Is there such a thing as a shower door track without weep holes.
Weep holes inside shower door.
These are indeed openings.
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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.
No one is going to convince me that a tile wall in a tub or shower needs weep holes like a brick veneer.
Shower pans and tubs sometimes have a lip built into the flange that collects water like a small gutter.
The lip will have an opening at corners and or ends to drain the water out and into the tub.
Those holes on the bottom are weep holes and must be left exposed.
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.
Out of sight out of mind.
I am re caulking my shower enclosure and i noticed that there are some slots along the bottom of the inside of my shower enclosure.
But you don t want to caulk over the weep holes inside the shower.
Home shower questions from visitors weep holes allow water to drain out of the shower frame and into the shower.
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These small drain holes at the bottom of the metal track inside the shower allow condensation and water to drain back into the shower.
I saw you through google and hoped you may be able to answer my question.
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.
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.
Shower door rail has openings inside the shower.
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.
Clogged drain holes framed shower doors usually have drain holes located along the bottom inside edge of the frame.
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.
When the weep openings are caulked over the water cannot get out so it collects and rots the inside of the wall.
Weep holes allow water to drain out of the shower frame and into the shower.
Weep holes allow water to drain out of the shower frame and into the shower.
The shower has never been used so we don t know if water would collect on the track.
