What do we do about a new tile shower cracking apart?
The grout is cracked the whole way in one corner, all along the bottom, and part of the way of the other corner. The contractor refused to even look at it until finally in December he said he would after the holidays. After the holidays he said he closed his business at the end of the year. This is the same contractor who did the horrible job with the windows in a new room he built for us. He said the cracking drywall is our fault because we didn't let him frame around the windows, we wanted the windows to look the same as all of the other windows in the house. The contractor installed the shower door himself and caulked OVER grout, mortar, construction dust. There are globs and smears everywhere. Water leaks under the door now. Please tell me the fix isn't as bad as I think it might be. Thanks for your help!
Most shower door assemblies have a groove along the back of the metal frame, One inside and one out. If a healthy bead of caulk is applied to these "channels" the frame will be sealed from both sides and a "second" caulk application is not needed inside or out...the seal is "hidden" under the ...»
You may have some limited success removing all of the crappy caulking and re-applying a tidy bead along the inside edge.
Sorry for your luck here and with the windows. Please don't let your experience with this terrible contractors give you a bitter taste for the rest of us.
As to your bathroom here, you are going to have to redo the entire thing. While it is maybe repairable, were it me, I would not touch the repairs as a contractor with a 10 foot pole. Once I did ...»
Save these photos (and the window ones), there may be a legal battle in your future with this contractor.
As for the shower, it is hard to tell from the photos, but at the very least the shower will ...»