Week 3: Screeding / Tiling

Earlier this week we managed to finish screeding of the floor and am really glad that the contractor did a very good attempt to get the floor as even as possible. It is difficult to manually screed an even flooring so we topped up extra for auto-leveling that will improve evenness of the screed. 

Step 4: Tiling works

It's the start of another exciting phase! We're really anxious at the same time to see how the tiling of the toilets would turn out since you can't really visualize your chosen tiles fully due to the variations of shade and veins that you may not notice on the sample displayed at the gallery.

A sneak preview of the common toilet below. We opted to go ahead with half-tiled walls for some surfaces to achieve a unique look + cost savings! We also got rose gold aluminium transition wall strips for a seamless transition. Got the sizes custom made off taobao and am really happy with them! It's tricky getting aesthetic materials over tb since it's difficult to see true colour in pictures.

For the MBR toilet which we spent the most time selecting tiles on, I was super anxious to see how the cut tiles look since we only saw them in 60cm x 60cm sizes at the gallery previously. We wanted a really dark grey - black stone-look tile in a long shape that allowed herringbone tiling. We also only opted for the herringbone to be done only on one side of the wall since labour is really tough and costly for the pattern to be possible. It was so difficult to get these tiles within budget and so we topped up a reasonable amount to cut an existing large tile to get these and we are so in love! The tiles look really dirty now but it's supposed to be rather clean with minimal variation and fully matte finish. Can't wait for the toilet to be put together!

Our ID was also really meticulous with the designs and did a drylay to ensure the tiles look fine before they go up the wall.

Goodbye kitchen tiles! I promise you wouldn't see any tiles HDB left us in our KRIB! We overlaid most tiles and screed over any other visible surfaces. HDB really don't provide pretty tiles but I just read an article that they will now provide larger and more aesthetically appealing tiles. Lucky new owners! Tiling is one expensive work and we spent close to 6k to overlay the 2 toilets criesss. Then again... we spent too much time in our toilets to not beautify them.