CalFlor FL49133 TileFix, Mix2Match Tile & Stone Repair Kit

First off, the results, as pictured, look really good for polished stone tile. I should note that I've been a professional traditional media artist for 20+ years, so working with stone patching color mixing and faux texturing wasn't too hard. If you read the a accompaying instructions you should be good. With that said, some notes; the black is super black, dilute it with water and use sparingly!! As well as most other colors. If you are a novice you should study basic color mixing first, particularly RGB method. The kit comes with many common stone colors if you dont feel like mixing the basics BUT if you want an exact match you will be doing a lot of trial an error and you will have to use the included red, green, and blues. The patching base compound in the tube is kinda minimal, only enough for about a square inch. As the instructions say, patch dark, then let dry, then texture with a lighter mix using a frialed cotton swab. You will need more cotton swabs than the kit has!! The compound looks lighter when wet but dries darker!! Do go light on the first pass The final lacquer coat leaves much to be desired. It comes with no polishing tools and if you have a perfectly flat stone floor tile to patch them you need to sand it afterwards. Overall it's a good kit but I think it needs more patching compound.

This works, but don't expect it to be easy. Matching any natural striation of colors is time consuming but not impossible, but if you have the patience and can follow directions. I'm attaching two pictures: one just after applying the plain putty fill, so you can see the crack is about 1/8" of an inch wide. The second picture is after HOURS of mixing colors and blending. It's not perfect, but it's as close as it'll get for putting my house on the market to show. BTW: this crack's always been there, but when installed, they did a perfect job of hiding it, but the stone putty wears away after about 2-3 years. I finished mine with a few coats of lacquer that come with the kit. Use several coats with time to dry between.

Followed the instructions and the color was off - 28 is not a big number for colors. Had to experiment a bit with yellow, tan and white (yes white makes a difference not just the amount of color). Apply then dry (use a hair dryer) because color changes as it dries adjust and try again. Final results were really good. A full vanity mirror fell leaving the floor with a number of pits the largest the size of a dime. When done can't see the repairs for 2 feet. The only way to see is to look at them at an angle (head next to the ground a few feet from the repairs) and the difference in reflection makes them look like smears. Cons The miking board is cardboard one use - next time get a bit of plastic

So, it took me a while to get around to mixing this product up. Easy enough instructions. You need to have a 'color eye' to get the colors right. (don't believe the color mix chart) Still no big deal. Instructions included not very clear so I went to the website to watch video. Made them a little more clear. I think I did a fairly good job of matching up my tile fixes....thankfully, they were very small chips that really weren't all that bad to begin with. At any rate, why would a company give you all necessary items to mix, etc. but make the MIXING BOARD (probably one of the most critical elements) out of PAPER? So, you are only supposed to mix this stuff up one time? Hello? The mixing bowl and mixing/application tool(loose term) are plastic. The color mixing stick is wood and THE MIXING BOARD is CARDBOARD. Really? That is just about stupid. And for the price of this kit, it is ridiculous. I am disappointed. Now, I will have to 'estimate' the amount of putty (was fairly easy using the mixing board). Everything else is set up as mult-use, why not the mixing board?

Wow, I'm impressed! This product works! I had my doubts but after watching a couple of youtube video's on this product, I decided to try it. We had about 10 feet of tile crack and a couple of feet of that was about 3/16" wide. This product worked great and I didn't have that hard a time matching the tile even though other reviews indicated this would be a problem. Mixed the putty and colors per the directions and filled the cracks. After drying I could see my first color mix was a bit light, so I did another mix and went over the cracks again as most of the previous filling had shrunk a bit. The final result is great. The putty tube supplied filled my 10 feet of cracks and there is still a small amount left over. I will buy more of this product when I have more tile cracks.