Do I caulk around bottom and edges of acrylic shower?

All right. Danielle is asking about a new shower unit. So we have a brand new bathroom post mold. Not wanting grout, we installed an acrylic surround shower. Perfect. They're not as pretty, but they're 100% more mold proof. There's so much debate on whether to use caulk for the wall and floor seams joints. Delta recommends not caulking so water can drain. Where would water be draining? In a place you want it at the floor or wall. You don't want any water draining at the floor or the wall. You want it in the acrylic, and at the edges, it needs to be caulked anyway. While half the contractors agree and the other half say to caulk, both have risks of mold developing in your experience, which gives the best chance of success if. If it's a floor joint, it needs caulked. Unless this is something I'm not thinking of. I'm just thinking, like, we have acrylic tubs and showers here and at the base of the tub and at all along the edge of your acrylic shower where it stops. Those absolutely need caulked or siliconed. Otherwise, if water gets in there, it's draining under your floor, it's draining behind your shower unit itself. So, yes, I would absolutely use caulking. And unless, like I said, unless you're talking about an instance I'm not thinking of. But the nice thing about the caulking is. Yes. Can it mold? Yes. If you have a lot of mold spores in your house and you're leaving water there, it won't mold if there's not a mold problem in the house. No. But worst case scenario, you can always cut caulk and replace a section if it's molding for some reason, if caulk keeps molding in the same spot, you likely have a mold problem behind it. So behind that acrylic shower in the wall, and then it keeps trying to work its way out and that section keeps molding. So if you see that there's probably a bigger problem, you can also use like hydrogen peroxide for cleaning that as well. But for your question of would I caulk it? Absolutely. Because to me, all I'm picturing is water going into the floor at the base of the of the tub or at the sides of the shower unit itself. So to me, it seems simple, but maybe there's something. Let me know, Shoot me an email if there's something different going on than what I'm thinking of. But to me, it seems obvious to caulk and protect that from moisture going back, even just the humidity of the bathroom and the showers unit. You don't want going into tight, dark places, right? So caulk it up.

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