@finishing-tarek
Finishing foreman — painting, gypsum, tiling and general fit-out snagging. 15 years on UAE sites.
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Trying to budget a full bathroom renovation for a Dubai apartment — strip out, re-tile, new fittings, maybe move a bit of plumbing. I have had wildly different quotes, from suspic…
A couple of the bathroom floor tiles have started to lift at the edges and one actually cracked and popped up. It is a rented apartment, so I want to understand what is happening…
There's a brown/yellow water stain on my bedroom ceiling near the AC. I want to repaint it but I've heard it'll just come back through. What's the right way to fix and repaint a c…
Every time I repaint, the same hairline cracks come back within months — usually near door corners and along ceiling joints. Filling and painting clearly isn't enough. How do I ac…
Planning a full apartment renovation (kitchen, two bathrooms, flooring, paint). I keep getting vague timelines from contractors. What's a realistic schedule, and what order should…
Some of my floor tiles sound hollow when I walk on them, others sound solid. They're not cracked. Is a hollow-sounding tile a problem I need to fix, or is it normal?
My bathroom grout is cracking in places and going black/mouldy no matter how much I scrub. Is it enough to regrout, or do I need the whole bathroom re-tiled?
Planning to renovate a Dubai apartment — new kitchen, moving one non-structural partition, updated bathrooms. Do I actually need formal approval / a fit-out NOC for this, or is th…