How to Repair Damaged or Broken Tiles

Floor tiles are often broken with various causes
 

The strength of tiles including vitrified tiles can also be cracked, broken or damaged for various reasons such as collisions with hard objects, resulting from pressure from below the tile itself or known as tile popping.


Various other causes such as temperature changes so that the tiles experience shrinkage season and not followed by adhesive or grout movement. Both of them can be cracked and broken so that the floor handle is released. For that it should wear waterproof layer.

Caring for the structure of the foundation of the building is very important and requires effort and thoroughness. Building structures have different characteristics and also how to care for them.



Floor is one part of the building that is often damaged. Cracks on floor tiles are also caused by uneven ceramic surfaces, while vitrified tiles and other tiles such as tiles are very hard. At the time the hollow part will cause damage until the tile will break.

Damaged or broken tiles not only damage the scene will also be dangerous and can hurt you if there is a sharp tile part that will scratch your legs until it hurt. Especially if you have the small children who are vulnerable to injury due to fractions of the tile.

For that damaged or broken floor tile then immediately you should fix it. You can do it yourself if you understand the workmanship, otherwise you should use professional services that are already accustomed to working on broken floor tiles repair.

If you do it yourself then things like this you need to pay attention

First you can paint for cracked ceramics but for non-textured tiles or plain tiles. This method will not repair the cracked ceramic but disguise the ceramic rift and will not be visible to the eye remotely. This method can be applied to cracks that are smooth and not prominent.
You can choose a paint with a color that matches the color of the ceramic. To try to apply paint on the ceramic crack with cotton. See the results after drying. Wipe the tiles with a damp cloth for a shiny tile.

Besides paint you can do by adding glaze fluid by filling the floor gap to prevent further damage. Clean the floor as a whole can be by sweeping or wiping the floor. You can wipe the tile floor slit. Make sure there is no dirt so the dirt will not stick on the glaze. Choose color of colorless liquid. Wait for the slit and floor to dry then apply it with a liquid glaze. Apply glaze with brush and focus on cracked ceramics.

The next way is to replace with a new tile. This happens when damage to your tiles are severe. The cracked or broken tiles were replaced with new ones.
The thing you need to consider is that the cracked ceramic had to have the same size as that cracked earlier.
Before replacing remove all the cracked tiles by solving them using a hammer. Before breaking it coated with a towel so that the broken tiles are not bounced.

Scrape all the adhesives under the tile and make sure the bottom of the tile is clean and flat. Use the adhesive on the floor and keep the tiles in the right position. Create a gap on the floor using a little cement or gypsum. Because the gap is so narrow you can use cotton or with a small knife. Wait until dry and use a little liquid glaze to look shiny.