Water seeping through silicone

[Brendak]

I had a new bathroom installed last year with a shower cubicle. The problem is that when the shower is used a lot some water seeps up through the silicone at floor level on the opposite side of the room. The area of wetness is between the WC and handbasin. There is no sign of wetness on the ceiling directly below. My plumber thinks I am imagining it but my husband has also witnessed it. Any idea of what could be happening?

 

[PlumbBobBob]

do you know if the floor and walls were tanked i.e waterproofed before being tiled?

 

[Brendak]

They are not tiled. The floor has vinyl floor covering and the walls have not yet been painted.

 

[Guest123]

Sounds like a slow blockage, an obstruction that causes a build of water in the pipework and you have a leak there. Water does weird things, it can even be travelling under your linoleum and coming out at the area you have specified. The only real course of action instead of speculating what the cause MIGHT be is to lift the linoleum, run the shower for the length of time that you reckon causes the water penetration and find the cause that way.

Better still, post your location and have someone on the forum who lives near by pop round and have a look.

 

[kay-jay]

if the floor was ply'ed out before vinyl was laid then you have two close fitting surfaces! a leak beneath the shower possibly from waste or behind the seals will result in water at floor level, the closer two surfaces are the more 'suction' works to pull liquid between them, its called 'capillary attraction' and is the reason that your chicken breasts are always sat in a pool of blood in the bottom of the fridge no matter how many times you wrap cling film around them

 

[Phil]

So when the shower is used water sometimes seeps through the gap between the lino and the wall on the other side of the room?

Its hard to imagine without pics but are there any waste pipe behind there? eg/ stud wall?