Flooring and Tiles

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Finally the floor tile guy arrived and did something from today.  Tiles may arrived this week while the original team will come over the weekend to sort out things that are supposed to correct.  Paving ways for tile laying next week.

Here's the sitting room. The floor is raised and flattened with layer of rough cement.

Another view to show how thick the floor was raised.

Here's the kitchen floor.

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More cement works :

Car Porch ground work.

Sitting room is elevated by about 1-2 inches. Tiles will be laid on top.

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Upstair lobby is being cemented today.  That will allow Laminated Flooring in due course.

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Store Room flooring, ready for tiles.

Kitchen is now ready for further works.

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Wall socket before tiling.

After tiling, with meticulous precision cutting.

The toilet beside the kitchen has started been worked on as well.

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Kitchen wall tiles are slowly done.  Meanwhile...

Downstair toilet tiles are up too.. but more tiles are needed, so the tile supplier will provide more to finish it up.

Marble pieces to serve as solid platform for utilities in the bathroom.  It turns out to be cheaper, more solid, and to me, much more reliable than screwed onto the wall glass holder.  Solid is the word.

At the same time, while waiting for the extra tiles, the staff started their tiling work upstair at the common bathroom.

Some of them also started the 2x2 sitting room porcelain tile work.  Its from the NN tech acquired cheap from the Houz Depot, Damansara.  Quite a good value really.

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This long stretch of no blog entry is due to something for me to learn.

It is due entirely to late delivery of tiles.

From my experience, Guocera has one of the better looking budget tile selection to date, as compared to other local manufactured tiles.  But the problem is they do not hold much tiles at Klang Valley.  Most of them are actually stored in Johore.

Yes, you guess right.  JOHORE.

Which means, if you were to buy from the company, if unfortunately, they only stock it at Johore, you will have to wait for their delivery boy to deliver all the way from there.  Which also means, if you only order a small amount, you will have to wait till the volume increase by combining other buyer's order, before they contemplate delivery.

So when we try to order from them, make sure we order from stockist that keep the stock (more than what you would need, in case you need to buy more to cater for unforeseen usage such as damaged tiles at work etc), or avoid all together a company that has no stock near your house !!

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Today work resumes.  With all the tiles finally came in, the crew spring back to work, with a few spots all at the same time.

Sitting room 2x2 tiles, with old fashion skirting in place today.

Store room being worked on.  Since it is going to be just a storeroom anyway, I just asked the worker to source me an Al-cheapo 1x1ft tiles just for the sake of it.

Kitchen floor.  Now, with our original Meditteranean idea, various assortment of tiles of different shades but of the same theme was sourced.  This is the intended mix tiles idea.  The next picture will give a better idea of how it will look like.

Mixing tiles of various shade.  A total of three shades were used for the purpose.

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Sitting room is 98% done.

Another view of the sitting room.

This is the border between the dinning area and the kitchen.

A total of three different shades of tiles were used to make the random floor tile look. Some may like it, some may not.

Meanwhile the upstair common bathroom is being fixed gradually. Two marble sheets are used to become toilet racks.  Its old fashion, no doubt. But it works, and very tough.

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During the final week before the holiday season, the car porch flooring was 95% completed.

Good job as far as I am concern.  The remaining 5% will be completed once the gate railing is fitted in due course.

In the mean time, the kitchen tiles was also completed, while the table top is still pending.

The last bathroom, the masterbedroom bathroom, started the job as well, but it was left halfway until after the season.

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Now finally the whole series of Public Holidays are over (not that I complained).   The contractor finally fulfill what they have promised earlier, and back to complete their job.


Here's the update so far..

 

 The plastic ceiling finally being fixed in the bathrooms. Here's ground floor common bathroom.

  

 And here's common bathroom upstair. With another view from the same bathroom below.

  

  

In the meantime, both bathrooms upstair received its water insulation treatment on the floor to prevent future water leakage downwards.  Its only applied to the first floor bathroom.  Ground floor bathroom does not need the treatment.

