Hi all. My 8-9 years old house already have leak at the toilet. It's affecting the opposite side of the wall.

The contractor gave us 2 suggestion.

1. Just do external piping. Easy. - wife don't want

2. Hack the tiles to try to find the leak. Problem is i contacted the tiles supplier they don't produce those tiles anymore. So it will be weird if I use a different tiles on some spot.

You guys face this situation before?

Are there any smarter way to do it? Or maybe different tiles design solution?

Thanks.

hacking happens on the floor or wall? if on the floor luckily i used common tiles color like brown. Hence i hacked and replace it with nearest pallette of color

Likely on the wall. Damn sien. Stupid contractor never change all the old pipe for me last time when I did the MAJOR renovation.

So now scratching my head how to do it creatively.

External pipe use copper or chrine

Yeah the easiest is external. If I do that I plan to use stainless steel for lor.

But wife very hesitant.

To me either one will be ugly. Unless we have a creative way on the hacking and using some clever design on the tiles.

change the whole spot to same tiles lo

Whole spot is whole wall jor lor. Lol. So 3 side looks the same, one side looks different.

then change all 4 sides....lel

just replace that repair spot to similar color tiles can already la...just eye sore a bit at the begining, later will get used to it.

This post has been edited by BOTAK_WAI: Oct 21 2025, 01:14 PM

Lol. Out of the question lor. . 3 toilet lehhh..

eye sore all together...haha

instead of hacking the tiles 1 by 1 to find the leak, find those more professional 1 using tools to listen and check leaking.



This post has been edited by BOTAK_WAI: Oct 21 2025, 01:21 PM

u already have your answer.

the real question is "how to convince my wife to do external?"

i have similar problem; i hack the other side of wall, can see the leak at elbow fitting; now thinking how to solve

water leaks always happens at fittings; elbows, T- joint

If you can still find be tiles ok la.

Mine confirm discontinue jor.

if your external facade is painted wall then I don't see a issue with external pipe. just paint it the same color as the wall or do a whole house repainting after the pipe is installed.

Possible to salvage the tiles and rearrange in pattern, and fill the gaps with new ones?

how much are you looking at if you were to redo the tiles after hacking? assuming similar design (with wifey's consent)

external is easy, but cleaning is a pain from what I've seen at my parents.

No choice. we cannot trust the contractors all the time. when u did the major renovation, suppose to change all the pipes and tile it. Dont they keep any spare tiles ? after having this issues, i usually keep few pieces of spare tiles as well.

it all boils down to $$.. what is your budget?.. looking at worst case all 3 bathrooms, one whole side has to change...
best case 1 bathroom..still 1 complete side..

must tiles? can try other option? like epoxy, trend r going to epoxy now.

Me thought new toilet design... misleading