Michael A. on wed 20 feb 02
I have a box of ceramic wall tiles. I was wondering if I can apply =
glaze like a painting and refire the new glaze onto them. They are =
already glazed white. These are store bought glazed tiles that I used =
to tile my countertops.
Thanks!
Michael
Valice Raffi on thu 21 feb 02
>At 11:37 PM 2/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>I have a box of ceramic wall tiles. I was wondering if I can apply glaze
>like a painting and refire the new glaze onto them. They are already
>glazed white. These are store bought glazed tiles that I used to tile my
>countertops.
>>
Duncan (a manufacturer of pre-mixed glazes) makes a line of low-fire glazes
called Concepts that are designed for this type of application. I've used
them with kids a lot, working on previously glazed & fired tiles, plates,
etc.
Valice
in balmy Sacramento
Snail Scott on thu 21 feb 02
At 11:37 PM 2/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a box of ceramic wall tiles. I was wondering if I can apply glaze
like a painting and refire the new glaze onto them. They are already
glazed white. These are store bought glazed tiles that I used to tile my
countertops.
>
This often works well. Test your particular tiles first,
but I've had good success with this. Works especially
well with sprayed designs. Add lots of gum or Karo if
using homemade glazes; commercial ones are good and
sticky right from the jar. Most bathroom tiles seem to
handle being refired to ^06; not sure how much higher
they will go.
-Snail
Paul Lewing on thu 21 feb 02
on 2/20/02 8:37 PM, Michael A. at darkraptr@EARTHLINK.NET wrote:
> I have a box of ceramic wall tiles. I was wondering if I can apply =
> glaze like a painting and refire the new glaze onto them. They are =
> already glazed white. These are store bought glazed tiles that I used =
> to tile my countertops.
As always, it depends. You don't say what temperature you're going to
refire them to. And you can almost never find out what temperature they
were fired to originally. But most commercially made wall tiles are fired
somewhere between cone 04 and cone 1, although most of them these days are
fired in fast-fire rollerhearth kilns, so the glazes would look completely
different even if you refired them to the same temperature.
I know people who refire tiles to cone 04 all the time. They say that these
days, you never can tell what a particular brand or color is going to come
out looking like. You need to test every new brand or color.
I also knew someone who airbrushed Mason stains onto commercial tiles and
fired them to cone 6. They didn't look anything like they originally did,
but they "worked".
And, no matter what was done to the tiles originally, you can always refire
them with china paint on them and the original glaze will be completely
unaffected.
So, as usual, the answer is "It depends" and "Test, test, test".
Paul Lewing, Seattle
Getting ready to leave for Day 6 of the 9-day Seattle Home Show. Motto:
"It's not a show, it's a career".
Cindi Anderson on thu 21 feb 02
Hi Michael
I have done this in workshops. Use low fire glazes because you aren't sure
what temperature the original tiles were fired to. Low fire is pretty safe,
but I would still fire the first one in a bisque bowl just to be sure. The
color of the original glaze on the tile can discolor when refired. Some
black ones went brown black when we did it. Also, most of the glazes we
used worked but some did not. A few pooled up when fired because they
didn't stick to already glazed surface. (It actually looked cool, but only
if you were prepared and it is what you wanted.) I would test the glaze
you want to use on a piece to see how they work.
Cindi
Fremont, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A."
I have a box of ceramic wall tiles. I was wondering if I can apply glaze
like a painting and refire the new glaze onto them. They are already glazed
white. These are store bought glazed tiles that I used to tile my
countertops.
Michael
Geoffrey Shilling on fri 19 apr 02
Original message was in regard to tile that had already been glazed; re-g=
lazing and firing.
I have re-glazed tile with great success. I bought some glazed white til=
e for a mosaic, because that was easier at the time than trying to locate=
bisque tiles. Three coats of glaze and it came out just as it would on =
bisque. The tiles were fired to 06. I used Amaco glazes, simply because=
that was what was in the studio (an art class). The mosaic isn't done, =
but the tile looks good. If you would like some examples of what the til=
e looks like, I can take some pictures of the mosaic and put them online.=
=20
P.S. I am a newcomer to ClayArt and have gained so much knowledge in onl=
y a few days! Also, regarding my response above, I am no longer purchasi=
ng tile...going to try making it myself. This weekend in fact, is going =
to be the first attempt. Wish me luck!
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