Not long ago, I left Hong Kong and began my long-lost trip. On the day I arrived at my destination, I saw my roommate take photos of the floor tiles in the living room at home and send them to the group. I clicked on it and saw that the floor tiles were smooth and clean. I thought that my roommate was really diligent, and after cleaning the living room, I showed off the fruits of my labor. As a result, the next sentence sent by the roommate was: "As soon as you leave, the floor tiles suddenly."
I was so shocked that I immediately opened the picture and looked at it in larger - sure enough, from another angle, I could see that the entire two rows of floor tiles in the living room were loose, and then they were cocked to form an arch bridge. So, as soon as the trip was over, I went straight from the airport to my home.
Since it was night, I didn't turn on the living room light. Dragging the suitcase through the glimmer of my phone, only to find that the suitcase went through a slope in the living room, I thought to myself, huh?? I immediately turned on the living room headlight, and sure enough, two rows of tiles were upturned in unison, and it was scary to walk on it. After all, the floor tiles are not strong enough to be trampled and walked.
The case of the tile being cocked
No way, we immediately contacted the property management office of the community. The management office responded positively, but their action was limited to sending a staff member to come up and pat the upturned floor tiles in the house, saying, "Go back and report to the above." When we asked when the management office would send someone to repair the floor tiles, they started tai chi. After a while, he said: "We can only report to the above now, and the specific repair plan we said does not count"; After a while, he said: "Actually, you should go to the developer to repair it, because this is a historical problem when the developer built the house..." So we believed it and ran to ask the developer, and the developer gently and skillfully kicked the ball back to the property. The rhetoric of both of them is really new and endless, so that the dialogue of mutual ripping and prevarication repeats several rounds a day. But in the final analysis, it is all the attitude of "refuse to be responsible, please ask someone to repair it yourself".
We searched Google and found that other neighborhoods of this developer had started to have this problem repeatedly a few years ago. And just like us, the attitude of developers and properties after problems is to avoid and ignore them. No way, we told the landlord that the raised floor tiles were definitely not a problem we used, it was that the quality of the building built by the developer was too poor. If both of them refuse to repair, it is not a matter of long delay, it is better to hire someone to repair. The landlord said yes, the cost is customary, the tenant and the landlord each bear half of the cost.
Because when we signed the contract that year, in order to talk about a lower rent than the market price, we and the owner promised that the repair and replacement costs of the damaged facilities at home would be half for both parties, and the owner agreed. In the past, the failure of home appliances did have a certain relationship with our frequent use. However, the current floor tiles are not our problem, it is caused by the developers themselves cutting corners. And before that, at most a washing machine was changed, and we and the owner each bore 1500 yuan. Evenly distributed per person is a few hundred yuan, which is still within the acceptable range. This time, we asked several repair shops in advance, as well as the maintenance masters who helped before, and also inquired about the repair quotation on the mobile app. All of them are over 18,000 Hong Kong dollars. Hearing these quotes, we were deeply helpless.
Finally, the kind neighbor told us that this happened to their family a few years ago. Finally, I found a district councilor, local media exposure, and negotiated with the developer for more than half a year before re-pasting all the floor tiles. Such a consumption of time and energy cannot be borne by us as port drifters. Moreover, unlike the neighbors who themselves are owners, they naturally have this energy and necessity to get things done; The owner of our house does not live in Hong Kong permanently, and he originally bought the house for investment purposes and rented it out to us. He himself is not concerned about the maintenance matter, and will not rush the developer. To sum up, we decided, on our own, to fix the floor tiles. One is to facilitate life, and the other is to return the house to the owner intact if you withdraw the lease in the future.
Just do it, let's go our separate ways. First of all, we need to disassemble these upturned tiles, then smooth the edges and edges, and then refit. Secondly, there are four floor tiles that have cracked, so you need to glue them together or buy new ones. At first, I went to the local household goods store "Nihon Town" to buy some tools such as putty knives and gloves. Later, we found out that the price of Taobao was one-fifth of that of Japantown, so we placed an order for tools from Taobao.
Construction tools
Here's our purchase list: tile adhesives, strong adhesives, putty knives, seams, cotton yarn site gloves, tile repairers and glaze repair pastes. It was full in the living room. Walking through the road feels like this is not a living room, but a construction site. We are migrant workers in the company during the day, and construction teams at night and on weekends.
Then we started working on restoring the floor tiles. First, the upturned floor tiles are carefully removed with a putty knife. After dismantling, all the surrounding areas of the floor tiles should be smoothed and shoveled, otherwise they will jam and cause the sticking to be unattached.
Subsequently, we remove old tile adhesive and foreign objects from the floor to ensure that these tiles and the floor are bonded more firmly and tightly. Next, we squeeze the floor tile glue onto the back of the tile and the floor, and then two people work together to stick the tile to the floor. After attaching, press the dumbbells and heavy objects at home on the tile to make it firmly glued and tight.
Finally, after the floor tile glue is completely dry, use adhesive to fill the gaps between the floor tiles to ensure that the ground is flat.
In this way, the four Hong Kong drifters studying economics and social sciences each performed their own duties, each had its own division of labor, and united and cooperated; It took a few nights to restore the floor tiles to their original state.
The tiles are finished
The four broken floor tiles were difficult to repair with repair agents and glaze repair paste. So we went to Mong Kok and bought four new floor tiles of similar color, 55 Hong Kong dollars a piece, and the shipping fee was 180 yuan, a total of 400 yuan. Thus, after all the tool fees and the cost of purchasing new floor tiles, we spent a total of 947.68 Hong Kong dollars. It is one-twentieth of the previous repair master's quotation.
Purchase list
We and the owner each have half, and in the end, each of us will share it equally for more than 100 yuan. Although the whole process was a bit tedious, we solved the problem by ourselves. It not only saves repair costs, but also increases our DIY experience. I'm also happy with the results: the floor tiles fit tightly. Although the new floor tiles were slightly different, we covered them with a carpet that Pinduoduo bought, and everything changed back to its former appearance.
Life in Hong Kong is such a coexistence of hard work and happiness, but life will never fail everyone who has worked hard and hard. We face all the difficulties and dangers in life, and hold hands and stand shoulder to shoulder in the process of overcoming suffering. #大湾区寻宝 #
(Author: Anson)
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