How to repair chipped tiles
Cracked tiles are not only an eyesore, but they can be dangerous too. Here's how to fix it using a quick, easy and inexpensive chipped tile toolkit!
Article: Janice Anderssen
Accidents do happen ... children drop toys, pots fall in the kitchen, and as a popular flooring choice in many homes, a tiled floor is susceptible to chips from everyday use. If you have a tile floor in your home, chances are you will eventually find yourself needing to repair a chip.
You’ll need:
Mend a Tile Chipped Tile Repair Kit is the brain child of Heather Moskowitz and was designed out of a necessity to repair a tile in her own home. After searching high and low for a solution, she realised that there was a definite need for something that one could use to repair chips, without having to replace an entire tile - or even several.
• Each kit comes with everything you need, including a step-by-step instruction guide.
• The coloured fluid has been specially formulated to mix easily, dry quickly and is extremely durable.
• The standard size repair kit contains 10ml bottles, enough to repair over 100 medium-sized chips.
The repairing process is extremely simple:
1. Apply a blob of colour (white, red, yellow, blue and black) onto the mixing card. As the formula dries quickly - the larger the blob the longer you have to work with it.
2. Use a mixing stick to add small amounts of colour to each other until you have the desired shade for your tile/s. Once you have mastered the colour mixing, it literally takes a minute or two.
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