Q: Faucets leaked in my son-in-law’s tiled bathtub enclosure, which caused the old greenboard below them to dissolve and a few rows of tiles to come loose. I know it is virtually impossible to match ...
Q: The previous owner of our house redid the tile in the upstairs bathroom himself, and it isn’t the best job. Several of the ceramic floor tiles along the base of the bathtub are loose, cracked or ...
Q: Dear Ed: We have an older shower stall and the mixing valve has to be replaced. The valve is installed in an area hard to access and we need to open up the tile. The present tile can’t be matched.
Q: My home has 2½ baths. All three areas have cement floors with tiles laid in 1937, when the house was built. I want an update, but I would prefer not to take out the cement and tile. Is there ...
Q: We have an older shower stall and the mixing valve has to be replaced. The valve is installed in an area that’s hard to access, and we need to open up the tile. The present tile can’t be matched.
A frequent question we receive: What to do with an old tile shower or kitchen or bath countertop that has lost its pizzazz? Complaints center on grungy or stained grout, cracked or chipped tile and/or ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You can almost guarantee the DIYs you expect to be a snap… will end up being the hardest ones. Danielle Todesco shows us how the process to ...
Bathrooms still rank high on the list of homeowner renovation projects. But there are ways to give a bathroom a quick uplift without spending a bundle. Here are seven ways to renew your bathroom at an ...
Q. This week: The joint between our cast iron tub and the tiling on the wall has turned almost completely black. Nothing I put on it will clean it to the point that it is white, the way it was when it ...
Q. I’m looking for the best solution to repair the holes that will be left in my fiberglass tub/shower after I remove the glass shower doors. In your answer to a recent question about mildew and ...