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How to replace a chipped bathroom tile?

We have a chipped tile on the floor of the shower and I’m wanting a little advice before we tackle it. My first question is: how urgent is it to address this? Is the exposed corner of the tile letting water through to whatever is underneath it?

My second question is: when repairing, I’m assuming we need to be careful of the waterproof membrane or layer beneath the tiles - so what’s the safest way to remove the tile and prepare the surface?

I may have a whole lot of wrong assumptions here so I’m looking forward to some advice from the community. Thanks!

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Jewelleryrescue

Hi @MatthewD

Firstly that chip wont leak water so no dramas there. Non urgent. Non urgent and can be wet all the time.

Repair option

I would use some araldite and color it off white using a little acrilic paint and repaint that petal shape neatly maybe mask the out line first.

Now once that araldite dry 24 hours. Mix and color some epoxy to match the gray and mask it and add it also masking grout lines.

How to mix paint match get acrilic craft paint and mix the colour on a plate untill you have a match then add it to glue.

Replace tile option.

Remove grout from around the tile using a multi tool only go 5mm deep.

Tap the damaged tile with a hammer until it shatters. Use hammer edge as a better to crack the tile.

So now remove pieces and finish cleaning where the tile came out.

Use the multitool at a angle and dig out some old tile glue not deep if you start seeing membrain stop.

Test tile in position when dug out if its sitting lower or even to other tiles your good to go and re glue tile in .

You will not need to dig deep just enough for a good smear of glue.

The dunlop below will glue it in for you.

But you will need to add some grey paint on a saucer to the dunlop to try match your grout color so you dont have to ny a big bag of grout. Or let it be white and it will self dirty in time to off white.

Dunlop 250g White Ready To Go Tile Adhesive And Grout I/N: 6650178

$13.58

Hope this helps guide your success.

MitchellMc

Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community @MatthewD. It's brilliant to have you join us, and many thanks for your question about replacing a tile.

@Jewelleryrescue has provided an excellent response, and I agree with the method suggested. The damage certainly isn't letting any more water through than what your grout would be, and that water is collected by your membrane and sent to the drain.

If you were to replace the tile, I'd encourage you to get a couple of quotes on the work. If you were to damage the membrane in the removal of the tile, the correct fix for that would be removing all the tiles on the floor of the bathroom at least and re-waterproofing it. You can't just repair damaged sections. That's a big risk to take on a D.I.Y. job.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mitchell

MatthewD

That’s really helpful, thanks so much for your advice @Jewelleryrescue and @MitchellMc

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