Estate Agents Blaming Me

Blackpool_Saver

Oh absolutely, in this country you need permission to use a toilet in a rented property, you also have to account for each flush and wipe

moromir

Oh Blackpool_Saver deal with the chip on your shoulder!

Why on earth WOULDN'T you check with the landlord that the installation was suitable to add a shower before adding a shower?

My bath for example, only has three courses of tiles above it. Would I add a shower attachment to it?

No, because I rather like my kitchen underneath to stay dry.

Ergo, if the landlord agreed the tenant could add a shower attachment, if the leak is due to water coming through the seals, over the tiles or the bath flexing off its waste connector due to someone standing to shower, then thats the landlord's problem provided the OP hasn't let it leak for weeks.

googler

moromir wrote: »

You're missing the point... when being used as a bath this wouldn't matter because theres no water being directed at the area where the flex would happen (where the bath meets the seal) like there is when theres a shower.

Moreover you're not considering that a bath full of water is a distributed weight....

I stand by the assertion that if a bath 'flexes' enough to either open up the sealant joints, or 'flex off its waste', then it was a chronically poor installation in the first place. Plumbers don't use different installation methods depending on whether or not a bath will be used as only a bath, or a bath/shower.

Blackpool_Saver

moromir wrote: »

Oh Blackpool_Saver deal with the chip on your shoulder!

Why on earth WOULDN'T you check with the landlord that the installation was suitable to add a shower before adding a shower?

Because I would find out that information for myself from a plumber, instead of asking the landlord for every damn little thing.
I resent the implication that because you rent you are too thick to find out things for yourself.
I don't NEED to be told that walls need tiles or that water pressure is a factor, and anything I do not know I will find out myself thanks, WITHOUT phoning the agent to phone the landlord to phone back and to phone me, it's bloody ridiculous.

Ergo:rotfl:

Tenyearstogo

moromir wrote: »

Oh Blackpool_Saver deal with the chip on your shoulder!

Why on earth WOULDN'T you check with the landlord that the installation was suitable to add a shower before adding a shower?

My bath for example, only has three courses of tiles above it. Would I add a shower attachment to it?

No, because I rather like my kitchen underneath to stay dry.

Ergo, if the landlord agreed the tenant could add a shower attachment, if the leak is due to water coming through the seals, over the tiles or the bath flexing off its waste connector due to someone standing to shower, then thats the landlord's problem provided the OP hasn't let it leak for weeks.

It's not a shower though. It's an attachment. Used to wash your hair whilst you're sat in the bath or leaning over the edge.

I have successful used these myself, on many occasions, despite having no knowledge of plumbing. A huge risk but I must've been lucky because I've managed not to flood anything.

gary224

thanks guys for more comments

To add.

I removed the shower anyway and a 2nd leak started.

The 2nd leak happened after the plumber came to fix it. and the 2nd leak happened after i removed the shower thing already.

googler

gary224 wrote: »

thanks guys for more comments

To add.

I removed the shower anyway and a 2nd leak started.

The 2nd leak happened after the plumber came to fix it. and the 2nd leak happened after i removed the shower thing already.

Where is it leaking from? Same place as first? Different?

Where, exactly?

gary224

hi googler.

yes. same place.

googler

gary224 wrote: »

hi googler.

yes. same place.

Which is ... where, exactly?

chris_m

googler wrote: »

Which is ... where, exactly?

The bathroom?