Chipped tile repair cost UK: kit price or the visit

You drop a mug, or a pan clips the edge, and one corner of glaze is gone. The tile is still stuck down. The chipped tile repair cost UK pages you open next are pricing two different jobs: a boxed filler from amazon.co.uk, or a tiler cutting a tile out. On 15 October 2026 the twelve kits in our set were listed from £7.47 to £23.99.

In short

The chipped tile repair cost UK shoppers should budget is either a boxed filler or a tiler's visit, and those two figures belong in separate columns. On 15 October 2026 twelve amazon.co.uk kits ran from £7.47 to £23.99, while three published guides put a visit at about £60–£120, £140–£320 or £80–£300. Those are published ranges, not a quote for your postcode. Use the kit for a chip in a firm tile. Pay for a replacement when the tile is cracked through, hollow, or discontinued.

The kit price and the visit price are different bills

The kit price is the number on the amazon.co.uk listing. The visit price is what a tiler charges to come to the house and, where the tile has to come out, to bed a new one. A crack through the body turns the kit into a down payment on the visit. On 15 October 2026 entry listings ran from £7.47 to £9.99, mid listings from £13.59 to £18.99, including MendMight and Tufinein at a stated 160 g, and the top from £22.99 to £23.99. That top is still a box. Averaging the twelve would invent a price nobody charged that day.

Tufinein, at £16.99, had the largest review file in the set: 4.4 from 185, a stated 1:1 mix and a 24-hour cure. MendMight, at £13.59, had 4.1 from 171 and says the putty is not for structural cracks. The full set is in the tile repair kit comparison. The £7.47 listing had no star rating. BeoTnp, at £7.59, says 2×50 g in the bullets and 10 g in the weight field. YiJiAre was £9.99 with 4.3 from 113 reviews, while Bondtech's 5.0 came from 20 reviews on a listing first shown on 21 September 2026. Check that the grams agree before you pay the lowest tile repair kit price. That check is the start of the buying guide.

Flex Tiling, a Bristol firm, puts DIY materials at about £30–£80 beside a professional single tile at about £80–£300. That materials line is for replacing a tile yourself. A tile that has to come out is not finished by a £7–£24 kit.

What published guides charge for a chipped tile repair

Three public UK guides refuse to become one number. MyBuilder's tile repair price guide shows a floor tile at about £60–£120, and it marks porcelain as higher without a second figure, so a porcelain tile repair cost is a local quote. A 2026 guide on squote prices a spot repair at £140–£320 for one to four tiles, only when a matching tile exists, so a second tile is not automatically a second full invoice. Flex Tiling puts a professional single tile at about £80–£300. A tiler call-out for one tile is why the bottom of these ranges still looks large beside a £17 kit.

Tufinein at £16.99 is a little over a quarter of MyBuilder's £60 lower figure and about an eighth of squote's £140 lower figure. You keep that gap only when the box finishes the repair. MyBuilder is a marketplace price guide, squote assumes a match still exists, and Flex is one Bristol business. None prints a London, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland band. The budget figure is a written quote that names the chip, the crack, or the hollow tile.

When the kit is the whole job

The kit is the whole job when the chip sits in the glaze and the tile is still working. A firm tile sounds like the ones around it, does not rock, and the mark stops inside the missing glaze. Clean the chip, mix a test dot on card, and wait out the time on the card. Walls and Floors recommend an epoxy fill for a floor chip because a paint touch-up wears off underfoot. Bondtech, MendMight and Tufinein print a 1:1 mix and about 24 hours. MendMight also says wait a further 24 hours or more before water, so follow the card you bought. Reviewers of Tufinein describe a second layer when the first fill sank, so a deep chip can use more of the stated 160 g.

White paste fails on beige, grey and almond. MendMight's early reviews often miss beige and off-white, and the cured putty is shinier than the tile. Mix the dot before you fill the chip. Section 22 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 gives you 30 days to reject goods that are not as described. A colour you mixed badly is outside that right. BOFRHME, at £22.99, is melted wax bars, 2.5 from two reviews, not a two-part paste. Konig's UK ceramic and porcelain kit, outside these twelve, was £243.36 including VAT, about fourteen times £16.99, and still a kit. Wax suits a scratch, not a crack that gets wet. The Health and Safety Executive treats epoxy resins as skin sensitisers, so wear the gloves the label expects.

When the quote jumps because the tile is gone

The quote jumps when the tile itself has failed, because the cost to replace one floor tile is the visit. Topps Tiles says a cracked floor tile should be replaced. Paste on a crack through the body does not stitch the tile back together. A void under a floor tile is not the same as a tile that has come loose, and paste on the face does not fill the void. Re-bedding means adhesive, time, and often a new tile if the old one breaks as it lifts. £16.99 of paste on a drumming tile spends the kit on the surface of a fault underneath.

A spare from the same batch takes the hunt off the bill and leaves the labour. Someone still cuts the damaged tile out, beds the spare and grouts it, and a minimum call-out can cover that hour. Ask the quote to show the spare as supplied by you. With no spare, squote says a discontinued tile can cost several times the £140–£320 spot repair when more of the floor has to change. Keep several times as their phrase. It is not a multiplier we measured, and it should not become a homemade total of £420 or £900. Ask which area they would re-tile before anyone starts.

A line of cracks over underfloor heating is a movement problem, and another tube of paste does not buy movement joints. Water already at the ceiling below is a leak path, not a chip. In England, a chip in a landlord's bath, sink or basin sits with the landlord on the GOV.UK private-renting repairs page. That page is not the law in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, and a floor tile you own is a different question from a rented bath.

What to ask before you pay for a chipped tile repair

Answer three checks before you ask anyone for a price. Is the mark a chip in the glaze, or a crack through the tile. Does the tile sound like its neighbours, or does it drum. Is there a spare from the same batch. Those answers select a kit, a single replacement, or a larger re-tile. Ask each quote, in writing, to name cutting the old tile out, adhesive, grout, making good, and whether VAT is included. Ask whether a minimum charge applies to one tile, and whether a second tile is extra. If no match exists, the area they would re-tile belongs on the paper first.

When the checks leave a sound chip, you are choosing a box. The largest review file with a printed 24-hour cure is Tufinein at £16.99, 4.4 from 185 reviews. MendMight at £13.59 says it is not for structural cracks, with 4.1 from 171 reviews. Who those kits suit is on the best-fit page. Neither shelf price puts a tradesperson on your doorstep. Products Compared read the twelve amazon.co.uk listings on 15 October 2026 and the public guides named here. We did not laboratory-test the pastes. If you buy through a qualifying amazon.co.uk link, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.