No one is going to convince me that a tile wall in a tub or shower needs weep holes like a brick veneer.
Weep holes inside shower door.
It seems the water is all inside the base of my door and is just running back in to the area where i pulled out the caulking.
Shower pans and tubs sometimes have a lip built into the flange that collects water like a small gutter.
Frameless shower doors usually have seals installed on the vertical edge that meets the stationary pane in order to keep water from exiting through the crack while still allowing the door to swing.
This is something that can be done in place but you need to be very cautious not to nick the edge of the glass in the process.
The original installer caulked the inside and outside of the shower door threshold but the threshold has weep holes that are not covered see attached picture.
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Home shower questions from visitors weep holes allow water to drain out of the shower frame and into the shower.
If you trap water inside the track it will then find another escape route and that s why we have so many shower door leaks.
But you don t want to caulk over the weep holes inside the shower.
If the tile job is installed over a water proof system backer like it should be why would you expect the tile wall to weep.
Weep holes allow water to drain out of the shower frame and into the shower.
Those holes on the bottom are weep holes and must be left exposed.
It would appear to me that the weep holes will allow water in and with both sides of the threshold caulked the water can not escape.
The best solution one that you have already cited is to drill holes at the bottom of the aluminum channel that will allow the water that gets into it to weep back out into the shower.
Weep holes allow water to drain out of the shower frame and into the shower.
Out of sight out of mind.
The lip will have an opening at corners and or ends to drain the water out and into the tub.
These small drain holes at the bottom of the metal track inside the shower allow condensation and water to drain back into the shower.
The shower has never been used so we don t know if water would collect on the track.
I saw you through google and hoped you may be able to answer my question.
When the weep openings are caulked over the water cannot get out so it collects and rots the inside of the wall.
Is there such a thing as a shower door track without weep holes.
The photos show instead of a conventional channel a sloped low lip on the side of the pan with no room for holes even if we wanted to drill some.
These are indeed openings.
Shower door rail has openings inside the shower.
