Mud set tile repair

[Anonymous]

Just bought a 1930s colonial. Bathrooms are ceramic black and white tile on walls, basketweave pattern on the floor. Overall in decent shape, maybe about 10% with cracks.

We're interested in doing some tile repairs/replacements (I've heard Community Forklift stocks old tiles). Does anyone have experience with doing repair / repair / restoration? Can you recommend a contractor? We could also just reglaze wall tiles white, but I'm thinking it may be too blah.

[Anonymous]

I will let you know the first week of September. I just contracted to have about 20 tiles replaced. You lucked out with white and black tiles. We have pale yellow and had to special order them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will let you know the first week of September. I just contracted to have about 20 tiles replaced. You lucked out with white and black tiles. We have pale yellow and had to special order them.

Not OP, but please do let us know. Same problem here. I would be ever so grateful if you shared the name and phone of person doing replacement. I'm in NoVa, and have been looking for someone for a long time.

Thanks so much and good luck OP too.

[Anonymous]

OP- I have looked for a mud tile contractor. There must be someone who does this, as there remain homes with these bathrooms and furthermore, they seem to be making a bit of a comeback.

I'm still looking and will let you know if I hear of anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will let you know the first week of September. I just contracted to have about 20 tiles replaced. You lucked out with white and black tiles. We have pale yellow and had to special order them.

Not OP, but please do let us know. Same problem here. I would be ever so grateful if you shared the name and phone of person doing replacement. I'm in NoVa, and have been looking for someone for a long time.

Thanks so much and good luck OP too.

13:09 here I'm back with my update.

My bathroom tiles look amazing. I used Grout Genie. I had about 30 tiles replaced. It took them a few days, but I am so happy with the result. My bathroom is one of the yellow and black ones and the toughest part was matching the tile. The tiles are even and well set. I wound up special ordering from a tile shop in north arlington. The tile match is about as good as you can get considering the original tile was set in the 1940s.

I hated my bathroom and all the cracked tiles. The thought of putting $14k into a room that was 5x7 was just out of my budget. This repair was less than $2k. My new vanity arrives Saturday and the new floor goes in too. My mini bathroom update will cost under $4k and I'm so happy with it!

Good luck to others suffering through old bathrooms. Grout Genie gets my endorsement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will let you know the first week of September. I just contracted to have about 20 tiles replaced. You lucked out with white and black tiles. We have pale yellow and had to special order them.

Not OP, but please do let us know. Same problem here. I would be ever so grateful if you shared the name and phone of person doing replacement. I'm in NoVa, and have been looking for someone for a long time.

Thanks so much and good luck OP too.

13:09 here I'm back with my update.

My bathroom tiles look amazing. I used Grout Genie. I had about 30 tiles replaced. It took them a few days, but I am so happy with the result. My bathroom is one of the yellow and black ones and the toughest part was matching the tile. The tiles are even and well set. I wound up special ordering from a tile shop in north arlington. The tile match is about as good as you can get considering the original tile was set in the 1940s.

I hated my bathroom and all the cracked tiles. The thought of putting $14k into a room that was 5x7 was just out of my budget. This repair was less than $2k. My new vanity arrives Saturday and the new floor goes in too. My mini bathroom update will cost under $4k and I'm so happy with it!

Good luck to others suffering through old bathrooms. Grout Genie gets my endorsement.

That's awesome! So glad to hear. I'll totally get in touch. So you just found the matching tile and provided it to them - and they did all the work of removing and replacing?

[Anonymous]

ugh! they don't work in the district

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will let you know the first week of September. I just contracted to have about 20 tiles replaced. You lucked out with white and black tiles. We have pale yellow and had to special order them.

Not OP, but please do let us know. Same problem here. I would be ever so grateful if you shared the name and phone of person doing replacement. I'm in NoVa, and have been looking for someone for a long time.

Thanks so much and good luck OP too.

13:09 here I'm back with my update.

My bathroom tiles look amazing. I used Grout Genie. I had about 30 tiles replaced. It took them a few days, but I am so happy with the result. My bathroom is one of the yellow and black ones and the toughest part was matching the tile. The tiles are even and well set. I wound up special ordering from a tile shop in north arlington. The tile match is about as good as you can get considering the original tile was set in the 1940s.

I hated my bathroom and all the cracked tiles. The thought of putting $14k into a room that was 5x7 was just out of my budget. This repair was less than $2k. My new vanity arrives Saturday and the new floor goes in too. My mini bathroom update will cost under $4k and I'm so happy with it!

Good luck to others suffering through old bathrooms. Grout Genie gets my endorsement.

That's awesome! So glad to hear. I'll totally get in touch. So you just found the matching tile and provided it to them - and they did all the work of removing and replacing?

Yes, I provided the tile, they provided everything else and hauled everything away.

One note - I hadn't really anticipated how dusty it would be. I've lived through construction before so I should've known better. I didn't empty the vanity or the medicine cabinet and there's a good layer of dust in there.

[Anonymous]

Thanks much for getting back to us with your experience and the business used. I'm glad you had a good experience, and will keep them in mind for sure.