Article: Avoiding costly tile replacement

A couple of weeks back, someone asked me about painting bathroom tile a different color instead of spending thousands of dollars to replace it.

As I always hope, many readers have written in with recommendations based on their experiences. I'll share a few.

Marilyn Harris of Hatboro, Pa., and her husband are the second owners of a house built in the 1940s. They bought the house in the mid-1970s, and the bathroom had pink and maroon tile set in a concrete base. The tile was "in good condition -- except for the color," she says. They had the tiles redone in a bone color by a local porcelain-refinishing company in 1991.

"The grout lines are lost with the reglazing, but the process has been ...

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