Underneath Bath leak/Bare Floorboards

Blakey1982

Hi everyone.
Hoping someone can help. We had a leak under the bath due to the overflow coming off the waste outlet and letting all the water from the both onto the floor. The kithen ceilig began to p*ss with water and we now need to re-plaster.

The leak is fixed now however I couldn't help thinking that underneath the bath are bare floorboards and should here be something under the bath??

Recenty some water went over the side of a very deep bath (my 4 yr old son!!) and a a but of water came through the kitchen ceiling. When I took the bath panel off it had gone onto the vinyl, then under the bath, and down the gaps in the floorboards.

Any advice on this? Should I do something under the bath??

Thanks

Hintza

No probably not, just have a big bath mat and hopefully it will catch most of the water. If you have a bad spill soak up as much as you can and take the bath panel off so it dries out quicker.

Jamie_Carter

It isn't normal to have anything except bare floorboards under the bath. If fact it is very common to not even have floorboards.

Have you claimed on your insurance?

Blakey1982

Thanks for reply. It wasn't bad enough to claim on the insurance.

I may just put something down the is of the bath panel to catch any water then

Thanks for the advice

Jamie_Carter

Blakey1982 wrote: »

Thanks for reply. It wasn't bad enough to claim on the insurance.

I may just put something down the is of the bath panel to catch any water then

Thanks for the advice

If there is a timber frame behind the bath panel, then just seal between the floor and this frame with silicon.

Blakey1982

So seal the bath panel at the bottom??

Jamie_Carter

Blakey1982 wrote: »

So seal the bath panel at the bottom??

I personally wouldn't seal the bath panel, as you might need to remove it for access. But if there is a length of timber frame behind the bath panel on the floor, then seal that to the floor. If not, then make a ridge of silicon behind the bath panel to stop water running past it.

scousedave

Best way is to lay 18mm ply or a hardiboard and then tile.
Can be a little costly but against future lesks and the cost of replastering the ceiling.
Just something to consider...ps never tile straight on to floorboards..always lay ply orbharfiboard first otherewise there will be lateral movement and the tiles will crack

Jamie_Carter

scousedave wrote: »

Best way is to lay 18mm ply or a hardiboard and then tile.
Can be a little costly but against future lesks and the cost of replastering the ceiling.
Just something to consider...ps never tile straight on to floorboards..always lay ply orbharfiboard first otherewise there will be lateral movement and the tiles will crack

I don't think that would solve the OP's problem.

googler

...and get the plumber to fit the overflow properly this time.....

Seriously, if the plumbing work is done properly, there's little need to guard against mishaps like this.

Yes, it's standard practice to have bare flooring below the bath, and tile/lino/carpet up to the edge of the bath panel.

If you spilled the same amount of water in the main area of flooring, all that would happen would be that it would spread out, and spill off the edge of the flooring to run into the cavity below the bathroom floor, and spread out from there. The flooring isn't there to seal the water in, it's for decor only.

Blakey1982

Excellent. Thanks all.