Hi Everyone, my home is in Gelugor, Penang.

Recently, a whole bunch of tiles fell off one of the walls in my bathroom.

Can you please share your Penang contractor contacts to help me fix this? Greatly appreciate recommendations and phone numbers.

If have to, I'm OK with renovating all the tiles in the bathroom.

Thanks in advance, John

I just wanna share a very bad experience from century ceramics, in Jinjang.
I had to buy some tiles for kitchen counter top and porch.
Entered this shop cuz its the only one open on Sunday,and asked the guy specifically fr the tiles. Of coz i dunno what type
Suit where ma... But i told him, if white got for counter top means good lah.

Idiot recomended me porcelain tiles cz it was on clearance sale and white. Buta buta i buy, and contractor say npt suitable...

I called, dun get back moneh also nvm, at least change fr me lah.. Stupid sales guy froever nt in office, and the boss answer my call. Boss also lousy ..say i asked cheap tiles and didn't bother of the type... Wtf.

Scold also no use. Best way is to just share my exp.so no one kena con..

Oh and their quite pricy too... Bought the plastic tiling border for rm13..shop beside only selling fr rm7.



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U need to survey more one on this thg.
Don't rush to buy them unless very confirm.

found my tiles at wet kitchen crack, and go n knock it one by one then found out most of the tiles also got hollow sound...
picture taken after i ask the tiling guy to hack the tiles out to see..
from the picture, i can see gap between the cement and the wall, seem like the tiles is stick to the cement but cement not stick to the wall.....another picture show that the wall is smooth meaning the tiling guy didnt knock the wall 1st before lay the tiles.....

anyone knoe why this happening? is it my assumption correct? very hard when u wan them to admit is their fault.......

The tiles done by renovation contractor or developer?

renovation contractor...whole wall also sound hollow...i remember when they finish lay tiles i got knock it...no hollow sound...jus recently(feb until now) after i paid the full amount onli i realise got crack then knock again...all hollow sound...
now waiting their boss answer on how to solve the problem....

This post has been edited by dinor01: Jul 5 2013, 07:16 PM

If that was original wall was smooth plaster the contractor need to rough it. If it was build up new wall no need rough normally the tiler will lay on the brick, or the plastering will use rough surface.

Sometime they use susu to helps the tikes stick. Look like you may have to hack out the hollow part and redo.

weikee.. u r right..i oso notice onli new wall area dun hav hollow sound..but mostly my tiles was lay on smooth surface...meaning whole wall ned redo..faint..even table top surface oso got hollow sound..

This post has been edited by dinor01: Jul 5 2013, 07:46 PM

I nt sure wor....because i'm nt contractor...i knw a liitle through my house reno last time...the contractor told me geh...last time my car porch tiles all crack so ask my contractor fix it lo...so he told me geh...

Can I hv the contractor ctc ?

This post has been edited by Kiran Chouhan: Jul 5 2013, 10:23 PM

So how was the workmanship ? If ok, can I hv the ctc no?

susu or like this i guess.....

Are you from JB ?

When were the tiles put in? Got warranty or not? I was told by contractor that wall tiles falling off quite common after 5-7 years, due to air and humidity. Not sure if this is true or not, but it's what I was told. John

any tiling contractor contact can share? urgent needed. my current contract very irresponsible and i decided not to use him for my floor tiles installation. pm me if u guys have 1 to intro. location at balakong cheras

FEB intalled...its not falling off, its because i ask them to hack it out to see why got hollow sound..

Good evening all,

I am in a dilemma and would like some advise from all sifu-sifu and veterans...

I just received a quote from my contractor, and apparently from what i gather from this thread (i read like 30% of it) the prices for tiling for Chinese workers is roughly below RM5/sqft (please correct me if i am wrong)

I would like to share my quotation with all sifu and veteran, please comment about this quotation as i am baffled by the price he is quoting me.

(1) to supply labour for laying wall tiles (2' x 1') up to 10ft high; total about 410sqft = RM4,100 (about RM10/sqft)
(2) to supply labour for laying floor tiles (2' x 2'); total about 168sqft = RM2,520 (about RM15/sqft)
(3) to supply labour for laying car porch tiles (2' x 1'); total about 550sqft = RM3,600 (about RM6.60/sqft)

I did a backwards calculation against my because he quoted me a lump sum price.

According to him, this price includes all materials excluding tiles, and the work is done by a chinese sifu.

Please advise as the pricing is baffling..

Thank you all in advance for your advise.


This post has been edited by troten aka hideto: Jul 8 2013, 11:44 PM

As it was explained to me, hollow sound is due to the wear and tear of plaster/cement holding the tiles. If installed in Feb, I would think your tiles shouldn't sound hollow when you knock them. Best to get your tiles checked by another contractor, because the last thing you want is a tile falling off suddenly and injuring you or your loved one. John

got include tiles?

Hi bro,

Unfortunately it does not include tiles..