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After laying down the base coating..

 

... and also in the other bathroom floor...

 

They use sheets of Glass Fibres and applied them onto the floor, fixed with glue..

Here's how they made it.

And here's the final bathroom waterproofing layer.  The fibreglass sheet was applied to about half a foot on the side wall as well. This layer is thick.  No short cut seen.  Really impressed with the work.

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Just to add this picture to show the quality of the work they rendered.  This is on the side panel of the outdoor porch tiles.  This segment of the tiles require cutting to make sure that the edge is of similar width.  So precision work is necessary.

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Its confirmed that the water seal is tight after a two-day water soaking test.  Today the tiling team came back and plaster a thick layer of cement to prepare for final tile's work.  Meanwhile the lowest layer of tile was being placed as shown below:

 

Meanwhile the master bedroom wall tiles resumes its activity today too.

 

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The car porch flooring has its final work began.  This part will correlate with the auto-gate railing.

At the same time, 3 pieces of the wall tiles were being hacked out (without any damage at all) to cater for another pieces of marble rack for the bathroom.  This is another hindsight adjustment.

Another upstair bathroom floor tiling received its finishing work.  The wall tile colour and the floor does not match that well, I admit.  But we still go ahead with it.

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Two layer of marble racks being placed, the lower rack was added in after correction.  Compared with the photo I added earlier.

New cement slab was added for aesthetic reason.

Side step outside the garden are being worked on. We need more small chip stones, so it is delayed for a day for now.

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current progress :

Washing area in the garden received its wall treatment.

Here is the common upstair toilet. Work is still in progress.

There is some progress also in the common sitting room.  The planned wall sound insulation layer (Rockwool) is being placed against the wall.  This will insulate the sound to protect the neighbour SHOULD we opt to blast the sound system !  But nothing will stop the sound from leaking through the windows, door etc.. Nonetheless I think this is the least I should do.

Here's the close-up view of the construction.

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Elevated stool was built to support small water Reservoir ala kampung style ! Yes we are still old-fashioned.

Completed sink support completed with tiles.

Garden structure receive its final coating.

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The Sitting room extension wire for the speakers finally arrived from the eBay seller.  It was finally installed above the plaster ceiling and to be hidden properly.  The Board was placed to cover the sound insulation rockwool fibre partition.  Note that this wall does not dampen the sound reflection.  Its just to reduce the sound from traveling across next door. Talk about responsible neighbourhood.

And this is the Monster cable, 16AWG, length at 35 feet for the surround speakers.  It was supposed to be THX rated.  But frankly no one can tell the difference at this length.

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The soundproof wall is being painted, all the wires are hidden.  With the latest Astro Byond and probably High speed broadband wiring still remained unknown, I do hope that this wall will not need to be hacked again.

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Laminated flooring guys finally came to do their job. It is best done at the end or near the end of all renovation to minimise damages to delicate surface.  It is rated as AC-3, with AC-5 as being the toughest. The company, from the Floor Culture , took up the job with reasonable price we got from the home deco exhibition last year.

It was used for the staircase as well.

Here's the foundation layer we opt that helps in water proofing and levelling.

Seems nice and smooth ..

Only to be removed the very next day !  The cement floor was not found to be smooth to give the seamless feel.  So after discussion with Ah Phan and Ah Boy, they asked the Tile Man Team, Ah Fook, to step in with their precision workers to take over the levelling of the ground.  So the room steps right back to its original mess again for a short period of time.  This is a correction work in progress.. and it has to be done !

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After the Tile Team put on a new cement layer to level the floor, the laminated flooring can be completed.

Here's the lobby, which was used to be a common toilet a year ago.

Here's the Master Bedroom.

At one corner, it was deliberately elevated to be used as activity centre for the family. Left door leads to the bathroom.

Finally Laminated flooring for the stair case as well.

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