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Leaky shower help
I believe our Master BR shower pan is leaking at a corner. It started after the guy redid the floor from tile to concrete and pebbles, he might have pinched or cracked the membrane... First there was water just outside the shower corber against the adjacent wall. I patched this the best I could and it stopped, I thought I won for a while until my contractor could recover from his double knee replacement. Nope, just found out the hardwood floor in the master bedroom immediately behind that wall is looking water damaged now, so the water probably still leaks but under the wall now.
Clearly we need to stop using that shower and hope the wood recovers (otherwise I have spare slats). It's the lowest level on the house and concrete under so probably not catastriphic rot yet. Using the kid's BR showers at dawn is not cool, and my guy is still recovering, and other contractors are busy rebuilding entire homes due to fires and other calamities...
Any tips on how to survive in the meantime, 2 months tops ?
I was hypothesizing installing a new shower liner (anything waterproof really) over the floor of mine and tape it to the sides of the shower walls say a foot up. Make a hole by the drain and somehow ensure that hole only drains in the drain (not certain about that part, putty ?). Allowing us to use our shower (carefully, maybe with a yoga mat laid over the plastic) for a little bit without doing more damage...
Stupid ? Better idea ? Contractor shortage is no fun and I'm not sure I've got the skills here, esp to repair and not have to rebuild the entire shower as opposed to doing more damage.
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