Mr. Dong, who lived in the northern part of the city, had to repair the surface waterproofing floors of his bathroom because of the flooding of the bathroom roof. He was astonished when less than 4 m2 of toilets had been “repaired” at a cost of $4680。
Summer is the period of greatest demand for domestic maintenance. When a small area of waterproofing costs thousands of dollars and a toilet seal requires 380 dollars, the repairing household calls “failible”。
How deep is the water for domestic repairs? In the case of waterproofing on the bathroom floor, for example, 5 ounces of waterproofing glue went to the high-pressure pump of the waterproof company, turning into 60 ounces of 148。
Cheap bulk waterproof glue is sold at high prices。
“unpricable” consumption
"my home is an old house for over 20 years." mr. Tung said that, since last summer, his bathroom had been waterproof, and that the neighbours downstairs had been looking for it when he had glued the bricks and corners of the toilet wall until the summer. The other day, the neighbours downstairs said that the roof of his bathroom was dripping again. At this point, mr. Tung went to his neighbour's house, looked at the toilet roof and found that water was dripping。
Mr. Dong, following last year's practice, approached the maintenance staff and glued the toilet and bath floors, but this time he did not stop the dripping downstairs. At this point, mr. Dong realized that there was a waterproofing problem in an old house for over 20 years。
Faced with three knocks from the downstairs neighbours, mr. Tung, who had no experience of waterproofing the bathroom floor, called over the internet for a waterproofing facility starting with “4008”. The following day, the company arranged for water guards to come in。
“i asked about the cost of waterproofing a bathroom less than 4 square metres on the telephone, and they said that no price could be offered without testing.” mr. Dong said that “in the absence of an offer, the maintenance staff came to my house with the equipment”
The maintenance staff carried out a simple test of mr. Tung's bath, toilet and face-basket sewers with specialized equipment, which took less than one minute before and after the examination, which was described as waterproofing of the concrete floor under the tiles. The maintenance staff also stated that there were two ways of treating waterproofness in the immediate future: by smashing all the toilet bricks into waterproofing and buying the floor bricks for re-engineering, but at the earliest for a half-month period; and by placing holes on the floor, putting high pressure on the waterproofing glue on the floor under the tiles and blocking the gap on the floor with waterproofing。
It is clear that it would be inappropriate to break the tiles and re-engineer them while mr. Tung wonders about the price of the glue, at which point the maintenance staff continued to say that “it is impossible to price them, depending on the amount”。
Less than 4 square meters of waterproofing
"how much waterproof glue can be injected on a floor less than 4 square metres?" in response to mr. Dong's inquiry, the maintenance staff said, “it's hard to say, two or three pounds, or ten pounds”
"how much is a pound of glue?" mr. Dong asked again, and the answer was "1 ounce of $148
On the one hand, it faced a high price of $148 per pound, on the other hand it faced a number of knocks from the downstairs neighbours, which resulted in mr. Tung and the maintenance staff finalizing a price of $130 per pound to drill in glue. The high-pressure accelerators began to be injected into the floor that morning with the sensation of the press。
It's 46 pounds missing from the barrel. Mr. Dong's head is covered for $4680. He had no idea that less than four square metres of toilet water could have cost so much。
The waterproofness that cost 4680 dollars is far from the desired waterproofness. Since then, the roof of the toilet downstairs has remained dripping. The renovation of the roof downstairs was dismantled, but dripping continued。
In the face of “indefensible” water, the “waterproofing company” then sent another group of people, saying that it was “blocking”. This time, however, the maintenance staff arrived “without blocking” and began to use instruments to detect leaks in the pipes inside the toilet walls. A test, water pipes are intact, but water is still dripping downstairs。
Another week later, the “waterproofing company” sent a third group of people, and this time the maintenance staff drilled holes at the top of the floor to seal the drop. For more than 10 days, mr. Tung will be informed of his encounter. He only learned from professional accounts that the maintenance staff had used their knowledge of waterproof construction to set up two consumption traps。
“it is advisable to check whether the pipes are leaking and then work directly without testing. “the second pit, according to mr. Tung, is that cheap waterproof glue is injected into the floor without standard by maintenance personnel `puzzling' the price”
"the price of a pound of waterproof glue is only $67,000, but they want $148." mr. Dong said that “waterproof maintenance is so deep that it is hard to imagine”
