ok noted will need to figure out how to do thanks.

What causes tiles to get detached from the wall? The tiles at my toilet (the side walls) are becoming loose, barely holding on to the wall.

poor workmanship.
the usual suspect :
1. there's paint on the wall and the fella just try to bond cement to the wall without removing the pain or the person remove the paint but only a bit.
2. not enough tile adhesive added to the cement

Nothing major, I suspect? Placed my hands on the tiles, does not seem to be wet - this should rule out plumbing issues

if plumbing issue you will see water coming out of the grout or the other side of the wall have paint peeling or "bubbling" of the paint.

My house came with 5' tiles and I wanted to add 3 more rows above in bathroom. The contractor chipped the wall a bit only and barely called it holes and the chips were quite far apart, even more than a tile size away at random. They did not even bother about the paint. However, now it is already 10 years and the tiles are all still intact.

I guess it is because now the tile are no more attached with cement but special mortar with adhesive. A section of floor tiling was also layered with another tile to create tile high elevation so that the water will not flow to dry section (name I called). the floor tile was just attached to the top of existing tile and they are still fine after 10 years

So, I guess your contractor was not doing good job or using wrong material or did not know about new material.

Hi guys,

Want a recommendation. I plan to make a sink table top for my bathroom, something along these lines:

https://www.pinterest.com/solidsurfacebat/m...-counter-sinks/

1st contractor quoted me for RM1500 just to do the table top, which made me think of doing it DIY.

Where can I get these table top , and what type of material is suitable? I'm thinking like granite/quartz, like kitchen table top, roughly about 3.5ft x 2ft. or so.

Or you guys have any contractor/supplier that can do this for me? Thanks. Location around Puchong.

This post has been edited by kambing007: Aug 6 2018, 09:53 AM

wow... RM1500 is expensive for me . I do not have any contact. BTW, you should state your location for others to help. If not they will recommend Thailand contractor

Also, would it be troublesome to add a drain line for sink underneath the current bathroom tiles. I'm guessing need to hack a row of tiles from sink towards the drain.

Cheaper option is to just run the pipes on the floor through the corners of the bathroom, until the drain.

Couldn't really believe adding a sink + 1 row of hacking is almost RM2000.

It will be along the wall. For the people who do this kind of job, it is not difficult. 6~8 hour job with break maybe? Run drainage on the bathroom floor? It is DIY job. Would be ugly. I can do within 1 hour

Yes. RM2k is expensive. With power tool, it is easily done. How many plumber have yo asked?

Currently just asked 1 plumber, and trying to procure the sink countertop. 3.5ft x 2ft countertop for the sink to rest on, best quote I receive is RM850. Will try to get a few other plumbers to come and quote

yeah, piping on bathroom floor will indeed be fugly.

Hey everyone, I hired a contractor to do minor renovation for my new home. I wanted a concrete table top with homogeneous tiles
for my kitchen. I told my contractor to skim the tile edges to make it into radius (fillet type). Below is the picture of tiles after
edge got skimmed. As you can see the there is major color difference between the original surface and skimmed surface. Skimmed surface looking rough faded. Anyone know why? It supposed to be a homogeneous tile. Please advice.


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It is just because the tiles are ground to shape with coarse disc. The tile need to be polished to bring the shine. It is the same like marble too

Thank you for the advice bro. I am going to show this video to my contractor. Hopefully he can do.

Hi all,

My maid wrongly used goodmaid on my tiles, now it is showing white spots.

I have tried using baking soda and vinegar but no use. Worst still the surface showing white spots with rougher than normal surface.

Anyone has any suggestion to fix this ? Of course no replacement of tiles for now.

Picture of goodmaid product.
Picture of tile.

I am doing some reno for my hall about 600sft. I plan to buy tiles myself, do the shop do delivery or any additional charges?
Thx

I am doing some reno for my hall about 600sft. I plan to buy tiles myself, do the shop do delivery or any additional charges?
Thx

Not sure if this is the right place to ask...but here goes.

I have some old drill holes to seal up for my bathroom wall ceramic tiles. Other than just using silicone, what else can be used/done to make the holes a lot less obvious?

Replace 1 single tile should be not much problem for DIY