Whilst fitting new shower mixer this evening, managed to drop it and put a hole in the bath. Whoops.

Obviously a new bath is indicated, but any ideas how to fix it now – hole is about an inch diameter – without taking the bath out.

My best plan at the moment is some plastic sheet and epoxy resin to stick it down. Any other ideas??

Gaffa tape!

Fibre glass repair kit. The kind they use for canoes and ting.

Done it a couple of times, all good.

i did that once.
silicon sealer worked for about 3 month.

Problem is the sheet could lift and you then deposit quite a few gallons of water on the floor and through te ceiling.

If you can get your hand under the bath,get a piece of 6mm plywood, drill a hole for a 6mm bolt , bolt length about 35 mm. chamfer off the edges of the ply and dril hole in centre, now apply a generous amount of silicone sealant, fit over hole, now fit a penny washer over hole in ply and again seal with silicone,insert domed headed bolt, and under the bath atach another piece of 6mm ply, apply a generous coating of silicone, now put on another penny washer, and the nut, tighten and you woill see th esilicone ouzing out around the joints, smear flat, leave to cure for a day.

Fill bath up with water,and mark water level with you in it, and keep an eye out for as drop in water level.

But it should hold,beware of catching yourself on the domed headed bolt.

Cheers guys. Landlords going to be a bit annoyed!

Sikaflex is pretty indestructible
Sold in all the best halfords

Glass fibre repair kit on the out side. When that has set some plastic padding on the inside.

plastic or metal bath? if its a metal bath you may be able to repair it using some e-metal/liquid metal. slowly build it up. or cut the hole a bit bigger and put a plug hole and plug in it.

Loving that last repair 🙂

I did almost exactly the same thing myself a couple of years ago, one phone call and a ton later you couldn’t tell the bath had been repaired.
Unfortunately I cant remember the companies name but they are nationwide.
Think they might have been called hometech or something similer

fibre glass bath. Its not an expensive one, screwfix will do a new one for about 70quid. Temporary fix is a piece of plastic form a croissant box loads of epoxy. Luckily i live in a bungalow, so no risk of ceiling coming down when it inevitably leaks!

thanks guys!

My boy did similar a few years ago, he was having a shower, slipped and put his elbow straight through the bottom of the bath!

We repaired temporarily by doing a repair similar to projects way of doing it.

Problem is the sheet could lift and you then deposit quite a few gallons of water on the floor and through te ceiling.

If you can get your hand under the bath,get a piece of 6mm plywood, drill a hole for a 6mm bolt , bolt length about 35 mm. chamfer off the edges of the ply and dril hole in centre, now apply a generous amount of silicone sealant, fit over hole, now fit a penny washer over hole in ply and again seal with silicone,insert domed headed bolt, and under the bath atach another piece of 6mm ply, apply a generous coating of silicone, now put on another penny washer, and the nut, tighten and you woill see th esilicone ouzing out around the joints, smear flat, leave to cure for a day.

Fill bath up with water,and mark water level with you in it, and keep an eye out for as drop in water level.

But it should hold,beware of catching yourself on the domed headed bolt.

Gafa tape for now and buy new bath 😉

Sellotape and brown paper

Wee use these guys. They’re very good,

http://www.magicman.co.uk/

C

Damn, I though Courtney Love and Hole were playing Bath! Really disappointed now. 🙁

Use expanding foam to fill the gap under the bath and let the foam rise through the hole. When the foam dries cut it back level with the bath and then patch over with fiba glass.

Stans Sealant?

Love the 2nd plug hole suggestion.

thanks guys, its on a corner so of the bath, so projects solution is not going to be a goer, first bath post temporary repair currently being run so fingers crossed. Fibreglass repair kit and expanding foam to be sought today !!

Not good, the epoxy goes a bit soft when it gets wet and hot. We now have a sizeable puddle under the bath. Probably didnt help that my wife decided to run the deepest bath in history. grr.

fibreglass is not waterproof either!

fibreglass is not waterproof either!

EH? So how come they make canoes out of it then?

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thanks guys, its on a corner so of the bath, so projects solution is not going to be a goer, first bath post temporary repair currently being run so fingers crossed. Fibreglass repair kit and expanding foam to be sought today !!

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Use my solution, but use a rubber washer both sides bedded in silicone, make the washer from a piece of old inner tube, use a double piece each side.

Not good, the epoxy goes a bit soft when it gets wet and hot. We now have a sizeable puddle under the bath. Probably didnt help that my wife decided to run the deepest bath in history. grr.

Youve just installed a new shower and the bath is at high risk of leaking with a lot of water in, so the first thing you did was to run a bath? No sympathy, sorry 😆

make the washer from a piece of old inner tube

but not a piece that’s had a puncture 🙂

[Youve just installed a new shower and the bath is at high risk of leaking with a lot of water in, so the first thing you did was to run a bath? No sympathy, sorry ]

In my defence I hadn’t actually got the shower working as yet, so yes it was a high risk strategy, but thats just the kinda guy that I am.