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So I'm re-caulking the inside corners and around the tub (blue lines) because the caulk was getting moldy but as you can see there are two places where the inside corners meet the outside edge of the wall tile (red lines) which has perfectly good caulk.
I know caulking over old caulk is a big no no but I'd really hate to remove the caulk alongside the outside edge because that would ruin the paint. So I wonder if there is a high risk of moisture seeping in where blue meets red due to a bad bond should I choose not to remove all the caulk there or maybe it's all good since water should not be reaching that high anyway.
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>>1215491
why are you here op?
you know what the options are, what the room is like, how messy you are in the shower, where the water goes.
do you really trust the opinion of an anonymous stranger over your own?
you will inevitably get two kinds of reply telling you to go either way. which one will you take and which will you ignore?
the truth is you already know what is the right way to do it and you already know what solution you are going to adopt, you are simply here to ease your conscience.
this is simply procrastination.
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>>1215491
IF and IF the shower was installed correctly, you don't need to seal any of those lines. There will be cement board and a moisture barrier behind it. The grout does the work of dispersing the water appropriately.
The only place to seal is the one you didn't mark: where the basin meets the floor of the bathroom. you don't want any seepage into that joint.
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>>1215491
just buy a new house
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>>1215517
I know but... the paint. I was just doing some preemptive work and now I have to PAINT? Before opening this thread I had already removed most of the blue line caulk and was ready to seal the whole thing, but then I reached the top inner corners and realized the outside edge was caulked aswell.
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>>1215559
>IF and IF the shower was installed correctly, you don't need to seal any of those lines
Well, that's just not something I would know. I'm just replacing like for like here, and I'm definitely not leaving an open gap there.
>The only place to seal is the one you didn't mark: where the basin meets the floor of the bathroom. you don't want any seepage into that joint.
Should I? There's a grout line there though. On second thought, there is a bit of separation between the grout and the basin. What should I use there?
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