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    DIY question, I'll go search in the right places but thought I'd ask here. I have taken a chip out of the corner of a wall tile in the toilet. It's about 1cm across. from the top corner of a tile. I have the chipped-off piece, and it fits back on cleanly. How can I glue it on? Obviously the surfaces are highly absorbent.

    I do not have a replacement tile so this is the only solution short of retiling.

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    Originally posted by expat View Post
    DIY question, I'll go search in the right places but thought I'd ask here. I have taken a chip out of the corner of a wall tile in the toilet. It's about 1cm across. from the top corner of a tile. I have the chipped-off piece, and it fits back on cleanly. How can I glue it on? Obviously the surfaces are highly absorbent.

    I do not have a replacement tile so this is the only solution short of retiling.
    Superglue?

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      #3
      Originally posted by expat View Post
      DIY question, I'll go search in the right places but thought I'd ask here. I have taken a chip out of the corner of a wall tile in the toilet. It's about 1cm across. from the top corner of a tile. I have the chipped-off piece, and it fits back on cleanly. How can I glue it on? Obviously the surfaces are highly absorbent.

      I do not have a replacement tile so this is the only solution short of retiling.
      You will never get it to look right and you will always know it is chipped.

      Can you not replace it with a "feature" tile?
      I am not qualified to give the above advice!

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        #4
        Put up a mirror, shelf or cabinet to hide it?

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          #5
          Originally posted by expat View Post
          DIY question, I'll go search in the right places but thought I'd ask here. I have taken a chip out of the corner of a wall tile in the toilet. It's about 1cm across. from the top corner of a tile. I have the chipped-off piece, and it fits back on cleanly. How can I glue it on? Obviously the surfaces are highly absorbent.

          I do not have a replacement tile so this is the only solution short of retiling.
          What about buying a some decorative tiles? Some people go out of their way to fit these even if they have perfectly serviceable plain ones.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Menelaus View Post
            Superglue?
            See, I am looking for the reply that doesn't have a "?" after it

            Superglue would not work, because as I said the surfaces are absorbent.

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              #7
              Originally posted by expat View Post
              See, I am looking for the reply that doesn't have a "?" after it

              Superglue would not work, because as I said the surfaces are absorbent.
              Apologies. I'm tulip at DIY!

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                #8
                Originally posted by Menelaus View Post
                Apologies. I'm tulip at DIY!
                Me too. I just don't know whether it's even possible to glue it back on: a thin glue will presumably just soak in, and a thicker glue, or a non-absorbent extra coating, will spoil the flush fit and ruin the appearance.

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                  #9
                  You need ceramic adhesive like Araldite Rapid Ceramic And Glass Adhesive.
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                    #10
                    You need to clean up the back of the chipped section to get rid of any adhesive there, and carefully scrape out at much as you can from the hole it came from. Then use tile adhesive to replace it. You'll still see the crack but anyone who didnt know it was there would have to look hard to find it.

                    Easiest way of cleaning up the back of the chipped piece is to put a piece of fine sand paper on a flat surface and rub the chipped piece along it.
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