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Leakages from the bathroom due to gaps in the tile joint

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  A wet room is a room too. We are selective about the floor and wall tiles that Adour the wet rooms, viz toilets, balconies of our homes. Aesthetics plays an important part in the choice of tile, colour, size, texture and more, while the laying of tiles on the floor especially its joints are left almost always to the skill and intent of the (Karigar) tile setter in this case. Ideally, floor tiles in wet rooms should be placed with a gap of 4/6 mm between joints. This gap is achieved using spacers. The benefit of  providing tile gaps are: It takes care of manufacturing errors in tile and bends especially on edges. Leakages from the bathroom due to gaps in the tile joint If the situation arises, it is easy to replace a tile W/o impacting the adjoining tile. It takes care of expansion and movement on the tile floor.    Gaps in the tiles lead to leakages from the bathroom or any wet area. to read more click on the link:  https://leakproof.in/leakages-in-the-bathroom-due-to-gaps-in-the-tit

Leakages in Modern High Rise Building

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 Modern High-Rise buildings have typical floor plates stacked one above the other. The location of wet rooms, viz toilets, kitchens, dry balconies are built around a central core with the passage in between and habitable spaces around it. In case of leakages in the ceiling of habitable spaces, the obvious link of source of the leakage is sought at the floor above. Typical ways of resolving leakage issues are by checking for pressure drops in water supply lines to ascertain leakage in the pipes and posting that to check for drain lines and floors. Conventional solutions involve breaking tiles- floor/wall or both as the situation demands, resolving pipe leakage if any, redoing waterproofing and finally relaying the tiles. In recent times it has been noticed that this system of leakage resolution gives temporary or no relief in certain cases. It is advised to break tiles only and only if all other options are ruled out and not as the first line of defence. Modern technologies assist in m