I've been suggested by a contractor to lay tiles on the existing in the bathroom rather than to hack it. However another contractor of my relatives outside of KL has advised that doing that is risky esp for condos. The waterproofing for the first layer may be bad so if there's a seepage it will collect between the tiles and affect the floor below. Best always to hack through.

Some contractors have charged hacking and dismantling separately at about 500 per bathroom. All of mine have done this which means that psf tiling not inclusive of tiles was about rm9. Cheapest! I think the smaller your work, the more exp it will be as most contractors won't mobilise to work for less than 10k. I wish I had learnt home reno in school!

Does anyone have contacts for good tiles Sifus then? Appears I am either overcharged or quoted by non- experienced contractors!

Does it make sense to have plumbing companies do bathroom reno?

Biglove what's the size of ur bathroom?

Buying from a showroom in my experience is a bad one because they do not give good prices, have strict min order quantity and therefore charge even for delivery. Sometimes takes longer time to get the tiles

Yup I think there's a working relationship they need to maintain. Good idea to visit to get ideas and also rough costs. Bad idea to purchase straight without hunting around. Niro seems to encourage you to get tiles from them though but Guocera tries to hint that you should try to get from tiles shops.

I liked the tile shop in Taman Megah.