Tile Installation & Shower Repair in Chicago

Sometimes, and where a spare box of the original tile exists it is straightforward. Without a match, a patch will always read as a patch. Cracked tiles in a shower are also often a symptom of movement or moisture behind, which is worth checking before patching.

Usually because something behind it is moving or wet. Grout is not waterproof u2014 it is the waterproofing layer under the tile that keeps water out. Grout that fails repeatedly in the same place is a message about what is behind it.

Not always, but enough to see the substrate and find where water is getting in. Guessing from the surface and re-grouting is how people spend money twice. We open enough to diagnose properly and tell you what we find.

A repair addresses tile and grout on a sound structure. A rebuild takes it back to framing, replaces the substrate and waterproofing, and starts again. If water has been getting past for a while, the second one is usually the only durable option.

Setting materials and grout both need to cure, and the waterproofing before them does too. Using a shower early is one of the more common ways a good tile job is undermined, so we give you a real date rather than an optimistic one.