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    Hairline crack repair advice

    Hi All, We have just discovered a hairline crack in one of our 6mm italian porcelain tiles. Its in quite a high traffic area and i would like to try and repair it. Im more concerned with reducing the chances that the tile gets worst and starts to move. Im less concerned with the appearance...
    • Shai
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    • advice canada crack cracking debonding hairline repair
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Cracked and debonded floor tiling

    hi I am new to this forum. Wanted to get some advise if possible. I had a new tiled floor laid a couple of years ago. The tiles have started to crack soon after completion and are now a complete mess. The floor build up is a timber hoist floor spaced at 300mm centres with 18mm ply board...
    • Sico31
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding floor tiling
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum
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    Cracking glaze months later

    Hi all. I've recently tiles a kitchen splashback with 300 X 100 X 8mm johnsons ceramic tiles onto a solid wall. 3 months later the customer calls me to say 2 tiles are cracked. Looking at the job I find 4 further cracked tiles but it's the glaze that's cracked. The cracks run in different...
    • Perfect Tiling
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    • canada crack cracking debonding
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Grout Cracking on floor

    Just after some advice really! I’ve just tiled the bathroom and tiled the wall and floors and grouted etc. However one week on, we have now notice small crack appearing in the grout. We were afraid this would happen. Our floor was floor boarded, we decided to go for backerboards to restrict...
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    Tiles cracked base of walk in shower?

    Hi, can anyone please offer a reason why the uptiles at the front of 2 ensuite walk in showers (below the shower screen) have cracked along the top corner edge? It's not just the grout that is cracked but the actual tiles themselves have cracked as well. The same thing has happened in 2 of the...
    • Octopus8
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding former shower shower tray tile tiles walk in shower wetroom
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Tanking and Wetrooms
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    Advice please- adhesive under crack matting, how important?

    We have wet underfloor heating and a screed down on our new kitchen floor. We bought crack matting after reading up to put down under or limestone tiles. Research said we needed to use full screed of flexible adhesive and then the crack matting, then adhesive and the tile. The tiler has then...
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    New UFH screed with a few cracks.

    Hi, thread over the UFH section, it's sort of moved onto prep. Cementainous screed with some cracks. Plan to deal with as below: 1. Sand/hoover/seal? Is the seal bit needed? 2. Fill any cracks I can with Resincoat Epoxy Crack Repair Filler. 3. Kerakoll Idrobuild Tex as uncoupling membrane 4...
    • MarkUFH
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    • canada crack cracking cracks debonding new build screed ufh
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Advice needed grout cracked

    Good evening, looking for a bit of advice. Had a new bathroom fitted a couple of months ago and grout in all corners has hairline cracks. Builder has regrouted once and covered with clear Silicon. However, has cracked again under sealant. Is Mapei grout and matching sealant colour isn't great...
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    Tiles not adhered, hollow sound and cracked grout

    just looking for some advice as to what has gone wrong. Used a local plumber who came highly recommended, unfortunately the guy I normally use was mega busy and couldn’t fit me in for over 6 months and we couldn’t wait that long. Summary Kitchen floor, wooden floorboards, porcelain tiles...
    • Eastyorkstile
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding grout not tile tile grout tiles
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: Tile Adhesive and Grout Advice
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    Hair line crack on cement tile

    The attached image shows a hair line crack on some cement floor tiles about 4 ft in length that starts at the wall and runs to the middle of the room. The tiles were laid by a professional about 14 months ago in my upstair bathroom - regular 1960 's timber frame house. There was also some...
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    Crack in tiled floor

    Hello. Our house was built in 1966 and the kitchen was extended in 1973, the new floor was laid with Platt quarry tiles. Until last month we had no problems. Then I noticed a 10ft long hairline crack along the line of the join between the old and new solid floors. Two surveyors have said...
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    Finishing stages of self build.... Question on anti crack options and Adhesive

    Hi Guys, first of all thanks for the wealth of info on here. I have tried searching to find answers of which I found some but not conclusive As the Tile suggests , just in final stages of completing my self build forever home and have a few questions on the tiling of the downstairs...
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    Encaustic tile sealing and hairline cracking

    Hi, Looking for advice please. 2 problems! We have just had encaustic tiles laid in our bathroom including wetroom style walk in shower. They were laid over a new floor (extended bathroom) which then had a layer of hardiebacker cement board on top screwed down all over it. The tiles have been...
    • tillymint19
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    • canada coverage crack cracking debonding encaustic hairline liquid paint seal sealing tile
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Cracks in screed, how to repair?

    Hi I’ve just removed a stone floor for a client. I didn’t tile it originally. The stone tiles had 3 sizeable cracks in it and the floor has a wet ufh system. We couldn’t work out why the tiles had cracked apart from guessing that it was due to cracks in the screed below and not using a...
    • clipboard2008
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    • canada crack cracking cracks debonding how repair screed
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Screed crack UFH - is there a problem?

    Hello all. I was hoping for some help with UFH issue. There seems to be many posts with similar issues but no answer fits all. I have had builders round to do a lot of work at my house. Part of it was digging out the floor and laying a wet UFH system. The room is approx 34sqM Damp proof...
    • Coopobot
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    • canada crack cracking debonding problem screed there ufh
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Crack Stitching with S/S bar

    I have an outside space that I am tiling onto a concrete base and t has a ck in it I dont think it has moved in years but I thought I would do something about it with some M8 stainless steel threaded bar and some R-Kem resin I put in 5 stitches over 2.3M.--- See what happens.
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    Regrouting grout that is cracking vertical and horizontal

    Hi guys, A customer has just asked if I Could regrout areas of a shower enclosure as it's suspected the water is running behind the grout and through the living room ceiling. There's quite a lot of cracking although tiles are OK. It appears that it's been laid on just plaster board and it's all...
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    Wrong type of Self leveling compound and cracks / underfloor heating

    Hi We had self leveling compound laid about a week ago by our builders in our shower room and through to our kitchen/diner, i`ve been cleaning today and i`ve noticed cracking and breaking at the edges near the patio doors. It was laid onto plywood boards (in the kitchen area) , concrete in the...
    • johnw100
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    • compound crack cracking cracks debonding floor heating leveling self self leveling compound underfloor underfloor heating
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Tiling on Underfloor Heating
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    Tiles Cracked in New Extension - Help Please !

    I think I posted this in the wrong forum so here goes again... We have had a single story extension done to our house which has left a 40M2 kitchen area which we have tiled. The problem is that the tiles (10mm thick from B&Q) and grout have cracked in line with the wooden joists which are under...
    • DAK
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    • canada crack cracked cracking debonding help new build please tile tiles
    • Replies: 35
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Build Work - Cracked tiles Help Please !

    We have had a single story extension done to our house which has left a 40M2 kitchen area which we have tiled. The problem is that the tiles and grout have cracked in line with the wooden joists which are under the floor. In terms of the build my understanding is the following: - Wooden...
    • DAK
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    • build crack cracked cracking debonding help job jobs please tile tiles tiling jobs tiling work work
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Tilers Community

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