Comments on: Bathroom Caulking

By: joe

joe — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:28:16 +0000

To answer Karen, i came looking to see if i did my job correctly. I followed the instructions on a sliding shower door i bought at home depot. The instructions say not to caulk the inside bottom track – they dont say why… I’ll assume that between the instructions and what you heard, that must be correct.

By: HRG

HRG — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:47:06 +0000

If you have a sliding shower door, you’ll want to caulk underneath the rails in most cases, i.e. where they meet the shower pan. The rail itself should have “weeping holes” on the interior vertical lip for any accumulated water that drips down the doors to escape and seep back into the pan. If these holes don’t exist, have been caulked over or are too small, you can always open them up with a metal drill bit until you see water draining quickly down the doors and through the weep holes.

By: Karen Carman

Karen Carman — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:31:06 +0000

Should there be a caulk line on the inside of a shower door on the bottom. We were told that there needs to be an escape of water under the rail and that is why it wasn’t caulked.