If your shower is leaking, you may have noticed a few different things such as wet carpet or water damage to the floor near the bathroom door, swelling of timbers around your door, damage to walls on the other side of the bathroom particularly at the recess. 

There could be rusting, grout missing, cracked tiles or visible signs of water damage around or below your bathroom.

On buildings with multiple levels, you may notice water damage to ceiling below bathroom or water damage on the ceiling below the shower. Some people even report water flooding into downstairs from upstairs shower.

There could be damaged or missing grout and silicone, broken, cracked or chipped tiles, or porous grout in the grout joints.

Some people notice a musky smell in bathroom from the mould that can be caused through water leaks in bathrooms.

Some signs of a leaking shower or shower over bath include:

• Discoloured or mouldy grout & silicone
• Missing grout on the wall or floor
• Missing silicone on the wall or floor
• Exposed holes around taps, baths, shower screens
• Damp or wet areas, wet carpet, musty smells
• Bubbling paints or visible mould
• Visible gaps anywhere on the shower floor or wall
• No silicone on the corner junctions of the shower
• Watermarks on ceilings or walls
• Swollen or damaged or rusting door frames
• Damaged or swollen architraves
• Cracked tiles sometimes visible
• Separation at joint between wall and floor
• Movement in the walls or floor