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Darren Beck.
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Is there any way to replace or repair my leaking shower with a lead pan without distroying my beautiful 1920s tiles that I can not find replacements for? I do have access to the bottom of the shower, but my plumber says its not possible.
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Believe your plumber. The pan has to go under the floor tile and up the walls to a point higher than the door sill. Obviously, that cannot be done without removing the tile.: Is there any way to replace or repair my leaking shower with a lead pan without distroying my beautiful 1920s tiles that I can not find replacements for? I do have access to the bottom of the shower, but my plumber says its not possible.
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: Re: msg posted by Darren Beck 10/11/99 12:28:49 I had a shower in a 1928 home that leaked & repaired it. I broke out the tile and the concrete beneath it & discovered that the installer had poured the floor and must have used a chisel or a screw driver at the edge of the concrete to push down the lead tray and punched 4 or five holes in the tray on one side. I scraped off the oxide and with an electric sodering iron 50/50 soder, acid and flux was able to apply soder to seal the holes & then poured a new floor & applied new tiles with a tile paste adhesive & solved the problem. You could probably fix it without removing the tiles if you scraped out the grout, where cracked, regrouted and then put a bead of silicon calking around the sides. If you can see the leaking spot from below there is a calking available similar to rope calking that never gets hard. Just press it into the holes from below while the lead tray is dry. This could last for years. I obtained the calking from a Rec. Vehicle dealer. They use it to seal the roof vents on RVs when they replace them.: : Is there any way to replace or repair my leaking shower with a lead pan without distroying my beautiful 1920s tiles that I can not find replacements for? I do have access to the bottom of the shower, but my plumber says its not possible.
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