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Hi there, My fiancee and I recently purchased a ~20-year-old apartment in the East Coast, and we realize that there are quite a few tiles which sound hollow when they're tapped due to debonding/drying of the adhesive. See photos here uploaded. We've asked a few contractors to recommend whether or not we should hack and replace the wall and floor tiles in the affected rooms with new ones. So far, we've received mixed messages: some say that it's okay not to change them as long as you don't do any drilling on the affected wall. Other say that you should change them as they could pose a safety risk (popping out and potentially dropping on or tripping someone). Our question is: What are the pitfalls of leaving hollow tiles as they are? Thank you very much!
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My Kitchen was more than 30 years old without any renovation. Initially, wanted to redo my kitchen flooring because of waterproofing issue and can't wash my kitchen. We was advise by the contractor to redo the wall tiles. He simply get some hard object to knock on the tiles and told us it was hollow. How stupid of us to trust him and leave the key to the contractor without inspecting in between the work. The finish work was horrible. Over 30% of the wall tiles are hollow. He agree only to change those tiles that he said the hollow sound is obvious. We just wonder how he gauge obvious. As for the floor tiles. The water level was not done properly. After washing and sweeping water to the drainage hole, there are very obvious ponding over quite a number of areas after leaving the floor to dry up. Initially, the contractor argue that kitchen is not like bathroom, the level will not be as slope as the bathroom's floor. After showing him that the slope was at the wrong direction with a water level ruler, he change his argument saying that kitchen is not a wet area, no slope is required. Anyone has any advise? Should we accept the work? Thank you. -
Hi All, Not sure if anyone can advise us. We are in a bit of a dilemma here. We recently contracted an Interior Design Firm for our new 5rm HDB flat reno. After the tiles are laid, we realised that there are over 70 hollow tiles scattered at various parts of the house (of which 44 of them are over 30% hollow and at least 20 pieces of them are 80% hollow). Can anyone help and advice what we should do? Option 1: Let it be, maybe they won’t pop or crack so easilyOption 2: Spend another 10k and hack away and re-lay all the tiles of the entire house as it’s impossible to cut the 70 hollow tiles individually.Option3: Ask the ID to rectify the 70 hollow tiles – the concern we have is that we don’t have any confident that he can actually do the rectification as it was an horrible nightmare experience working with the contractor. Every work items he had done was wrong and in rectifying them, he spoiled other good items. Eg: he built a door frame that is slanted, he try to rectify, still slanted, only the third time it is ok; but by rectifying the door frame (he hit the wall so many times), my bedroom wall cracked in three areas. When he hacked away the HDB wall (with HDB approval), he hacked away 1/5 of the hdb structural beam along with the wall; he buried wired that he not even sure if its “live” or not under the tiles; he pour chunks of cement down the pipes and toilet bowl; built the sink pipes at the wrong place, etc.Option 4: Ask other ID firm to see who is kind enough to pick up the tab at a cost lower than hacking away and re-lay all the tilesAny kind homeowner or renovator can advise us on what to do? Many Thanks.
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Hi All, Not sure if anyone can advise us. We are in a bit of a dilemma here. We recently contracted an Interior Design Firm for our new 5rm HDB flat reno. After the tiles are laid, we realised that there are over 70 hollow tiles scattered at various parts of the house (of which 44 of them are over 30% hollow and at least 20 pieces of them are 80% hollow). Can anyone help and advice what we should do? Option 1: Let it be, maybe they won’t pop or crack so easilyOption 2: Spend another 10k and hack away and re-lay all the tiles of the entire house as it’s impossible to cut the 70 hollow tiles individually.Option3: Ask the ID to rectify the 70 hollow tiles – the concern we have is that we don’t have any confident that he can actually do the rectification as it was an horrible nightmare experience working with the contractor. Every work items he had done was wrong and in rectifying them, he spoiled other good items. Eg: he built a door frame that is slanted, he try to rectify, still slanted, only the third time it is ok; but by rectifying the door frame (he hit the wall so many times), my bedroom wall cracked in three areas. When he hacked away the HDB wall (with HDB approval), he hacked away 1/5 of the hdb structural beam along with the wall; he buried wired that he not even sure if its “live” or not under the tiles; he pour chunks of cement down the pipes and toilet bowl; built the sink pipes at the wrong place, etc.Option 4: Ask other ID firm to see who is kind enough to pick up the tab at a cost lower than hacking away and re-lay all the tilesAny kind homeowner or renovator can advise us on what to do? Many Thanks.
