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Month: May 2025

The Invisible Crisis: When Water Seeps Through the Floors of Singapore’s Homes

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Korba Helmi

Toilet Waterproofing

Toilet waterproofing failures haunt the lives of thousands of Singaporeans living in both public housing flats and luxury condominiums, creating a hidden epidemic of property damage that disproportionately impacts the elderly and working-class families without resources for prompt remediation. Mdm Lim, a 72-year-old retiree living alone in a 40-year-old HDB flat in Toa Payoh, discovered this harsh reality when brownish water began seeping through her bathroom floor tiles, eventually spreading to her bedroom and triggering a respiratory infection that landed her in hospital for eight days.

When the Waters Rise: The Human Cost of Waterproofing Failure

For Singaporeans like Mdm Lim, failing waterproofing represents more than a maintenance inconvenience—it becomes a devastating financial and health crisis that exposes the vulnerability of those living on fixed incomes in ageing housing stock.

“The first sign was just a small dark patch near the toilet base,” Mdm Lim explains, sitting on a plastic chair in her sparsely furnished living room, the smell of …

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