Growing wet spot near bathtub edge
Water pools on the flat tub rim during use and pours over the sides onto the floor, creating a spreading damp area. Because standard tub designs lack proper sloping, water routinely escapes and requires immediate sealing or drainage fixes to prevent permanent subfloor damage.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1using a shower curtain
- 2changing direction of the shower head
- 3put something up there to block it
- 4put down a small bead of clear 100% silicone to act as a dam
- 5try a shower dam
- 6get a longer tub spout
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/Plumbing1 person · September 2026
Where this came up
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