Spent some money and got some new flooring for my bathroom and kitchen. Previously it was normal tiles with rather noticeable wear and tear. Didn’t do anything to it when we moved in last time due to lack of funds as it would cost quite a bit to hack and change them.
Well, we didn’t hack them off this time round as well. Just had some people come in to “glue” a layer of decorative flakes on top of the existing tiles.
First off some old pictures of the existing flooring of the bathroom and kitchen. Notice the stains which can’t seem to come off even with the all powerful “Easy Off BANG”.
Doesn’t look all that clean and eye pleasing ain’t it. So here comes the people from Xtoria Marketing with their gear and they start work.
Protected the cabinets with newspaper. Cleaned the floors.
A bucket of the decorative flakes. It’s like sand..
Put a layer of adhesive on the floors and spread the flakes.
Close up of the flakes before lacquering.
Some interesting custom clogs. Used when they are spreading a layer of hard lacquer over the flakes so they don’t have to step directly on the lacquer.
New shiny kitchen flooring.
Clean bathroom.
The whole process took about 6 hours. Most of the time was actually spent waiting for adhesive to dry and lacquer to dry. Basically we couldn’t use the toilet for the whole day and the earliest we could use the bathroom was midnight. Anyway it was fine since we went back to JB right after when they were done and once we were back the next day all was good.
The total damage? $1.8k for the 2 bathrooms and the kitchen. Not cheap, but less expensive and time saving compared to hacking and re-tilling. Did I mention we LOVE the results?
so this is the smooth type finishing or the rugged kind?
It’s slightly rough to touch.
Good good, not so slippery, save money on the floor mat which is difficult to maintain. The first picture shows the drainage (either washing machine or air-con) pipe, managed to hide it?
That’s the aircon drainage. Hmm, don’t really bother me that it’s there and it’s properly quite troublesome to conceal as well.
hi,
i wanna check if the overlay durable?
it seems pretty durable to me.
basically u can drag a chair over the overlay and it’ll not be affected.
it looks perfect to me and can see the person you get in did a great job.
Hi, Came across yr blog when i was searching for affordable flooring for my bathroom. Cannot afford to retile, though.
May I know the name of the product you used?
I’d like to find a company tat can do the same in KL.
I don’t really know the name of the product actually. My flooring was done by this company Xtoria Marketing Pte Ltd. So wouldn’t know if there’s a company that can do the same in KL.
Thanks, Justin, will contact them.
So, how’s the condition of the floor after one year? Any grouses or do you still love it?
Don’t really have much issues with the flooring. However just a few things to note.
1) bathroom flooring. still need to clean it often, if not will get slippery due to accumulation of dirt.
2) kitchen flooring. doing very well indeed, however hard to see dust and hair on it. haha
Other than that the floor is holding up really well.