Ceramic Tile Repair Options
by robert on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | 25 Comments
Tim Carter, of AsktheBuilder.com, demonstrates a clever trick to repair a cracked ceramic floor tile.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Thank you so much for this! You saved my butt. Accidently cracked a tile in our kitchen table and had to rush to fix it.
great video! One question do u ever have any difficulty with the paint adhering to the epoxy? Thanx again this video really helped
thanks for the info. Had a cracked tile thats been out of style for years. Did the epoxy technique, it no longer rocks back and forth when i step on it. saved me from having to re-tile my whole hallway.
what’s the brand/product of epoxy you’re using? thanks
is there anyway to buy like a tile cover, will it look like the others once on or tacky? Thanks for sharing this.
I used Selleys wet area silicon on a couple of hairline cracks in the floor tiles of my shower – seems to be working ok, hard to tell but hopefully is keeping the water out. The other stuff I was thinking of is Sikaflex – great stuff but can be a trifle messy if not ussed to it – mineral turps based and comes in grey, white and black so far as I know.
Never used them. Try it and report back with your findings. Better yet, tape a video of the process, showing how you did it and the final results. After all, that’s what your channel here is all about – you sharing what you know with the world. We anxiously await your video!
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why not just use Selleys Wet Area Silicon Sealant or even antoher type of product ( the name escapes me ) that I used to use to fill cracks in concrete and asphalt
I would go with a paint that had lots of urethane in it like Sears Weatherbeater ULTRA or Sherwin Williams Duration.
If not oil-based, would latex work? Other recommendations? Thanks.
If you can find it. VOC laws are making it extinct.
What kind of paint do you use on the repaired crack–oil based?
an easy to to fix the crack is to buy nail polish that is the same colour as the tile this is a 1 step process and drys with an enamal finish
I happen to be an expert in both fields. The answer is simple. Take some colored grout – deep colors – and mix them up installing the grout on some scrap tile thinset on scrap cement board. Cure the grout well for 30 days as you would on a job. Then get some oxygen bleach and mix it up. Only place it on half the grouted tile boards. Let it soak for an hour. Rinse and let dry. Then get back with us here. I already know your answer: “Tim, you’re the man! Oxygen bleach is amazing!”
ok am 1000% wrong..
mate are you a professional builder or a cleaner ?
those materials aren’t made to be used with cement based products,You should only use products that are ph neutral and designed specifically for tile and grout..anything else would cause irreversible damage..
I hate to burst your bubble, but you are 1,000% wrong. The grout in this video was colored. I’ve used Oxygen Bleach on hundreds of colored-grout floors. It does NOT take out the color one bit.
mate this is only works with white tiles & white grout…you can’t put oxygenpowder on colored grout…
timesaver
I LOVE IT
another reason, my kness are bad and I dont have a lot of time.
hah its ironic I live and work here in jacksonville…we do tile and stone…mostly stone…
Thanks for the suggestions. I’m going to go buy some Oxygen Bleach to try to clean the grout in my counter tops
The rest of the video was informative as well.
There is another reason. I had some spare tiles but after twenty years the tile on the floor had faded just enough to stand out pretty badly — so your solution came instead.
Thanks for the tips I’ve added a lot of your handy tips videos to our Australian Group for property investors.
Dear Etherglide1965,
I agree with you, but keep in mind your idea may not always be possible. This video is also for the people who are not lucky enough to have a piece of scrap tile laying around. We both know that 98 percent of the time, there is no leftover tile. The builder/tile contractor always seem to throw extra tile away instead of leaving it behind for the homeowner.