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Hello everyone! My first post here. I need help.
I recently moved to Macau, in China and engaged on a quest to completely refurbish my apartment. Things have been going smoothly until I began removing tiles in the ex-kitchen...
Those stubborn '80s Chinese tiles are extremely difficult to remove. Majority of them (and glue) have to be pulverized with a Boschhammer into a toxic azbestos powder, otherwise they will not let go.
This alone would be OK, but the problem is that the wall underneath looks horrible after such action, the reddish "plaster" is holding very well, but the texture is a battlefield like, after the hacked tiles took some plaster with them. In some places brickwork is exposed. Is it possible to fix it?
Or I also will need to scrub the plaster? Ideally I wouldn't want to do that - I don't want to destroy the brickwork as on the other side there is an angry Kung-Fu fighting neighbour.
Here is how it looks like:
I most likely want to install cement boards on those walls and ceiling. Can I just cover this mess with boards? How? It's tropical climate and humid here.
The floor has a similar problem - after removing the tiles, in some places the holes are 5cm deep. How to even it out without building up height? Here is floor photo. Floor looks like some cement with sand rather than concrete. I want to have here quality vinyl-plank flooring.
And this is how the room should all look like at the end:
Thank you all in advance for your kind replies.
I recently moved to Macau, in China and engaged on a quest to completely refurbish my apartment. Things have been going smoothly until I began removing tiles in the ex-kitchen...
Those stubborn '80s Chinese tiles are extremely difficult to remove. Majority of them (and glue) have to be pulverized with a Boschhammer into a toxic azbestos powder, otherwise they will not let go.
This alone would be OK, but the problem is that the wall underneath looks horrible after such action, the reddish "plaster" is holding very well, but the texture is a battlefield like, after the hacked tiles took some plaster with them. In some places brickwork is exposed. Is it possible to fix it?
Or I also will need to scrub the plaster? Ideally I wouldn't want to do that - I don't want to destroy the brickwork as on the other side there is an angry Kung-Fu fighting neighbour.
Here is how it looks like:
I most likely want to install cement boards on those walls and ceiling. Can I just cover this mess with boards? How? It's tropical climate and humid here.
The floor has a similar problem - after removing the tiles, in some places the holes are 5cm deep. How to even it out without building up height? Here is floor photo. Floor looks like some cement with sand rather than concrete. I want to have here quality vinyl-plank flooring.
And this is how the room should all look like at the end:
Thank you all in advance for your kind replies.
