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Why is water coming out of the grout on the side of our Shower?
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Due to recent rain in Singapore, I have encountered that water seeps out from the grout line at the Basement Lobby from of the marble slab. I also noted the the installer are using chemical adhesive to bind the marble slabs.
The other reason I could reason it is that the water table is too high causing saturated water coming out from the grout line.
May i source any solution to it.
Thank you.
I’m not sure what you mean by the installers used a chemical adhesive to bind the marble slabs. Perhaps they are using an epoxy to adhere them to the substrate or they are using it to adhere adjacent slabs to each other?
That should not have anything to do with the water seeping out from the grout joints.
Apparently the water seeps from the grout joints only when it rains. So that either means the water table rises or that water is traveling from a high area down towards the building where the travels under the building and then maybe through hydrostatic pressure the water is forced up through the grout joints.
If it is the water table that is an expensive process to remediate. You would have to build some sort of underground cistern and then pump the water out to keep it from the floor.
If the water is coming from draining down to the building from a higher level then you can dig trenches around the perimeter of the building and put a perforated pipe in with a sock over it covered with gravel and then have the water drain away to a storm drain.
Apparently the shower is leaking through the tiles and dripping out of the ceiling in the basement – it is not coming from the pipes. I noticed some of the caulking is missing so there is a space there. Can you just recaulk the tiles? My friend suggested possible a shower insert. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
If the shower is leaking to the extent that it is dripping out of the ceiling of the basement the problem is that either the shower pan was installed wrong or the waterproofing has failed for some reason. It is unlikely that replacing the caulking will fix the problem. Although you can try to replace the caulking with an ASTM C920 sealant and hope it works.
Depending on the configuration of your shower it might be possible to install a fiberglass shower pan over the existing shower pan, but would have to be sealed well and isn’t likely to look good.