What's included
- Old silicone fully removedCut out, scraped back and the residue cleaned off. Fresh silicone over old silicone will not bond and will fail within months.
- Surfaces cleaned and driedMould treated and the joint left properly dry before anything goes back. This is the step that decides whether it lasts.
- Sanitary grade siliconeMould-resistant, in white or clear to suit. Matched to the existing where it matters.
- Tooled to a clean lineBath, shower tray, basin, worktop and splashback edges.
- Advice on why it failedUsually ventilation, a moving bath, or the wrong product last time. If it will just come back I will tell you what needs fixing first.
Common questions
Can you just put new sealant over the old?
No, and anyone who offers to is not doing you a favour. New silicone will not bond to cured silicone, so it lifts away within a few months and traps water behind it. The old bead has to come out.
Why does the mould keep coming back?
Nearly always ventilation. If a bathroom cannot dry out between uses the mould returns no matter how good the silicone is. Worth checking the extractor fan actually pulls, and that the bath is not flexing when you stand in it.
How long before I can use the shower?
Give it 24 hours before it gets wet. It will be touch dry much sooner, but it needs the full cure to seal properly.
Covering Worthing, Shoreham-by-Sea, Lancing, Portslade, Hove and Brighton and the surrounding Sussex coast. Based in Worthing, fully insured through Markel.