Sorry, I’m sure this is a too basic question–we have sheet vinyl in the bathroom. It is just caulked down at the tub edge. In a few places it’s curling up, which would let water drip down the edge of the tub onto the subfloor. How do I fix this? Do I need to dig out the whole strip of caulk and redo it? What kind of product do I use (there are lots of types of caulks…) Should a nail down a strip of quarter round to keep the vinyl down (I assume I would also need to caulk under that for waterproofing…) Thanks in advance…
M
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M, that's a sign that the water has already found its way under the vinyl and softened the adhesive. You might be able to reglue if you could get enough of it up to spread adhesive under it. If you're looking for a patch that's not too butt ugly, the qtr round might work if you could get nails to reach down to solid subfloor. Or, and I haven't used it, there's an adhesive that's said to be pretty tenacious and clean to use and almost a caulk to boot. Lock-tite is the name. They found it at lowes. If you could apply that to the floor and tub front and weight of spring stick it down, that might be the most appealing answer on how to adhere the qtr round. I guess it might work too if you just want to adhere the lino, if you can get it under the sheet goods.
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Edited 4/28/2005 5:12 pm ET by calvin
My experience is that, once the edge of the vinyl has curled, it's usually a bit stiff and brittle and therefore difficult to get flat again. Quarterround would word, as would a couple of other profiles like screen mould. once it's down, caulk it with a bathtub caulk, one that is advertised as having a mildewcide.
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