Cedar Mill Property Repair swaps out cracked tiles, regrouts floors and showers where the old grout has split or turned to sand, and lays new ceramic or porcelain floor tile. Our tile customers live in Bethany, Cedar Mill, Beaverton and their neighbors. Metro-wide, swapping a cracked tile tends to cost $150-$600 and regrouting $300-$1,500, both labour only, per market figures gathered in November 2026 . A phone photo texted to is enough to start.
Slava sets and grouts every tile himself, with 7 years of his own hands-on work behind him.
What tile work do you take on?
| Job | What's in it | Portland-area range | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cracked tile replacement | cut out the broken tile, set a new one, regrout around it | $150-$600; $300 is common | labour only |
| Grout repair and regrouting | rake out failed grout, fill the joints again | $300-$1,500; $700 is common | labour only |
| Floor tile installation | ceramic or porcelain, one room | $800-$4,000, typically about $2,000 (national data) | with materials |
Soft or leaking shower walls and fresh caulk belong to bathroom refresh; backsplashes live under countertops and backsplash. A single loose tile is easy to tack onto other fixes on one small-jobs trip.
Can you fix a cracked tile without replacing it?
A small chip in the glaze can be filled and tinted, a fair weekend fix for a homeowner. A crack through the body of the tile is different, and so is a tile that rocks or sounds hollow. Glue on the face won't hold that tile down. It comes out: grout cut away around it, the tile broken out from the middle, old thinset scraped off, a new tile bedded and the joints filled.
Locally that swap costs $150-$600 in labour on November 2026 market numbers, and a usual one lands near $300 and three hours . The slow part is a match, so look in the garage or attic for a leftover box first. Many Cedar Hills homes from the 1950s-60s keep their first bathroom, tiled in colours no store has stocked for decades .
Why do floor tiles crack?
Usually the trouble is underneath: joists or subfloor too springy for something that rigid. Other usual causes are tile set straight onto plywood with no backer, a heavy pan dropped in the kitchen, a crack in the slab running up through, or tile packed tight to the walls with no gap for movement.
A new tile on a bouncy floor cracks along the same line within months, so the floor gets checked first . Many west-side homes stand over crawl spaces, so you can get under a bathroom and look straight at its joists. A soft patch beside the toilet often points to an old, slow leak into the subfloor.
How much does grout repair cost?
Portland-area regrouting jobs land between $300 and $1,500, about $700 for a typical one and roughly six hours, labour only (market estimate for November 2026). Grout and sealer cost extra .
Square footage moves the price most. Then come how stubborn the old grout is (cement scrapes out, epoxy fights you), joint width, which decides sanded or unsanded grout, redoing corner caulk, and sealing. Grout cleaning and colour-sealing is a different service that replaces nothing, and we don't sell it. Every other range we publish sits on one pricing page.
Can you put new grout over old grout?
Not if you want it to last: a thin skim over old joints has nothing to grip and flakes out within a season. The old grout has to come out to most of the joint depth before new grout goes in . Where the tub meets the wall, and in inside corners, the joint gets flexible caulk instead of grout.
Grout crumbles when the floor or wall moves, when water gets behind it, when the mix was weak, or when the joints were filled too shallow to begin with. In a shower, crumbling grout with loose or spongy tile behind it means water is already inside the wall. At that point it's a surround repair or a rebuild, or, going further, swapping the tub out entirely through a tub-to-shower conversion.
What does new floor tile cost, and what goes into it?
Tiling one room costs $800-$4,000 including materials on nationwide numbers collected in November 2026, with a usual job near $2,000 and about 20 hours on site . Room size and tile size matter, since big formats need a flatter floor. Tear-out, backer board or membrane, layout cuts and resetting the toilet all add hours.
Under Oregon law, home work costing more than $2,000 calls for a signed written agreement, and a smaller job that swells beyond that sum must get its paperwork within five days. Read what Oregon contracts must include for the details.
Are old tile and vinyl floors safe to pull up?
Two Oregon rules reach flooring. If construction finished before Jan. 1, 2004, DEQ says an accredited asbestos inspector must look the place over first, before renovation starts, and it counts replacing or repairing a floor as renovation. Homeowners working on the single-family house they occupy get a pass. Vinyl floor tile appears in DEQ's list of asbestos materials and warns that the material can't be spotted by eye.
The second is lead. Pre-1978 houses get treated as lead-painted until lab results prove otherwise, and Oregon guidance counts disturbing more paint than a 2-by-3-foot patch in any one room as renovation, flooring jobs included. Prying off painted baseboard for new tile can get there fast. Asbestos removal and lead-paint disturbance are both off our list, so both appear on what we don't do. Most houses in our zone were built before 2004, including many in Bethany .
Will a tile job need a permit in Oregon?
In most cases, no. Oregon's BCD puts tile and similar finish work on floors, walls and ceilings on its exempt list for building permits, and regrouting tile needs no plumbing permit. Moving a drain or wiring a heated floor can need other permits, and we don't do either. Portland city rules likewise let you lift a toilet and reseat it for new flooring with no permit.