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    Cracked mapei revonation screed

    Hi all, i posted this on the underfloor heating forum, but have had no reply yet. last week I laid loose wire UFH on top of cement insulation boards, and then laid mapei renovation screed over the top. I went back today, and all seems well apart from one area that has only just covered the...
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    Cracked Tiles in Loft Conversion

    Loft extension completed in the summer, we have large tiles in the bathroom and they have a hairline crack from floor to ceiling through 6 of them The builder says it is 'settling' issues We are not convinced At a minimum what should be done? Tiles removed and reapplied? Is it potentially a...
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    Biscuit coming out of crackle glaze tiles

    Hi A few months back I installed some crackle glaze tiles with a red biscuit. Prior to fixing, each tile was sealed with Aquamix Ultra-Solv. I have found that the surface of the tiles is covered with a red dust the same colour as the biscuit and I can only assume that it is the biscuit coming...
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    Cracked Bathroom Tiles on Plywood

    Hi, I hoping someone here can help as you seem to know what you're doing more than my builder! We had a new bathroom installed a couple of months ago. The builder replaced one of the internal walls with a plywood wall. Now there is a crack running horizontally right down the length of the wall...
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    Grout joints cracking

    Evening 1st time poster, so here goes I have a 2 part floor, half on the original screed which has an electric matting system(supplied and fitted by the electrician) and half on the new screed which has the water system in the screed, the floor was laid about a year ago. The new screeded area...
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    Crackle Glazed 75 x 150 ceramics

    As a rule, do you seal before grouting or after, neither or both? Tiles and grout both white. Cheers.
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    Mitering crackle glazed tiles - Fired Earth Retro Metro

    Some advice wanted please. Is it possible to get a decent mitre joint with crackle glazed tiles? Had a practice with one of the Fired Earth Retro Metro tiles today on current bathroom job. The crackles near the cut line broke out and it looked very messy. Admittedly the blade on my diamond...
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    Grout keeps cracking on new tile floor installation

    Hi there First of all, I am VERY happy to have found this forum, as I have been pulling my hair out over this issue. I'll apologise now if this explanation is elongated, but better to have more information than less right? Ok, this is my situation. I have been renovating my house, and had one...
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    Cracked tiles?

    Hello everyone. I have an issue with a bathroom floor I have laid. Bathroom floor was rotten and replaced by the joiner, who was also acting as ‘sort of ‘clerk of works on this residential refit. He said the floor was solid and all fixed. I could see it was overlaid with 18mm ply, so believed...
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    Cracked porcelain

    Hello. I've uploaded some photos which I hope you can see of a job I've just been to look at. Cracks like the ones in the photos have appeared in various places in a large entrance hall in this house. The crack doesn't follow one line and some are in and around the door threshold/frames and...
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    Problems with porcelain tiles cracking

    Doing a master bathroom with 600 x600 porcelain tiles. having a problem with tiles cracking either during process of doing a rectangular cut out for push flush or even days after fixed. this has happened before with others tiles but not all porcelain. cutting with a good quality blade . maybe...
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    Terracota tile with a cracked glaze

    Is there a special way of laying these..ie soaking them..as I was fitting them for a kitchen splash back you could here them making a cracking noise..they even made the noise when I was holding them which., I assume is expansion due to heat and moisture..they went on the wall fine but a bit...
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    Cracked screed floor.

    Have a problem, floor screed is crumbling and there is a crack right in the middle of the floor. There's also old carpet adhesive along the perimeter of the room(hall). I want to tile over. Any advice as to how to go about it, please.
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    crack mat on conctere?

    Hi, Would you still need to use a ditra or similar crack mat with marble on a concrete floor?
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    Grout line cracking

    H all iv recently re tiled the whole of my bathroom floor and wall. Iv now noticed that the grout has started to crack where the floor meets the wall. I put 6mm no more ply down onto the boards followed by a flexible rapid set adhesive with porcelain tiles. Does anyone know why this coud be...
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    Cracked grout lines

    Hello everybody I need help on this one I have just tiled a bathroom floor with underfloor heating and then grouted it the next day the a couple of days later I noticed 2 tiles had cracks running along the line everywhere else seems fine apart from these 2 tiles what's the best way to sort this...
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    cracked tiles 6 months afer fitting

    We have recently had our kitchen floor tiled. 4 weeks after fitting when walking upon the tiles loud cracks like snapping sticks were audible. The tiles looked to be sound with no cracks visible. After 5 months cracks have appeared mainly in the middle of the floor and on the periphery of the...
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    Cracked Glaze tile.to seal or no seal...that is the question

    Hi Guys. Anyone ever fixed this tile before? Has hundreds of hairline cracks running through the glaze and soaks in moisture. Never laid them myself before so just wondering if it needs sealing prior to grouting? grouting it later today!! in white grout. Thanks in advance :thumbsup:
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    cracking grout

    Greetings tiling people I have recently had my bathroom tiled - wall and floor. The grout in between the floor tiles is now cracking and coming out in a few places. The tiles were layed onto 12mm marine plywood which was screwed through the floorboards into the joists (obviously not very well)...
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    cracked wall tiles in en-suite

    hello, I am looking for some advice please. We had our ensuite redone in November and fully retiled. Last week I noticed fine vertical hair line cracks in two points extending up 6 tiles in one place and extending up 9 tiles in another, about 1 m apart. This wall is a false partition wall made...

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