Sealants for the protection of the bathroom

You can not dispute the fact that there is always a high humidity in your bathroom because it is related to the specifics of this room. A warm and humid environment creates favorable conditions for the reproduction of microorganisms, which contribute to the destruction of building materials and lead to diseases of residents. Even good ventilation of the bathroom is not capable of blocking all the ways of multiplying microbes, only careful isolation of all seams and joints with a sealant containing substances that destroy these microorganisms will allow you to close this problem.

Types of polymeric sealants for the bathroom

Good silicone sealant - is not afraid of temperature difference - from 50 to + 200 degrees Celsius. Not a bad adhesion to most materials, neutral to UV and has a long service life of up to 40 years.

Acid silicone sealant can not be used with metals, neutral can be, but its cost is more expensive.

Acrylic - can be resistant to moisture and non-moisture, the seam of this sealant is not elastic enough. Undoubtedly, moisture resistant more suited to the bathroom, it finally hardens in a day, as well as silicone is not afraid of temperature and UV.

The best sealant for the bathroom - silicone-acrylic, aquarium it is the same elastic and durable, as well as the polymers of which it is made. Moreover, it is used as a silicone sealant for gluing surfaces and has no equal in durability and elasticity.

Polyurethane - good adhesion to materials, the seam of it is elastic and durable, not afraid of mechanical influences. It is easy to paint, the time to dry the sealant is 8 hours with one-meter layer thickness.

Sealant for a bath, which is better?

According to buyers' feedback, sealants with fungicidal inclusions are more suitable for bathing, which prevent mold and resist the moisture and temperature differences well.

Protecting all docking surfaces in the bathroom room gives us a guarantee against water leakage to the floor and inside the walls, to protect neighbors from the bottom from flooding.

Small seams in the bathroom, up to 0.5 cm wide, provided that the surfaces are firmly fastened and located along the perimeter is recommended to be filled with fugue - with trowel .In the grout, you can pre-mix the paint, which is suitable for the color of the lining. The waterproof fugue used for grouting tiles in swimming pools is most suitable as a material to protect all available connecting surfaces in the bath. To prevent rust from damaging the color of the fugue, the joint is additionally treated with a special shiny compound. When the bottom of the bathroom is tiled, you also need to apply the same grout for sealing.

The gaps in the bathroom are best suited for closing them with a silicone-acrylic sealant that is resistant to moisture. This sealant for the acrylic bath allows you to eliminate the gap width of up to one and a half centimeters.

The package for it can be a tube or cartridge, the color is chosen according to your taste, a special gun is required for the cartridge. Sealants for the gun are much better than those in the tube.

How to apply sealant to the bath?

To apply the butt sealant to the bath, try to follow the instructions below:

1. We clean the tub of dirt and damp, then dry it and the walls around.
2. Degrease the joints to be sealed.
3. We paste the paint tape to determine the boundaries of the seam and make it even.
4. Cut the tip of the cartridge or tube at a certain angle, from which the width of the seam will depend.
5. Pressing the pistol grip or pressing on the tube, we impose a uniform seam on the joint of the bathroom with the walls with even movements.
6. To align the seam by lowering the finger into the soap solution, we conduct it on the joints.

If the gap is large enough, up to 3 cm, it is sealed with skirting boards made of ceramics. There are three ways to accomplish this:

- buy special ceramic curbs and apply them as skirting boards;

- if you have left the material used to cover the walls of the bathroom, then this will be the best option for ceramic frieze;

- the most time-consuming method - to cut out the desired sample from the tile yourself;

First recommended, if the gap is very large, seal the joint with polyurethane foam. Then you can make a cement-sand mortar, put the tile, trying to keep the angle of 45 degrees. It will be even better if you in the same way manage to lay out the places of joining the walls and the floor in the bathroom.

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A cheaper way to protect the bathroom

There is a cheaper way to protect the bathroom - using plastic skirting boards or plastic corners with rubber edges, they should be planted on the glue "liquid nails".The property of elasticity of a plastic material makes it possible to differentiate the shifts of the base of the bath, which are possible when moving it. Pre-treat all joints with silicone, then cover with corners. In the event that the corners go away, the waterproof sealant will block the further path of water.

You can use a self-adhesive tape to protect the seam in the bathroom. The tape is available in different widths, but it must be glued according to the recommendations, otherwise it will not last long. To avoid this, you need to use the glue "liquid nails" or silicone sealant.

If such work should be done in a bath with wooden floors, then you can use a special sealant for wood. It optimally performs compensatory actions due to its high intrinsic coefficient of expansion.

Removing the sealant from the surface of the

sealant Before working on protecting the bathroom, you sometimes have to remove the old sealant or clean the bath of a new but already dried silicone. To remove the sealant from the bath you need to use a sharp scraper and brush. Picking up the slope of the scraper, with sharp and rapid movements of the hand, we cut off the old sealant, and brush away the removed pieces of silicone.

It is possible to clean the sealant from the bath with white spirit, but there is a danger of damaging the product, and if it was painted, the paint will be removed together with the silicone.

Foam-840 is another substance used to remove sealant from a bath. With the help of this composition, the silicone is completely destroyed and does not damage the product. In the case where the product remains film, it is recommended to clean it with acetic acid.

How to prevent fungus and mold in the bathroom

The first measure when finding small moist spots is treating them with hydrogen peroxide or table vinegar. When you find a fungus on the sealant in the bathroom to get rid of this scourge, you need:

- to ventilate the room, opening the windows completely and it is desirable to have "swinging" windows made of plastic;

- do not close the bathroom, leave a gap in order to level the humidity and temperature;

- Infected surfaces should be treated with a special agent up to the concrete or brickwork;

When you see the mold on the sealant in the bathroom, you can use folk remedies:

Place creosote treated with either a solution of ten liters of water with one kilogram of copper sulfate, or 1.5 kg of sodium fluoride, also a solution consisting of half a kilogram of copper sulfate and two liters of acetic acid per ten liters of water.

Sealing of water supply pipes in the bathroom

When sealing the bath itself, one should not forget about the work to eliminate leaks in water supply and sewerage pipes that are located in this room. In this case, special silicone sealants are used for sewage pipes of two types - acid and neutral. The latter are suitable for all surfaces and aqueous media, the former are not suitable for interaction with acids. Silicone sealant is used not only to seal plastic pipes, but also has proven itself sewer pipes made of cast iron.

Sanitary sealants are used in bathrooms, which have high adhesion properties and are used in the protection of seams in the interiors of sanitary ware and walls.

The same type applies to sanitary plumbing for pipes, which serves to protect the connections of individual elements of pipelines. They are designed to maintain high leakage protection, both at low and high pressure, and also provide good sealing at high temperature conditions in pipe connections.