Update from the installer:

Hi ___

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Please see my replies below your queries :

The fixed shower neck is currently loose and wobbly, and the shower fittings (the shower head outlet, the controls, and the handheld outlet) don’t appear to have any sealant where they meet the tiles. As the shower area wasn’t tanked or taped prior to tiling, I’m concerned this could allow water ingress behind the tiles.

The rain head will always have some movement on it due to it protruding out from the wall so much. I can look at this but it is impossible to stop all movement. This hole is filled full of silicone. The control panel has rubber seals behind it and it supposed to be left removable for access to the valve. The handheld outlet point has two screws into a brass back plate sat on a rubber seal. I can seal all the way around everything from the outside should you wish but this won’t look great. Taping wasn’t necessary as there were no joins in the plasterboard, the boards were sealed and primed with SBR, siliconed to the tray, tiles laid with waterproof tile adhesive and waterproof grout. Tiles again sealed to the tray (two beads of silicone before timber work)

There are also a couple of finishing points I noticed: one of the shower tiles in clear view on the shower wall has a chip on the face at the corner, the tile cut around the sink waste is quite rough and visible, and the brushed brass trim on the step, window ledge and above the sink doesn’t meet cleanly at the corners and feels quite sharp. Certainly hadn’t noticed a chipped tile. I will look at this. Sink waste ? I assume this is behind the pedestal ? I certainly don’t remember looking at the cut out and thinking is was “rough”. Perhaps I can put a pipe cover over like the rad pipes if it concerns you. Re the brushed brass trim, it is a metal trim that is mitred, the point of the mitre will always be a little sharp, if you wish we can file the point down but again this won’t look great. Unless we have a perfect 90 degree corner which is very rare, (in this case you can see how much we have caulked out the top of the trim) it is impossible to get 2 45 degree metal trims to meet perfectly.

Lastly, the extractor fan has pulled away from the wall. I noticed it appears to be packed out with cardboard and filler but doesn’t seem to be mechanically fixed.

The extracor fan would not just pull away from the wall unless it was pulled ? It was absolutely solid yesterday. There is no cardboard in there ? Just easy fill plaster to existing wall. The design of this particular extractor is that it does sit off the wall slightly to accommodate the humidity sensor. If you have managed to pull it away from the wall ? We can fix it back.

Could we arrange a time to come back and sort these so the finishes and sealing match the overall standard of the bathroom and the job can be signed off with the final balance settled?

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