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I was called to a customers house to look at why the kitchen ceiling was leaking water. On inspecting the bathroom above the shower tray had cracked and on ripping it out I found it had been 'bedded' with tile adhesive, which had barely touched the bottom of the tray, giving a good 4mm of travel and clearly the reason it had cracked. The floorboards had been ripped out and class 2 18mm ply used instead which was wet, black from mould and not thick enough for the joist spacing. None of the shower area was waterproofed, the amount of mastic used was astronomical, tubes and tubes of the stuff. Missing grout in the tiles at the tray join and corners has caused the regular plasterboard behind to get wet and rot out and water had been escaping in other areas such as unsealed hot and cold feeds in the floor for the bath as well as the bath waste. A non fast flow trap that did not match the flow from the shower caused water to spill over the shower tray onto the floor, a lot of which ended up on the kitchen ceiling through gaps in the floor/walls. The original builder didn't seem to agree that the bathroom needed adequate waterproofing, not just in high use areas - where it was failing anyway - but elsewhere in a room that would be fully expected to see water over the floor every day to a more or lesser degree.
To add to that almost 50% of the ceiling joists in some places had been cut away for all the services and that's right across all the joists in that room, some are like swiss cheese (a bit like the bathroom floor!) and structural integrity must have been compromised, so much so that I think an SE needs to inspect them.
I wrote a report and the original builder disagreed this was terribly substandard work. What are your thoughts? I'm posting this to try and get a balance to my report without forcing the customer to have to fork out for another guy to inspect the work. Look forward to your comments.
To add to that almost 50% of the ceiling joists in some places had been cut away for all the services and that's right across all the joists in that room, some are like swiss cheese (a bit like the bathroom floor!) and structural integrity must have been compromised, so much so that I think an SE needs to inspect them.
I wrote a report and the original builder disagreed this was terribly substandard work. What are your thoughts? I'm posting this to try and get a balance to my report without forcing the customer to have to fork out for another guy to inspect the work. Look forward to your comments.
