In my previous post Cleaning apartments for rent, one of the apartments had the kitchen tiles falling off the edge of the kitchen worktop, both at the sink and also at the cooker hob.
Obviously this was because of the poor workmanship of cementing the tiles because there were places where the cement was not applied - causing hollow tiles.
At first I thought the job was as simple as buying some glue or cement and sticking the tiles back. However, J looked at it and thought that the existing patchy cement needed to be removed first before applying new cement, so this was a job beyond him.
Luckily, I had a contact for kitchen cabinets specialist, and I sent the above pictures to them to describe the problem. They responded that they can fix it, provided I had all the tile pieces. It turned out that some tiles, after they dropped off, were somehow missing as well :-(
Finally we went to look for the same type of tiles and found a piece by chance. It wasn't exactly the same, but it would do. After getting the tile, we arranged for the contractor to come replace the tiles, it took quite a few hours as the "sifu" was very patiently drilling away the old dried cement and cutting the tiles to the right size. I would post the finished pictures here but I had forgotten to take the picture.
Update: Posted the pictures here below:
I am relieved that this problem was fixed finally and the workmanship was good too.
Obviously this was because of the poor workmanship of cementing the tiles because there were places where the cement was not applied - causing hollow tiles.
At first I thought the job was as simple as buying some glue or cement and sticking the tiles back. However, J looked at it and thought that the existing patchy cement needed to be removed first before applying new cement, so this was a job beyond him.
Luckily, I had a contact for kitchen cabinets specialist, and I sent the above pictures to them to describe the problem. They responded that they can fix it, provided I had all the tile pieces. It turned out that some tiles, after they dropped off, were somehow missing as well :-(
Finally we went to look for the same type of tiles and found a piece by chance. It wasn't exactly the same, but it would do. After getting the tile, we arranged for the contractor to come replace the tiles, it took quite a few hours as the "sifu" was very patiently drilling away the old dried cement and cutting the tiles to the right size. I would post the finished pictures here but I had forgotten to take the picture.
Update: Posted the pictures here below:
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| The tile colour is slightly different but that is OK |
I am relieved that this problem was fixed finally and the workmanship was good too.
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