How To Tile, Advice & All the questions I asked when i joined

[Olz]

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Replacing a Damaged / Broken Tile

Obviously there are a few ways to go about this, this is how I go about it.

For safety wear goggles and gloves.

Start off by scraping the grout from the sides of the tile in question, use a grout rake, or a fein or similar, the drill 4 holes in the tile, in a square formation.

Use a hammer to crack the tile, gently, no need to go mad with the hammer, remember your replacing a damaged tile not trying to make the good tiles match the damaged one.

Hopefully you will now have 4 pieces, assuming the tile had not lifted already, chisel out the pieces, start in the middle working outwards minimising the risk of damage to surrounding tiles.

Once youve got the bits out, get rid of the adhesive that was behind the tile, being carefull not to take chunks out of the substrate.

Depending on the size of the tile, you may not be able to get the trowel in to apply fresh adhesive to the wall, if this is the case, back butter the new tile, replace, allow to set and regrout.

Oli

 

[pjtiler]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

whens the paperback coming out:hurray:

 

[Olz]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

One day i'll stick the 'bible' on ebay, i should just about cover the £3 i paid for the note pad, I'll have to get past 5 pages of usefull info in it mind. :lol::lol:

 

[grumpygrouter]

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First time I have seen this thread Oli, well done mate.

 

[andy-p]

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good man oli !! :hurray:

 

[Olz]

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Thanks Fella's, I'm sure this is all bread and butter stuff for most of you, but as i've experienced (and still very much am) it's a huge learning curve and hopefully this will be helpfull for someone.

 

[Falcone]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

Great post Oli cheers mate.

still very much learning, lots of good advice here. thanks again

 

[Olz]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

A quick one before I go to bed,

Silicon Tip

Apply your bead of Silicon, having cut the nozzle at 45 degrees, when you've put the bead on, spray it with a weak washing up liquid and water mix, spray your Silicon smoothing tool or finger with the washing up liquid and water mix and smooth the Silicon bead using one smooth motion, leave the washing up liquid and water mix to dry away.

The washing up liquid and water mix should only me made weak, and will stop the Silicon sticking to your smoothing tool and finger making it easy to smooth over without it going all over the place.

 

[Spirit]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

You can also smooth Silicon with a Fugi, which requires no liquid or lubricant, therefore any Silicon scraped off can be reused elsewhere.

 

[Olz]

re: Tile Advice - All the questions I asked when i joined - Answered

Firefox wont find the plugin needed to view the link mate, what's a Fugi?

Nice siggy by the way mate, made me chuckle. :lol:

Edit: Found it on google mate, similar to the Karl Dahm shaping tool

 

[Spirit]

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Another LINKEY for those without Windows Media Player.

 

[Falcone]

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i have one of those kits. they're really good. give a really nice finish. highly recommended.

 

[Derry]

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great info oli, thanks for sharing and appreciated by many

 

[shane176]

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thanks for the info,
printed it off just in-case

 

[beanz]

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drill 4 holes in the tile, in a square formation.

Can you elaborate on this please Oli? I'm probably just dense, but i'm not 100% sure what you mean!?! Are these holes at the mid points, corners, edges, or doesn't it matter too much?

Great thread BTW, learning loads arlready!