How to repair a damaged ceramic shower tray

hybernia

Topic heading says it all.

A couple of months ago, I was stupid enough to take notice of reviews on an Amazon UK webpage about a particular product, a rubber bladed wiper of water / condensation / etc from the plastic glass surface of a walk-in shower.

It looked good to me: the wiper when not in use rested in a little basket of its own, firmly secured to the shower wall by a sucker.

Turns out, the only sucker has been me: the 'firmly secured' stuff was just fantasy, because after 6 weeks in situ in our ensuite, the sucker gave up the ghost and the wiper and basket crashed down onto the lip of the ceramic shower tray. (This happened at 3.30 in the morning; we thought for a moment we were having a break-in.)

The damage to the shower tray by this cheap Chinese junk is very noticeable. Sadly, neither OH nor I are skillful enough in the way of these things to know how to repair the damage (see


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Advice on what to do would be much appreciated -- we don't know if there's a product our there at one of the DIY stores which we could buy and use ourselves, or whether it's going to be necessary to ring the plumber |(or even a plasterer) to get the shower looking as pristine as it was before I was stupid enough to buy this cleaning device for it.:(

(Also appreciated: some clear, accurate, up to date advice on how to get hosted pictures to display in the text of a topic or topic reply. I've found only one such advice thread on MSE, now closed, and long out of date: a screed of incomprehensible nonsense about the long defunct Tinypic and also a recommendation to use the rip-off Photobucket. As if.

spadoosh

Mine cracked so used gaffer tape (a white gaffer tape) which worked really well for a temporary solution.

You can buy ceramic repair kits....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ronseal-KBRK-Kitchen-Bathroom-Repair/dp/B001GU8CX0/ref=sr_1_8?adgrpid=70610987649&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoc29yJH55gIVirHtCh02hwZWEAAYASAAEgLD8_D_BwE&hvadid=338422064547&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046527&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6832891910580751965&hvtargid=kwd-304252123835&hydadcr=26243_1767753&keywords=ceramic+repair+kits&qid=1578662900&sr=8-8

Other brands/products will be available.

Shaun_of_the_Dead

I used one from toolstation. The repair was fine but colour match wasn't the best. It'll be better than the damage already there.

hybernia

Big thankyous to spadoosh and Shaun: the instant help really is appreciated. Sorry if my post has become a bit jangled since I submitted it: I'd spent so long on a clunky free image hosting website to which I'd been recommended as being "the easiest and best" for linking to Internet forums -- the site is called imgbbr or something: definitely not recommended, not a word of help anywhere in its stripped-down extent as to how to use it, and with controls, such as they are, that are anything but intuitive. So I've deleted my images from the site, closed my account, and unfortunately that meant the links in here weren't linking to anything any more. I'm now trying something called ImageShack, hopefully with more success.



Back to my original query: I'll check out the white gaffer tape (for the moulding and shaping, seeing as how the ceramic ridge has been damaged) and also the repair kit Spadoosh has kindly mentioned.



Moral of the story: do NOT, ever, stick anything up in a shower enclosure unless you're using permanent fixings, NOT "sucker" mechanisms which, when they fail, will result in a bigger mess than anything you may have had before. And don't be foolish enough to think that an Amazon customer review is Gospel.

shaun_from_Africa

I've no idea of the cost or effectiveness but there are a few companies that carry out this sort of repair:

https://www.magicman.co.uk/examples/baths-and-basins/

https://www.plastic-surgeon.co.uk/bathroom-repairs/shower-tray/ (ignore the name, they say that they do ceramic repairs as well)

phill99

Ceramic shower trays are a very rare thing. I'd be surprised if it was ceramic. It is more likely to be stone resin.


Firstly, it is repairable and you can get a professional repair for around £150 from the likes of the magicman.


Secondly, this will be covered on your house insurance. However, they will more than likely send some to repair it as opposed to replace it. Your excess is likely to be more than the cost of the repair though!!