Leakages from the bathroom due to gaps in the tile joint

 Wet room is a room too. We are selective about the floor and wall tiles that Adour the wet rooms, viz toilets, balconies of our homes. Aesthetics plays an important part in the choice of tile, colour, size, texture and more, while the laying of tiles on the floor especially its joints are left almost always to the skill and intent of the (Karigar) tile setter in this case.

Ideally, floor tiles in wet rooms should be placed with a gap of 4/6 mm between joints. This gap is achieved using spacers. The benefit of providing tile gaps are:

It takes care of manufacturing errors in tile and bends especially on edges.

Leakages from the bathroom due to gaps in the tile joint
If the situation arises, it is easy to replace a tile W/o impacting the adjoining tile.
It takes care of expansion and movement on the tile floor.
  

Gaps in the tiles lead to leakages from the bathroom or any wet area. to read more click on the link: https://leakproof.in/leakages-in-the-bathroom-due-to-gaps-in-the-title-joint/

Leakages in Modern High Rise Building

Modern High-Rise buildings have typical floor plates stacked one above the other.

The location of wet rooms, viz toilets, kitchens, dry balconies are built around a central core with the passage in between and habitable spaces around it.

In case of leakages in the ceiling of habitable spaces, the obvious link of source of the leakage is sought at the floor above.

Typical ways of resolving leakage issues are by checking for pressure drops in water supply lines to ascertain leakage in the pipes and posting that to check for drain lines and floors.

Conventional solutions involve breaking tiles- floor/wall or both as the situation demands, resolving pipe leakage if any, redoing waterproofing and finally relaying the tiles.

In recent times it has been noticed that this system of leakage resolution gives temporary or no relief in certain cases. It is advised to break tiles only and only if all other options are ruled out and not as the first line of defence.

Modern technologies assist in mapping the likely source of leakage to the exact spot assisting in minimal works resulting in saving of time and convenience.

This can be done by a waterproofing expert with gadgets like Thermal Scanner Moisture Meter, and even Wall and Floor Detector.

An important aspect to note is that, while we may resolve the leakage for now.

The fact that the water found its way through the structure and resulted in leakage below indicates the presence of gaps or passageways.

In short, we can say that the waterproofing is porous.

In such a situation it is advised to carry out injection grouting in the source area as well as in the affected portions of the lower floor to ensure complete sealing of gaps and passageway, which may be existing due to a combination of reasons rising during the construction stage.

We at Leakproof.in provide solutions for all types of internal leakages without breakage.