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Filling Cracked Floor Tile

  • 26-10-2017 9:49am
    #1
    kf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭


    I recently had to remove a portion of a floor tile to facilitate a small job. As you can see from the picture attached, the area is quite small. I don't have a spare tile for it and can't find any near matches in the main stores.
    So my question is, are there any other solutions which I could use in order to fill in this area?
    I was thinking about white grout but this will no match the cream floor tiles and will not look great.
    Any other suggestions?


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  • #2
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,501 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    kf1 wrote: »
    I recently had to remove a portion of a floor tile to facilitate a small job. As you can see from the picture attached, the area is quite small. I don't have a spare tile for it and can't find any near matches in the main stores.
    So my question is, are there any other solutions which I could use in order to fill in this area?
    I was thinking about white grout but this will no match the cream floor tiles and will not look great.
    Any other suggestions?

    I cant image anything you can do to that which will make it look good.

    They look like fairly standard tiles. Nothing too special. You should be able to find a replacement somewhere.


  • #3
    Jim 77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭Jim 77


    You might find a similar tile but it's unlikely that you'll ever find a matching one and the difference will be noticeable. My suggestions are:

    -Replace the tile or part thereof with a similar tile then get an attractive mat or door mat and and cut it so that it goes around the recess and hides the repair.

    -If the room is a kitchen then the same tiles may go underneath your kitchen units. Lift a kitchen unit or pull out a dishwasher or WM and remove one or two tiles - removing tiles without breaking them is not easy (see Youtube). Use the removed tile for your repair and then replace the tile(s) underneath the kitchen unit (or DW or WM) with any old tile - nobody will see it.


  • #4
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    what part of the country are you in.

    you could cut all the way across at the reveal and fit a feature tile across the doorway.

    iv had good successes getting weird older tiles in Casey's tiles in cahir in tipp. they have a warehouse full of old tiles going back 20 years.


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