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

[pooldude]

hay pool dude any chance of posting pictures of progress and the finished job, it would be great to see, and you never know you might win the job of the month competition mate!!!!good luck with the job!

Thanks. Yeah that would be cool. :LOL:

I posted some pics above but will post some more in a sec. still draining the pool. some green water still in there...

 

[pooldude]

steps...

pump room. not tiling it but we are going to resurface it next week...

more pool...

 

[Max_Damage]

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

 

[basshunter]

hmm it looks like sicilian majolica,maybe try caltagirone

 

[Colour Republic]

hmm it looks like sicilian majolica,maybe try caltagirone

I see where you coming from with that, the first time i looked at it, it had a Sicilian feel, maybe it's the colours as well as the design.

You been to Caltagirone Basshunter? Half my family live not that far away in Palermo, beautiful place

 

[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.