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... a burnt kitchen tile???
I just moved to a new apartment. I am still hurting from paying my security deposit on fixing the carpet damage I did in the previous place.  This time I went through the trouble of buying a cheap thick carpet to put the hookah on top of it to protect the new carpet.
But guess what, I was moving the coal from the top of the oven to the coal bucket that I have. BOOM, son of [url="http://mailto:B$#$#@CH"]B$#$#@CH[/url], The freakin thing just falls down on the kitchen floor and spreads into 6-7 pieces that I burned my fingers trying to minimize the already done damage.  I started even spitting on one of them while carrying the other ones  
Now I have like 5 larger burns (1-3 cm), and a bunch of little ones. Any ideas how to fix this, changing the tiles is out of question with the freakin in-floor heating I guess ???   
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[quote name='pavlakos_politakos']COUGH*IDIOT*COUGH
just kidding dude.maybe you could put something over it as opposed to painting over it.a rug for instance?[/quote]

I'm sure he's more worried about what the super is going to think of
the damage done to the floor and losing his security deposit, more than
worrying about a couple of eye-sore burn marks in his tile.

Do you think when the time comes to move out, he can leave the carpet over the burn marks and the super will never know?
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I FOUND A SOLUTION,
I used a knife to carve out the burnt holes in the plastic/rubber tiles.  I bought a white filler and mixed it with sand that has the same color as the drawings on the tiles.  filled the holes and played around with the design.  They are almost not visible  but they have less shine...
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If there is an actual indentation from the burn then i think gunsboy
gave the best suggestions. If its just black on top of the tile you
might be able to use some oven cleaner and a heavy duty brush to brush
out the burn marks. If your a real handyman(which i am far from it) you
could replace the tiles with the burn marks on them but personally that
would be way too labor intensive for me. Dont feel too bad though one
time i dropped a charcoal on my moms vinyl flooring ooo man it was
horrible it broke into pieces and melted into the floor. I still have
not heard the end of it 2 years later .
You could also call up a guy that does tiles and have him come out and
check it out maybe it will be cheap to replace a few tiles wouldnt hurt
to find out.
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If you are talking about lenoleum squares, you should be able to replace just the effected sqare. But first, take a picture of the tile and take it with you to match up at the hardware store. The hardest part would be getting the old one up. They stick hard! Another challenge is to do it without damaging any other pieces.
MR Bubble
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