Hi all, my workers told me they just can remove until this level. Is there any risk if we just paitong and stick new tiles on top of this?

You can see the photo below that there are still a lot of white tiles on the wall

Thanks in advanced

This post has been edited by PowerGadget: Mar 25 2024, 07:41 PM

1. The new tiles won't be firmly fixed if you stop at this level
2. Even I can hack to the bare wall - they're giving up too soon

Erm. Can hack till bare wall. Then can redo piping... a lot of people do this, but this will cause your wall to be like extra 2inches thick. and not sure if the tiles can adhere to the wall better since there is still old cement left.. best to hack out till you see red bricks or cement bricks IMO.

clearly you hired a wrong guy if they told you so. ask them berampus

Thanks for your advise, Stormer.lyn.

Seemed like my workers are not very good in doing this.

At the same time, I asked him to change the toilet seat placement but he told me cannot be done because this subsale old house was using Iron piping for the drainage pipes.

Thanks for your reply, bobowyc! I had bought him new pipes for him to do as well but just that he refused to remove all the existing tiles entirely due to it's very "sticky"

One more thing is about the toilet seat placement which currently using iron pipeline, wondering is it possible to replace those pipe if the toilet in the second floor?


Thanks for your reply anakkk.

Unfortunately was recommend by my friend and now only I found out he's incompetent.

1 word.

incompetent guy.

try to find other people to do the job...

don't proceed anymore with current one.

Oh.. Why he refuse? Did you discuss with him before hand? Or if its additional work? Did he quote the piping works also before he started work or was it after his work commenced? Sorry, you meant the WC 4" outlet? Usually can change if the person knows how to. lol. If he says it cant be changed then means either he is lazy or just inexperienced. If currently its iron pipe, cast iron actually, then you can only change partially, not the entire length to the manhole, that will cost a bomb to do, not advisable unless its leaking at various places. Also see how much he charges, if its very cheap, then thats what you will get. Usually for whole toilet replacement can cost around 8k++, all in, hack, remove, re-pipe, plaster, render, waterproof and tiling. Materials wont cost a lot, labor is expensive these days, IMO la.. lol