Hey guys, pretty gloomy kind of a day for me, I took down and packed away, the last of the Christmas lights today. It always bums me out to do that and then I came in the house to watch Green Bay blow the game...
Then the wife discovered a leak in my daughters shower, trying to find the source of a mildew smell coming from the shower. So, what does she do, she removes a piece of the molding, and brings it outside to me and asks, " what is this black stuff behind the molding"? Ummmm, like mold....I said lets call a contractor to fix it and I get this look, you know the look, (if your a married man).
So, off I go, get lots of tools from the garage, my drill, buckets, etc...and head upstairs to the bathroom. And so, upon further investigation, I ended up tearing out the shower door and frame, removing 2 courses of tile and the concrete backer board behind it and drilling out the gasket and removing the shower pan; it was mold behind it and underneath the pan.
Good news is, the sub-flooring looks so far to be ok. The cause of the leak was that whoever installed the shower door and frame, never used any silicone caulk on the inside of the frame, at the lower corner/ 90 degree, and every time someone used the shower it would leak. It had to of have been that way since it was installed 11 years ago.
I'm going to have to tear all the rest of the tile out and the remaining backer board. It looks like it will have to be a full blown renovation in that bathroom, you know how it is, once you touch it, it's like a domino effect, you have to do it all.....
And, I was sooo busy, I forgot to eat dinner, so I settled for a bag of Kettle Chips and some nuts.....
Ok, that's my rambling....