So one job I get asked to do now and then is to patch something like siding or tile. And I always tell the client, 80% of it is finding a replacement piece to match.
I often envy people who do all new installs– they don’t have to hunt down sources of off white tile or siding, be told “they don’t make it anymore, and here is something close but doesn’t match exactly.”
So anyway, a regular client has a small bathroom in her office condo. They had switched from hot water heat to forced air, and the baseboard heating unit had been removed, and this left her with a godawful ugly hole in her bathroom floor.
So as is so often the case, I did not know very much about tiles, but I set out to solve this tiny blemish and learned as I went.
We were lucky enough to find some tiles that almost matched. And it took me a week to learn how to cut tiles . . . and I put in the patch pieces. Pix below.
I could not use thinset because the tiles were mounted on a wooden subfloor (this is why I ask endlessly questions at hardware stores– there are traps everywhere). So I covered the hole with a wooden patch, screwed it in, and attached the tile patch pieces with liquid nails.
And, with the baseboard installed (I did not do this) it looks magnificent.
