What material to seal the gap between bath and wall?

[Mehitabel]

I've found a couple options I could buy yo fix this - would you recommend either or something different?


Amazon product

PREMTOOL Self Adhesive Bath Surround Seal WHITE BS335W

20 x 20mm WHITE Self Adhesive Water Tight Butyl Seal Length: 3.35m Mildew Resistant Also good for resealing leaky baths and showers Ideal for covering exsisting dirty or stained Silicone

www.protilertools.co.uk

 

[Deleted member 120897]

It looks as though your bath may have dropped slightly, or the floor has. Are you able to adjust the bath legs up first?

 

[Ric2013]

I'd rather you than me. Bath really needs taking out and fitting properly, but that's probably not an option. If the bath moves a lot, you might be better off with duct tape until you can stop it moving as anything else will not last long enough to be worth the hassle.

I don't like using strip. Sometimes you have to to cover an ugly gap, but it would be better to seal behind the strip with silicone so you aren't relying on the strip to make the seal. Strip often doesn't seal effectively and fails to stay in position. If you try this one with success, do let us know!

I wonder if you can get behind the bath (perhaps from below) and form a backing to cover the gap with expanding foam or what have you and then you have something to pack the silicone against. Or just use silicone in between as best you can and also surface mount it to form a kind of miniature scotia moulding over the front edge of the tiles. It won't be the neatest bath edge on the planet, but can be made reasonably presentable (use masking tape to get a clean edge if you haven't much experience with silicone).

 

[king of pipes]

A thorough clean down is needed first before applying anything , as other have advised check for movement and rectify this first before using Dow Corning 785 to fill the gap and smoothing off using a silicone smoothing tool and soapy water as below fill the bath with water and leave full untill fully cured. Kop