I'm looking for some hand painted pool tiles from Italy

[pooldude]

Find a suitable zircon white and a cobalt blue tile base. Then have the decoration screen printed onto the white tile and fired. This can be done in any tile decoration studio. Main thing is to find a suitable base tile for the pool. The design can be colour separted from the original design to give a prety good copy.
I used to do this at Maw & Co. for Victorian restorations.

Max

There's a local tile company that makes tiles as well. I'm going to see if they might be able to do this. good idea thanks!

 

[pooldude]

hmm it looks like sicilian majolica,maybe try caltagirone

the underneath looks a bit like clay. I should have taken a pic.

 

[basshunter]

yes colour i have connections in sicily too lol ....selinunte/castelvetrano... stayed in erice last time,the hand painting thing is alive and well there
Am more interested in pooldude giving me the nod to come and fix the tiles lol
Just as a side thought-do you guys think they are suitable for a pool?have they blown because of how they are made?

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

good point bass, but then again if they have been on that long!!!!!

 

[pooldude]

yes colour i have connections in sicily too lol ....selinunte/castelvetrano... stayed in erice last time,the hand painting thing is alive and well there
Am more interested in pooldude giving me the nod to come and fix the tiles lol
Just as a side thought-do you guys think they are suitable for a pool?have they blown because of how they are made?

The guys who used to service the pool didn't know the stabilizer level was too low and always shocked the pool with Calcium Hypochlorite which raised the Calcium Hardness level way too high. I found 2,600ppm in the pool. With a CH that high scaling happens and my guess is the scaling was the cause for the tiles to come off. So we decided to drain the pool and start working on the renovations.

 

[lucius]

Ide say that the tiles are a pretty standard pattern in Italy and possibly still available, they are very simmilar to Spanish tiles of simmilar pattern which are still made here but how you would go about finding them i dont know, is their an Italian tiling forum?
Lucius.

 

[pooldude]

Ide say that the tiles are a pretty standard pattern in Italy and possibly still available, they are very simmilar to Spanish tiles of simmilar pattern which are still made here but how you would go about finding them i dont know, is their an Italian tiling forum?
Lucius.

good idea thanks.