How to repair a loose floor tile?

tangible99

Hi there,

I have a loose/hollow floor tile that can be lifted up just outside my front door. Any tips on how to repair this with minimal effort?

From what I can find online, my options are:

1) Find some sort of glue adhesive and spread it in-between the grooves; or

2) A more involved way would be to try to chisel off the grooves and add a cement based adhesive?

Any further advice would be very much appreciated.

Dave-1

Good morning @tangible99 

When good tiles go bad comes to mind. 😕 

I was just looking up how to remove tile adheasive... And I keep coming back to my first thought. A cold chisel and hammer. And work slowly. You could also use a concrete grinding disc . Concrete masonry discs to show you a range of them.

I would leave the tile as is and not try to remove the glue as I wouldnt want to crack the tile. (Unless you have spares?)

Once you have cleaned it back to the point that you think enough of the glue will be spread eveningly and sit flush with the other tiles use a product like dunlop 2kg wall and floor tile adhesive (You can prob find a smaller quantity 🙂 )

Id also like to say a hello and welcome to the Bunnings community 🙂 So many questions are answered and so mant interesting projects are posted in here. You will get distracted if you start wandering through the pages 🙂

Dave