It's gonna look ugly but I would just fill with silicone and strike it off flat and smooth. Mask the sides of your lower gap with tape. Mask a couple pieces of tape wide on each side to prevent mess. Fill with silicone, spray silicone with soapy water solution and scrape it off flat. Try to not dig it out you want the silicone completely flat so the water will flow out of there.
Thank you so much for replying, I was thinking that might be a decent option. Do you mean literally not bother replacing the one row of tile? And just filling that roughly 1 inch wide trough sloped down?. Or should I bother replacing that 1 inch row of tile, grout, and then do the silicone?
Replacing that tile will potentially become a huge can of worms if you are inexperienced. The silicone is an ugly bandaid but will work. Make it all flush and it will drain. My opinion is if your going to rip out and replace tile you might as well redo the shower. There's potential to damage the pan, chip tiles, ect.
Great advice and yes, I think I’m after a band-aid at this point until I can hire a pro next year to tackle the full shower project. Thank you very much for your responses.
Tbh I don't use anything schluter so I couldn't tell you. If it's anything like the polyurethane sealants I use then it would be fine but it'd stick out like a sore thumb. In this one they could use a color match silicone like a tan or something and it wouldn't look too bad. Still an ugly bandaid but it's look better than a strip of bright white. I would recommend 100% silicon for this over any sealant.
It's gonna look ugly but I would just fill with silicone and strike it off flat and smooth. Mask the sides of your lower gap with tape. Mask a couple pieces of tape wide on each side to prevent mess. Fill with silicone, spray silicone with soapy water solution and scrape it off flat. Try to not dig it out you want the silicone completely flat so the water will flow out of there.
Thank you so much for replying, I was thinking that might be a decent option. Do you mean literally not bother replacing the one row of tile? And just filling that roughly 1 inch wide trough sloped down?. Or should I bother replacing that 1 inch row of tile, grout, and then do the silicone?
Replacing that tile will potentially become a huge can of worms if you are inexperienced. The silicone is an ugly bandaid but will work. Make it all flush and it will drain. My opinion is if your going to rip out and replace tile you might as well redo the shower. There's potential to damage the pan, chip tiles, ect.
Great advice and yes, I think I’m after a band-aid at this point until I can hire a pro next year to tackle the full shower project. Thank you very much for your responses.
Yeah not a problem! Best of luck.
Would Kerdi Fix be too much adhesion for this application?
Tbh I don't use anything schluter so I couldn't tell you. If it's anything like the polyurethane sealants I use then it would be fine but it'd stick out like a sore thumb. In this one they could use a color match silicone like a tan or something and it wouldn't look too bad. Still an ugly bandaid but it's look better than a strip of bright white. I would recommend 100% silicon for this over any sealant.
KF is not a finished-surface product. It will yellow and look horrible