Watson524
Member
Hi all,
We have our glass framed shower door out because of mold forming at the silicone seal (we found out it's because water gets in the bottom piece and the weep holes are a bit too high to let it out so it seems the mold formed inside that bottom rail and then came out into the silicone (install almost 9 years ago when house was built).
Anyway, we have scraped all the old silicone off VERY close to the shower itself with a scrape blade and have been going over it and over it with a variety of products and scotch brite type pads and paint scrapers. One section I have down to literally nothing, run your finger over it, can't feel a thing. In the next area, there's still a FINE FINE film left. When folks say "ALL" silicone needs to come off, how anal do I really need to be about it? Seems like at this rate I'll need another week just to get things cleaned up. There's no stickiness or anything left, but if you run your finger on it, you feel the line a bit. I actually contemplated taking my buffer that I use on the boat (either rotary or regular one) and some compound to see what that did but opted for some Bon Ami and a damp scotch brite pad to see what that did before I took power tools to it.
thanks in advance!
We have our glass framed shower door out because of mold forming at the silicone seal (we found out it's because water gets in the bottom piece and the weep holes are a bit too high to let it out so it seems the mold formed inside that bottom rail and then came out into the silicone (install almost 9 years ago when house was built).
Anyway, we have scraped all the old silicone off VERY close to the shower itself with a scrape blade and have been going over it and over it with a variety of products and scotch brite type pads and paint scrapers. One section I have down to literally nothing, run your finger over it, can't feel a thing. In the next area, there's still a FINE FINE film left. When folks say "ALL" silicone needs to come off, how anal do I really need to be about it? Seems like at this rate I'll need another week just to get things cleaned up. There's no stickiness or anything left, but if you run your finger on it, you feel the line a bit. I actually contemplated taking my buffer that I use on the boat (either rotary or regular one) and some compound to see what that did but opted for some Bon Ami and a damp scotch brite pad to see what that did before I took power tools to it.
thanks in advance!