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40mm hole in tile. No spare tile. How to fix?

  • 11-12-2013 8:19pm
    #1
    Danye
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    My parents replaced the shower in the bathroom recently and a hole about 40mm has been left in one of the tiles.

    Anybody have any idea about how to go about fixing it? It's within the perimeter of the shower tray so it's going to have to be water proof. I'm then, hopefully going to get tile paint as close to the original tile colour as possible and paint over it and hope that it won't look to bad.

    Anybody ever have to do anything like this before or has anybody have any advice?

    Thanks lads.


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  • #2
    hesker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,534 ✭✭✭hesker


    Remove the broken tile and replace with another. Then paint the whole tile. I've never used tile paint so not sure how good it will look.

    Or you could replace the whole row of tiles with a different tile colour and make it look like it was intended to be like that.

    Or just fill the hole like you would with a hole in plasterboard, topping off with waterproof grout. Then stick an ornamental starfish or something on it to hide the fix.


  • #3
    Sparkpea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Sparkpea


    replacing the tile would be better, only other option would be ct1 then paint it but wouldnt look a great job.....


  • #4
    Danye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Danye


    hesker wrote: »
    Remove the broken tile and replace with another. Then paint the whole tile. I've never used tile paint so not sure how good it will look.

    Bit of a biggish job than what I'm looking to do.
    hesker wrote: »
    Or you could replace the whole row of tiles with a different tile colour and make it look like it was intended to be like that.
    .

    Again it's a little bit more than what I was looking to do.
    hesker wrote: »
    Or just fill the hole like you would with a hole in plasterboard, topping off with waterproof grout. Then stick an ornamental starfish or something on it to hide the fix.
    .

    This would be more of my idea. Minus the starfish.

    Thanks for the suggestions.


  • #5
    Danye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Danye


    Sparkpea wrote: »
    replacing the tile would be better, only other option would be ct1 then paint it but wouldnt look a great job.....

    I know ideally replacing replacing the tile is the job but it's hard to find a match for that tile and it's a bigger job than what I'd like to undertake.

    What's ct1?


  • #6
    Sparkpea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Sparkpea


    its like silicone but alot stronger, also paintable like painters caulk

    +1 starfish


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  • #7
    Danye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Danye


    Sparkpea wrote: »
    its like silicone but alot stronger, also paintable like painters caulk

    +1 starfish

    Thanks. I'll check it out.

    -1 for the starfish.


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