Saving late-Showa tile instead of giving in to the ubiquitous microcement coat must have taken serious patience. Did they have to source custom infill pieces for those Takehara curves, or was the original bedding actually sound enough to keep intact?

The reflex to just skim microcement over awkward corners has ruined so much good tilework. Saving those Takehara curves takes real stubbornness from a team, and it shows.

The highlight roll-off across those original curved radii is impossible to replicate with a flat skim coat. So glad they took the time to save the tile instead.

Mapping those vintage radius details from scan data to see where the bed actually shifted over forty years is maddening work, but keeping that geometry beats another blank microcement box every single time.

Every site meeting on an older wet facility starts with someone pushing microcement to bury curves they don't want to re-grout. Stripping decades of scale off original radius tile takes patience most schedules simply refuse to budget for, but the depth you keep is worth every argument.

The microcement jab hits home. Keeping Takehara’s curved radii intact rather than taking the easy demo route takes real patience, but the room is infinitely better for it.

Saving Takehara’s curved radii instead of taking the lazy microcement route takes serious nerve and patience from a client. That late-Showa tilework has an exacting geometry you simply cannot replicate once you strip it back.