How to replace and fix broken tiles in your Home.

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Does this look familiar. I love tile floors, But this is just a eye sore. So I'm going to go through the steps. So you can fix your own floor. And doesn't hurt your pocket to much.

I use a 5 way painters tool for the first step. Your going to take the sharp side and run it along the grout line on all 4 sides of the peace that your Trying to fix. Make sure that all the grout is all out of the joints. Up to the good once. You may want to yous a vacuum of some kind for clean up. It will get dusty on the floor. Now that we have that all done. We can take our 5 way tool and start to pry up on the bad tile. sometimes the just pop right out in one peace. Then Therese the hard way. If there really on there good. Use the sharp side down and take a hammer and smack the flat side. This will brake up the tile. so we can get it out of there. Now once the tile is out we can get started on removing the mortar. this is the cement that makes the tile stick to the floor. Using the same Tool SCRAPE all the mortar out of the space. Down to the hardy backer Bord. Make sure there is nothing left over. 'Clean good' with vacuum.

Now that's all done. We can go shopping. Ya ; ) So now were going to go to the local Hardware store and pick up a replacement tile, a little thing of grout. That match's  the color that you have. and some mortar. Were going to need a trawl with 1/4" notches and a nice size mixing tub and a Grout float. Tile  spacers, a sponge with a 5 gallon bucket of cool water. For the grout and cleaning up your tools.

Know that we have all ow er supplies.We can get started. Take some mortar and dump some into your tub (Remember we rather have more, Then not enough. So there might be a little wast.
  Take a paint stick and slowly st er in some water. Until its like smooth peanut butter. If it's to runny just add some more mortar powder to thicken it up. Take your trawl and start to fill in ow er space. Cover completely. With the notch trowel side down. You want it to look like the picture above. So now that we have that down you can put the tile in it's place.
 Put the spacers in as seen in pic. I use a rubber ma lot to Hammer all the air out of it. This gives less of a chance of happening again. now let dry over night ; )

Now that's Dry we can remove the spacers and start to mix ow er grout. Do the same thing as you did for the mortar. As seen in the pic.
Know get some on your Float trawl and start filling in the joint's push up down and back and fourth. Really working it in there.

After that's all done as seen. We are going to take ow er sponge and wipe every thing up. Do Not push hard at all. We just wanna clean the area get as much film off as you can and feather in the grout joints. Let dry over night

Now we are going to seal the grout. Prevents stains etc. just follow directions.                                                

   

Then i put this Guard on the tile. Follow Directions.
Know we are done.

 Hope you liked this little job.  And helps you Do it yourself..