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This year all the water supply pipes were replaced in the building where our condo is located as a preventive measure.
The walls of our bathroom and kitchen had to be opened to get the pipes replaced, leaving us with some renovation work.
Initially, it was planned that hired companies come to our place, open the walls, do their stuff, get everything like it was before and then leave after about 2 weeks. As it turned out, 6 weeks after the work was started, there were still holes in the wall and whatever was done did not meet our expectations. So after the walls were closed, we told the house manager that we would take care of the remaining renovation as we have had enough of not being the owners of our own condo for 6 weeks.
We had to completely redo our bathroom due to too many missing tiles (which were about 20-30 years old). Even with the tiles being that old, they still looked pretty much contemporary. Unfortunately, the tiles were not available any more in the dimensions needed, so we covered the entire bathroom with special plaster which can be put on tile work.
This instructable covers the missing tile in our kitchen, though.
We bought our condo approximately 9 years ago and decided to go with a mosaic style tile backsplash for the kitchen.
We still had some of that tile stored in the basement and thought we could just replace whatever is needed once the hole in the wall was closed.
So we put the 30x30 cm tiles we still had on the wall until we came to the point to add the edging.
It turned out we still had enough tiles to get the most upper rim together, but exactly one tile was missing. After some research we found out that the manufacturer of this sort of tiles doesn’t produce the needed tiles anymore.
My wife’s first idea was to create our own mosaic for the missing tile out of similar colored other tiles. But with the color not being too similar to the original, we never could get ourselves to really face the challenge. Also, if we would have used broken tile for remodelling the mosaic, the pattern would never have looked identical to the surrounding tile work and it most likely would have left sharp edges.
So I came up with the idea of a fake or laminate tile which is described in this instructable.
Pooh. What a long introduction. I hope the title was interesting enough to keep you reading so long.
The walls of our bathroom and kitchen had to be opened to get the pipes replaced, leaving us with some renovation work.
Initially, it was planned that hired companies come to our place, open the walls, do their stuff, get everything like it was before and then leave after about 2 weeks. As it turned out, 6 weeks after the work was started, there were still holes in the wall and whatever was done did not meet our expectations. So after the walls were closed, we told the house manager that we would take care of the remaining renovation as we have had enough of not being the owners of our own condo for 6 weeks.
We had to completely redo our bathroom due to too many missing tiles (which were about 20-30 years old). Even with the tiles being that old, they still looked pretty much contemporary. Unfortunately, the tiles were not available any more in the dimensions needed, so we covered the entire bathroom with special plaster which can be put on tile work.
This instructable covers the missing tile in our kitchen, though.
We bought our condo approximately 9 years ago and decided to go with a mosaic style tile backsplash for the kitchen.
We still had some of that tile stored in the basement and thought we could just replace whatever is needed once the hole in the wall was closed.
So we put the 30x30 cm tiles we still had on the wall until we came to the point to add the edging.
It turned out we still had enough tiles to get the most upper rim together, but exactly one tile was missing. After some research we found out that the manufacturer of this sort of tiles doesn’t produce the needed tiles anymore.
My wife’s first idea was to create our own mosaic for the missing tile out of similar colored other tiles. But with the color not being too similar to the original, we never could get ourselves to really face the challenge. Also, if we would have used broken tile for remodelling the mosaic, the pattern would never have looked identical to the surrounding tile work and it most likely would have left sharp edges.
So I came up with the idea of a fake or laminate tile which is described in this instructable.
Pooh. What a long introduction. I hope the title was interesting enough to keep you reading so long.
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Signing UpStep 1Needed parts and tools
- Camera
- Tripod
- Color printer (preferably a laser color printer)
- Self adhesive laminating sheet (or wide scotch tape or clear varnish) for waterproofing the tile replacement
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Thin wooden board (2-5 mm)
- Saw (preferably something like a bandsaw to get straight cuts)
- Silicone caulk
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Thank you
But compared to any other solution despite an original replacement tile, I'm still totally satisfied by the outcome.
Thanks for posting this.
But well, they knew about the missing tile before I replaced it. And actually, I think stuff that's posted on instructables is mostly something one can be proud of.
It took us about 6 months to tackle the challenge as it was clear to us that remodelling the mosaic from other tiles would not look as good as what we finally came up with.