Must Check Homo Tiles For Hollowness?

[mint 0]

Found abt 8 pcs of completed homo tiles hollow at the 4 corners. And a lot of skirting are hollow - a complete stretch of 2-3 tiles is hollow.

Is this not acceptable? Or ok? Someone told me its dangerous if ceramic tiles are hollow, cos may pop out. But homo. tiles, its ok, not so bad.

So should I ask my ID to change? Or I just accept? IN the long run, any bad effects - eg. pop out?

Edited September 20, 2007 by mint

[lifestyle 0]

If the walking or common traffic area have hollowness better to fix it now else in the long run definitely will pop out and once pop out the corner & edge easily chip of. This is speaking from my experiences.

I would ask the ID to change. That's too many affected tiles for your place.

Found abt 8 pcs of completed homo tiles hollow at the 4 corners. And a lot of skirting are hollow - a complete stretch of 2-3 tiles is hollow.

Is this not acceptable? Or ok? Someone told me its dangerous if ceramic tiles are hollow, cos may pop out. But homo. tiles, its ok, not so bad.

So should I ask my ID to change? Or I just accept? IN the long run, any bad effects - eg. pop out?

[cherlyn 0]

If the walking or common traffic area have hollowness better to fix it now else in the long run definitely will pop out and once pop out the corner & edge easily chip of. This is speaking from my experiences.

I would ask the ID to change. That's too many affected tiles for your place.

how to check for hollowness??

mines homo tiles also...

[mint 0]

take a coin and knock. thats what i do.

out of my 600mm sq tile, only the four corners got hollowness. not the whole tile is hollow.

my id say this doesnt mean its hollow. he say if open up, u can still see cement spread below. but he says if u wan to change, we can change for u. but take note that the replaced tile may not be level with th surrounding.. maybe sink a little..

is it true? or just an excuse for us not to change it?

[mint 0]

A lot of my skirting sound hollow.. maybe this is why -- inside so little cement!

I ask: your worker use very little cement leh.. i saw it ..

ID: no lar, they cannot use too much cement, if use too much cement at the skirting, the tile will move sideways... so they always apply a little cement only.

ok.. i dunno true a not, cos im a layman mah..