Pepys Street RTM Company Limited

Have you checked your bathroom recently?

If you don't regularly check the bathroom for leaks such as the bath waste, the toilet cistern and the silicone seals round the bath/shower, water will eventually leak through to the flat below or even several floors down to the car park area. If this is allowed to continue for months, water could soak the wooden lining beneath the ceramic floor tiles and in due course they will start lifting. It is also worth checking the grouting on wall and floor tiles to avoid water seeping beneath them.

If the matter is allowed to get this far, you will have a major and costly repair job on your hands since the ceramic floor tiles will have to be lifted, and most probably replaced, as well as the wooden lining beneath the tiles.

It is therefore strongly recommended that you regularly check the bathroom for such leaks. If your flat is rented, don't rely on the tenants or the agent servicing your flat or the cleaners to alert you when there is a problem because more often than not they don't!

If you want assistance with rectifying leaks, replacing leaking seals or re-grouting of tiles see here for help.