Vandalism isn't cool

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So guys I have really nice bathroom in the shop. Some jerk keyed the tiles on the walls they are deep scratches if they were on a car I dont think I could get them out but I'm pretty sure I could lighten them up to all but invisible with wet sanding and polishing. They are regular cermaic and before I inflict more damage I thought I would ask if anyone has any sugestion, I really dont want to tear out the tile and replace but I will if I cant make it look better, UGH....
Here is what it looks like only on black tiles in random place around all the walls
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So If you have any Ideals or any thing not to do like use sand paper please let me know
 
I don't think your going to be able to fix that by sanding them. It looks like the glaze is scratched through almost like clear coat. One possible fix as you are quite handy would be to scuff them up and spray them black again. You should be able to come pretty darn close in the shade of black if not exact. They look like they are just a basic jet. Obviously clean the grout out first then just re-grout them.
 
rzatch said:
I don't think your going to be able to fix that by sanding them. It looks like the glaze is scratched through almost like clear coat. One possible fix as you are quite handy would be to scuff them up and spray them black again. You should be able to come pretty darn close in the shade of black if not exact. They look like they are just a basic jet. Obviously clean the grout out first then just re-grout them.
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That's exactly what I was going to suggest. Save yourself a lot of headaches and just repaint it. Nobody will ever notice it :bigups
 
Get a grout removal tool, get the grout out around the tile, pop the tile out and thin set in a new tile.

Should be a very common tile to get.
 
Sorry to hear that. Some people... really. Had the entire length of my black car keyed too.

Like they said, the easiest would be to just replace the black tiles and re-grout.
 
When i worked maintenance on Burger Kings in the local area we dealt with this problem often. If the tile is black you can try a black permanent marker, wait for it to dry then hand buff it. Most of the time it will cover it and take of the issue. Plus it takes about 15min and is pretty cheap :)
 
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