin liner or something, but gave up with the looks of it.

Might tell'em to get the hair dryer on it, lol

[Fred]

Just finished a similar job today but in a shower unit. The client was an inpatient man and could not get through his head it takes time for things to dry out!

[brian c]

Customers like that are a right pain in the nether regionand probably wanting the job done for next to nothing.

[Fred]

You got it brian. It was a pathetic shower tiles in the first place. The house is 7 tears old, and the builders put a coloured tile border followed by a white double bumped tile border, which they drilled trough to put the shower pipes through, but it was split and all sorts going on!! My plumber replaced the pipes by 10 inches higher and I reborded the area. Tiling for £150.00p , plumbers pay to follow. And what a pain finding the double bumpy white border.