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"reglazing" a tile, technically, means to apply a new coat of liquid glaze, put the tile back in the kiln, and fire the glaze till it melts and fuses.
This is not done, commercially, in any country I am aware of.
Occasionally, skilled ceramic artists I know will do multiple firings of complex glaze patterns.
But to physically remove bathroom tiles, then reglaze them, is virtually impossible, and, if it could be done, would cost a fortune.
I can only assume that the OP meant to replace missing or broken tiles, or to remove all existing tiles, and retile with new tile.
Personally, I went down to the tile district, which is roughly Cordoba y Dorrego, and looked thru the new old stock at several stores til I found some I liked. There are also quite a few tile stores just off of Libertador, over in Nunez- this is more a "Design" neighborhood, so there are more modern, zippy designs, while on Cordoba, you find a lot of fifties and sixties styles, which go well with older BA apartments.
The neighborhood in Nunez is mostly on Arribenos, which is one block parallel to Libertador, kind of behind the Baruguel Azulay. There are a bunch of stores there.
In either neighborhood, you can find hundreds of different tiles, colors, textures, and sizes.
And, in either neighborhood, you can ask the guys at the stores for recommendations of tile layers. They deal with these guys every day, and know the good ones.
Or you can use your own tile layer- but either way, you need to find, and buy, the tile first. Its always cheaper to buy it yourself, rather than pay the markup for somebody else to do it, and get what they pick.
If all you care about is cheap, you can get tile at Blaisten on Juan B Justo. If you want fancy, you can go across the street to the Baruguel on the other side of Juan B Justo.
This is not done, commercially, in any country I am aware of.
Occasionally, skilled ceramic artists I know will do multiple firings of complex glaze patterns.
But to physically remove bathroom tiles, then reglaze them, is virtually impossible, and, if it could be done, would cost a fortune.
I can only assume that the OP meant to replace missing or broken tiles, or to remove all existing tiles, and retile with new tile.
Personally, I went down to the tile district, which is roughly Cordoba y Dorrego, and looked thru the new old stock at several stores til I found some I liked. There are also quite a few tile stores just off of Libertador, over in Nunez- this is more a "Design" neighborhood, so there are more modern, zippy designs, while on Cordoba, you find a lot of fifties and sixties styles, which go well with older BA apartments.
The neighborhood in Nunez is mostly on Arribenos, which is one block parallel to Libertador, kind of behind the Baruguel Azulay. There are a bunch of stores there.
In either neighborhood, you can find hundreds of different tiles, colors, textures, and sizes.
And, in either neighborhood, you can ask the guys at the stores for recommendations of tile layers. They deal with these guys every day, and know the good ones.
Or you can use your own tile layer- but either way, you need to find, and buy, the tile first. Its always cheaper to buy it yourself, rather than pay the markup for somebody else to do it, and get what they pick.
If all you care about is cheap, you can get tile at Blaisten on Juan B Justo. If you want fancy, you can go across the street to the Baruguel on the other side of Juan B Justo.
