310 shower wall

[Creek Jenkins]

Our shower wall has ripples in it and is not caulked tight to the shower pan- it’s not caulked at all. I’m thinking that water can travel up behind the wall. Even if I caulk it, I’m thinking the ripple would tear the caulking if you lean against it. This can’t be normal?
Cheers
Creek

 

[Nicholas/Tam]

Alliance will tell you the base of the shower walls are not calked as part of the manufacturing process. It allowed any moisture that may build/bead up behind the wall (in high humidity environment) to drain out to the base.
There is a lip on the pan that raises higher than the wall. However …. That being said …. The base of the doors should be silicone caulked. We had experienced water below the doors so we re-caulked all three corner tracks as well as the inner base of the metal door track. This fixed our situation. be sure not to seal up the drain holes on the track allowing water to drain back into the shower base / pan.
Hope this helps 🙂

 

[2 Allies]

Nicholas/Tam is right. There is no caulking at the bottom of the panel where it meets the pan and there is a lip that prevents water intrusion. The adhesive that holds it to the wall has released a bit causing the wall detachment. Ours has one spot like this but has not caused an issue. I think they have started using the one piece Encore units on some models.

 

[Creek Jenkins]

Yikes that’s seems insane to leave it unsealed! If they switch to a one piece unit wouldn’t that have a humidity problem as well? Where would that drain to? The loose wall panel really bugs me - there is a quarter inch gap along the bottom of the wall for a foot or so. Water/ steam / humidity is going to travel up into the inter wall area.
Cheers
Creek

 

[Lantley]

You have to consider this is not a house but an RV. Everything needs to be flexible and able to move around to some degree.
The walls and the floor certainly move and flex at different intervals as the uniavels down the road. Not sealing them allows them more ability to flex. While not perfect the lip goes up behind the wall and keeps the water in. For the most part the current system works.
Flexing is a bigger issue than humidity.
A one piece unit would have to be installed in the unit early in the assembly process otherwise it would not fit in the doorways.
Installing a full 1- piece stall early presents other challenges like keeping the unit safe and damage free! How well does the 1 piece unit flex when the unit bounces down the highway?
What happens when that 1-piece unit gets damaged after walls and doorways are in? The RV industry has enough struggles delivering
a problem free unit without adding 1 piece shower stalls to the mix.

 

[Terri&KevinGates]

Yikes that’s seems insane to leave it unsealed! If they switch to a one piece unit wouldn’t that have a humidity problem as well? Where would that drain to? The loose wall panel really bugs me - there is a quarter inch gap along the bottom of the wall for a foot or so. Water/ steam / humidity is going to travel up into the inter wall area.
Cheers
Creek

Alliances solution for the loose panel is to drill holes and use body panel retaining pins to hold it in place. They sent us a bag full of white ones when we complained about ours.

 

[Creek Jenkins]

Thank you for that information, I will contact Alliance. It’s not the best solution but I think I could live with it. Did it work out for you?
Cheers
Creek

 

[Terri&KevinGates]

Thank you for that information, I will contact Alliance. It’s not the best solution but I think I could live with it. Did it work out for you?
Cheers
Creek

We decided that we would just live with the wrinkles. We did use some to plug the screw holes when we took the glass doors out and put in a shower curtain. My wife hated trying to clean those doors and the track.

 

[Midnight Rider]

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We decided that we would just live with the wrinkles. We did use some to plug the screw holes when we took the glass doors out and put in a shower curtain. My wife hated trying to clean those doors and the track.

How well does the shower curtain work? Seems it may be a bigger mess?

 

[Terri&KevinGates]

The curtain worked out well. The only thing we had to do was get shower curtain weights for the bottom. The vacuum from the exhaust fan tended to pull it in towards you when showering.

 

[2 Allies]

May wan to consider a Nautilus retractable if you want to get rid of the glass doors and do not want a curtain. Light weight and works well. We had one in our previous rig.