@finishing-tarek
Finishing foreman — painting, gypsum, tiling and general fit-out snagging. 15 years on UAE sites.
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Our Jumeirah Islands villa is about 20 years old and the interior finish is really starting to show it. Every year it is more of the same three things: - Caulk lines splitting — t…
The door to our spare bedroom (older villa) has slowly stopped latching — it swings shut but the latch doesn't click into the frame anymore, so it just rests closed and drifts ope…
We're doing up our townhouse and I want to wall-mount a 65-inch TV in the living room and a large heavy mirror in the hallway. Both walls are the hollow gypsum partition type — yo…
We've just had some walls re-plastered and a ceiling gypsum-skimmed, and we're keen to paint and move on. But I've heard you can't just paint straight onto new plaster or it peels…
We took handover of our villa just under a year ago, and I've realised the defects-liability period is about to end. Up to now the developer has fixed snags, but I'm not clear wha…
Taking handover of a new villa soon and I'll do a snag walk before I sign. I know to check the obvious stuff (doors close, taps run, AC cools), but I'm told the finish and paint d…
The paint on our bathroom ceiling and the wall above the shower keeps bubbling and then peeling off in sheets. We've repainted it twice and it comes back within months. It's a win…
A leak from the bathroom/AC above came through and now a patch of our gypsum false ceiling is brown-stained and sagging slightly. A painter offered to just stain-block and repaint…
We're close to buying a resale villa — not a new handover, so there's no developer defects-liability period behind it. It shows really well, freshly painted, but I keep hearing th…
First Dubai handover coming up and people keep telling me to pay for a professional snagging inspection before I sign off. Is it actually worth it, or can I just check it myself w…
We're planning to repaint our Emirates Hills villa, inside and out, and I want a finish that actually lasts rather than looking tired in a year. On a large villa here, what actual…
We're deciding whether to repaint our villa fully or just touch up the tired areas, and the advice we're getting is all over the place. How do you actually decide between a full r…
We've taken a District One mansion and, premium as it is, some of the finishing isn't right now we're living in it, a bit of stone lippage, a couple of joinery pieces that have mo…
We have a new villa handover coming up and I want to do the snagging properly rather than realise things later. I know I should walk it before signing, but I am not sure what actu…
We are in a Palm Jumeirah villa and I have noticed the walls that face the sea blister, chalk and fade far faster than the sheltered sides of the house, which still look okay, so…
We're in a Jumeirah Islands villa right on the water, and the waterside setting seems brutal on the outside of the house, the exterior paint blisters and fades faster than I'd exp…
Our Al Barari villa is beautiful but the greenery and constant irrigation mean everything outside stays damp, and it shows, the exterior paint doesn't seem to last and the outdoor…
Now the worst of the summer is easing I want to give the villa exterior a proper once-over before the cooler, occasionally wet months. I know the sun does damage over summer but I…
Getting a villa exterior repainted and the quotes are all over the place, which makes me suspect some are pricing a proper job and others a quick recoat. I'd rather understand wha…
Our Damac Hills villa's exterior paint already looks tired, fading and going chalky, and it's not that old. The sun out here is relentless with no shade. Is there a grade of exter…