jim 0 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 Hi, we are planning to lay new homogenous tiles for our living room. However, recents news reported that several HDB flats owners experienced that their homogenous tiles had popped. Reasons given: expansion/contraction due to temp changes. Is it still safe in laying homogenous tiles for our living room? or we have to use something thicker e.g. marble ? Thanks in advance for your adivse. Regards, Jim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
friends78 0 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 Hi, we are planning to lay new homogenous tiles for our living room. However, recents news reported that several HDB flats owners experienced that their homogenous tiles had popped. Reasons given: expansion/contraction due to temp changes. Is it still safe in laying homogenous tiles for our living room? or we have to use something thicker e.g. marble ? Thanks in advance for your adivse. Regards, Jim I think it's still safe to lay homogenous tiles. My previous Sengkang bto flat tiles popped before. When hdb came to redo the living room.. We saw a lot of empty gaps/holes on the cement flooring... I think they did not use enough cement while laying the tiles so resulted the popping. Hence, I think it's not the homogenous tiles issue rather is the workmanship and skill... Heng, hdb replaced it foc... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
endlssorrow 1 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 i read is @sengkang & punggol :s Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jim 0 Report post Posted February 9, 2011 i read is @sengkang & punggol :s Thanks for the reply guys! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites