Repairing a white brick effect wall tile

[Giraffe76]

Hi all

I have this wall tile thats cracked and need opinions on how to repair it as i cant replace it as its in the middle of the wall.

Any help would be appreciated

Kind regards Mark

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Easier to remove tile and replace with new one if you can get a matching tile. Carefully rake out the grout around the tile. Then once again very carefully, with a hammer and chisel or flat blade screwdriver break the tile up and ease the pieces off the wall. Remove any adhesive left behind tile with hammer and screwdriver/chisel, apply new adhesive, tile and regrout around tile - aiming to get a grout that matches the rest.

Poss plenty of videos on Youtube how to remove single tile. Keeping old tile and trying to fill the damage is never going to be pretty.

 

[noseall]

Hi all

I have this wall tile thats cracked and need opinions on how to repair it as i cant replace it as its in the middle of the wall.

Any help would be appreciated

Kind regards Mark

Drill a hole in the middle of the tile. Using say a plugging chisel or similar, peck away at the hole working outwards. The bits closest to the grout line will begin falling out. Go buy yourself a new white Metro tile and fix.

 

[evdamadiynot]

I use a blunt blade on the multi tool to rake out the grout then chop out the broken tile to renew it.
You could just chip out the broken bit and fill the hole with grout-depends on how fussy you are....

 

[noseall]

Easier to remove tile and replace with new one if you can get a matching tile. Carefully rake out the grout around the tile. Then once again very carefully, with a hammer and chisel or flat blade screwdriver break the tile up and ease the pieces off the wall. Remove any adhesive left behind tile with hammer and screwdriver/chisel, apply new adhesive, tile and regrout around tile - aiming to get a grout that matches the rest.

Poss plenty of videos on Youtube how to remove single tile. Keeping old tile and trying to fill the damage is never going to be pretty.

I use a blunt blade on the multi tool to rake out the grout then chop out the broken tile to renew it.
You could just chip out the broken bit and fill the hole with grout-depends on how fussy you are....

Removing the grout can be risky to the surrounding tiles, especially if there are placcy spacers in the corners. Destroying the tile from the centre out, takes the tension away from the joints and means that the unwanted material closest to the good tiles, just falls away.

 

[Highway Man]

Removing the grout can be risky to the surrounding tiles, especially if there are placcy spacers in the corners. Destroying the tile from the centre out, takes the tension away from the joints and means that the unwanted material closest to the good tiles, just falls away.

Rubbish, nothing risky about it the way it has been described to do. a multi tool would cut through any plastic spacer easily leaving no damage. taken plenty of tiles out by removing the grout first, once the grout line is cut there is no pressure on the surrounding tiles.

 

[evdamadiynot]

It depens on how good the grout is.
Sometimes its in there solid other times it fall away wirh little provocation.
I find a blunt multitool "scratches" the grout away as powder rather than in lumps which possibly do more damage.

 

[noseall]

It depens on how good the grout is.

There is always a risk of collateral damage when messing with the grout. Although those joints look wide, you only need twist the tool slightly and you have a problem. It sounds brutal, be removing the tension from within the tile is less risky.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Removing the grout can be risky to the surrounding tiles, especially if there are placcy spacers in the corners. Destroying the tile from the centre out, takes the tension away from the joints and means that the unwanted material closest to the good tiles, just falls away.

Yep, that's definitely another way of doing it.

 

[noseall]

Yep, that's definitely another way of doing it.

It's the way tilers do it. You won't see them faffing about with the grout.

 

[robinbanks]

If you struggle to find a match, is there a anywhere else in the room you can take a tile from and then hide the missing one (panelling, an appliance that never moves, maybe behind something already).
If you only find new ones that aren't quite a match you can look to move an existing one into the hole and replace the donor (from the less well observed place) with the new tile

 

[simplesteve]

As a tiler, I’m with Noseall on this one. Never ever run a multi tool blade or similar up the lines of a Metro or any other Ceramic tile. It’s fine to do if they’re Porcelain tiles, just not on soft and easy scratched and chipped Ceramics.
( That’s why many tilers, myself included, will only do a ‘re-grout’ when asked, if they’re Porcelain tiles)
Blunt screwdriver/chisel placed right in the centre, hit it just once, then work out from the centre pulling the bits out.

 

[noseall]

Rubbish, nothing risky about it the way it has been described to do. a multi tool would cut through any plastic spacer easily leaving no damage. taken plenty of tiles out by removing the grout first, once the grout line is cut there is no pressure on the surrounding tiles.

Stick to changing bulbs, Billy.

 

[Highway Man]

Stick to changing bulbs, Billy.

Will do. You keep painting those window sills.