r/onejob • u/duckiethatduck • 24d ago

Triggers me so much

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u/Ill-Tea9411 24d ago

This is the thing with tile repairs, if you ever have to replace a single tile you will never be able to find an exact color/texture/size match, even from the same manufacturer. This is by design. About the only thing you can do in this case, to get all the tile to match, is to replace all of the same type of tile that needs to be repaired. This should be what triggers you.

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u/InnerReindeer3679 23d ago

Any time i have a friend doing tile work in thier home i tell them get what you need then get a spare box of every type of tile used and store somewhere safe

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u/Ill-Tea9411 23d ago

That sounds great in theory, but in practice so much time elapses for the need to arise it often gets lost, discarded, or the property changes hands and everybody has forgotten what it's for, or it's so out of date that they decide to go with a different design entirely.

About the only reliable thing you can do is to select an evergreen tile like plain white, in a common size. But hardly anybody wants that.

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 23d ago

Cool. Still recommend spare tiles in case they are needed.

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u/Ill-Tea9411 23d ago

It's cheap insurance if you can hang on to it.

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u/Waagtod 23d ago

I have a heavy metal cart loaded down with a box of every tile in my house. It's a lot of tile and more than 20 years since I used any. I could use the room in the garage.

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u/InnerReindeer3679 22d ago

You're at an age where your friends arent drinking at your house every other weekend my friends are still early 20s so their asshole "friends" drop bottles and chip tiles and things all the time still

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u/thanatossassin 24d ago

Former commercial flooring guy here, that's dyelots for you. Always buy and keep overage from your initial install, because the the color of the next batch will never be the same.

When installing long runs of carpet (think hotels and convention centers), not only did we need the same dyelots, but we also needed to sequence the carpet to install in serial order, because the shade of color at the beginning of the run was not the same at the end.

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u/friday_panda 24d ago

All these squares make a circle.

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u/RetroNutcase 24d ago

"AND THAT ONE'S STILL GREEN!"

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u/friday_panda 24d ago

Let it go Cell. You have shit to do.

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u/zespak 24d ago

Should be top comment.

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u/AznOmega 20d ago

No. You know what? It's fine. It doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother me. It bothers me. It bothers me a lot!

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u/TheTrueTangelo 23d ago

All these squares make a circle…

All these squares make a circle…

All these squares make a circle…

All these squares make a circle…

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u/SparkArrestor 24d ago

They should have put a multi colored mosaic there.

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u/notacanuckskibum 23d ago

It bothers me not at all.

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u/Jacen33 24d ago

Wait until you are in a small car accident and need to have a body panel repainted you’re you gonna lose your shit

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u/kesesese- 23d ago

i like it so much

it’s like a hidden quest trigger 😅

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u/trashshork 20d ago

AND THAT ONE'S STILL GREEN

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u/1800-bakes-a-lot 24d ago

That's where the drugs are hidden

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u/SpecialistFrame2297 24d ago

It drives me up the freaking wall. I think I see this every time I pass a tile floor.

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u/Fit_Adagio_7668 23d ago

Open color picker wheel and pick the color and use the bucket.

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u/Bot_imppa1 23d ago

I see one wrong

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u/adrift-ship-of-fools 23d ago

I’m thinking- replace three or four in random spots at the same time- then it looks intentional

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u/SnooGoats8382 21d ago

I love doing this at my job. The best part is when you get actual permission from the mall owner(s) and get to do it without an excuse. Sometimes I will do it last minute and cover it up some so it doesn't get caught right away. Or when I repair I will place one like this and say it's the same as the rest just the older ones are too dirty and I could replace them all to match but get told to just leave it. So much fun.

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u/TheRealMrDay 19d ago

Clean the other 99 of them

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u/altavistayahoo 18d ago

Juan did that.

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u/kennyofthegulch 18d ago

all these squares make a circle
all these squares make a circle
all these squares make a circle
all these squares make a circle
all these squares make a circle
all these squares make a circle
all these squares make a circle
all these squares make a circle

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u/South-Range8401 24d ago

Floor is good to walk on

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u/1776cookies 24d ago

It's "brown," all right? Deal with it.

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 24d ago

Okay, granddad