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    Cracked Porcelain floor tile potential stress fracture

    I purchased porcelain floor tiles 900×900mm while setting out the tiler and noticed a slight line in the edge of a tile. Laying it on a flat surface he tapped the tile gently on the line and it cracked. The tiler believes this to be a stress fracture from the manufacturing process. Which is due...
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    Cracked floor tiles on edges

    Hi, I'm a diyer, have floor tiles that have cracked in the kitchen area of a flat on outer edges where it meets carpet, must have been down some time. I chipped the old ones off to replace, they are on a sheet of ply, which stops at the tiling area causing a height difference to carpet and if...
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    Cracked floor tiles

    I had the bathroom refurbed several months ago and about a month or two after the job a large fine crack started to show. It has since got worse and grown. Another hd appeared by the door too. At the time the floor had to be levelled and thick ply put down as a surface. The tiles are from Topps...
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    Cracked bathroom floor tiles

    I had our bathroom floor tiled several months ago and about a month or two after the job a couple of fine cracks appeared through some tiles. They since got worse. The floor had to be levelled, with thick ply bei used. The tiles are Topps Tiles Checker tiles. Rapid set adhesive was used. I’m...
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    Why have the tiles cracked?

    Hi all, I posted on here about a year ago as we had a lot of problems with newly fitted bathrooms. We hoped our troubles were (mostly) behind us however a year on and the floor tiles have cracked. Could anyone offer any thoughts as to why they are cracking? I will attach photos....the crack runs...
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    2 cracked tiles on a new bathroom refurb - advice please

    I had my bathroom refurbished 5 weeks ago and I’ve just noticed that there’s a hairline crack going through 2 tiles and the grout line in-between. I don’t think this was there when it was completed but I’ve noticed it now as I’ve just had my first bath so it could have been like this for weeks...
  9. TileBoom!

    Fired Earth, Hearth tiles ... cracked! ...

    Dear TilersForum Thank you so much for the outstanding advice and expert information over time. I have been tiling for some years part-time … however I kneel at this alter of greater Tiling experience and knowledge. I took on what I thought was a very simple quick job. A few tiles in a hearth...
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    Cracked Tile New Floor UFH

    Hi Just looking for a bit of advice - new tiled floor installed in kitchen & Conservatory a few months ago, 90 X 90 Porcelain tiles. I waited 2 months before turning on the UFH and went up a degree a day, I followed all the precautions. However I noticed a hairline crack on one of my tiles at...
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Tiling on cracked skimmed plasterboard

    Hi All, I'm just about to start some kitchen tiling. I've been knocking some old tiles off the skimmed plasterboard, and some of the skimming has come off (see photo). What's the best course of action here? Remove all the broken skimmed areas and work from there? Or try and remove all the...
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    Ceramic tiling onto cracked concrete hearth

    Hi - I'm trying to lay a flush tiled hearth for a new fireplace. It's likely to be decorative rather than used for fires, but so far it has been built to regulations for solid fuel use. To get it flush with the new floor, the hearth has been raised with a sand and cement slab over a concrete...
  14. Pirlo_21

    Tiles cracked again

    So earlier last year I had my whole bathroom done up including new was and floor tiles. A few months into it however I noticed the tiles on the bathroom flors has started to crack The cracks grew longer luckily the tiles was doing another job and he had a looked and was very confused (and...
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    Cracked Travertine tile repair

    Fitted our hallway with Travertine tile a few years ago. Followed up with doing the Kitchen floor with the same tile about 18 months ago. 2 of the tiles that meet the hallway tile were cracked. I removed the tile and I could clearly see the backerboard gap. Before I put replacement tiles down...
  17. How to Replace a Cracked Tile

    How to Replace a Cracked Tile

    Learning how to replace a cracked tile can save you a TON of money.
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    Cracked tiles on suspended floor

    Hi Our first floor bathroom floor is constructed of floor boards over joists over which I have laid an electric heat mat and covered with ceramic tiles. The floor has settled and cracks are beginning to appear in some of the tiles. Could I put a self levelling compound over the floor and...
    • Mark Duff
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    • canada crack cracked cracking debonding floor floor tiling suspended tile tiles
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Cracked Tiles

    Hi looking for advise regarding cracked wall tiles on an internal wall. I had a new bathroom installed with the bathroom being fully tiled. A few months after work finished I noticed cracked tiles at the window. The company came out to inspect the tiles and said they had never saw anything...
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    • canada crack cracked cracking debonding tile tiles
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Help with cracked crumbling grouting

    Hi there, I wonder if you can help. I have some porcelain tiles and I believe there is a little movement which means that the grout is cracked and has come out - see pics. (I've tried three tilers and always had bad outcomes). So now the floor always looks dirty and I'm also extremely worried...
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    Cracked Tiles over Bonding Plaster

    Hi all, We had our bathroom fully re-done approx 2 months ago. 1880's property, the previous tiles around the shower area had failed, due to water ingress. All tiles, old plasterboard etc were removed. The two brick walls were then bonding plastered. The side of the chimney breast was built out...
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    Commissioning UFH, cracked screed, large tiles, help

    Hello. I'd appreciate it if you guys could help me out here; I've been reading as many threads as I could on the matter over the last few days here and while I think I have a fair understanding of things, I'd like to provide the specifics of my situation. I have a 68 sqm apartment in which UFH...
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    Badly cracked limestone - can I replace individually with decoupling

    self build completed 10 years ago, large kitchen diner on 65mm hand mixed screed, with no stress relief joints & wet UFH! Tiled with limestone, found that the tilers switched to cheaper adhesive not suitable for UFH approx a third of the way through the job, they then added flex fluid to the...
  26. J

    Tiles cracked in new bathroom

    Hi, I was hoping I might get some advice with a cracked tiling issue I am experiencing. We had a new bathroom installed about a year ago, and noticed the other day that half the top two rows of tiles along an interior brick wall are cracked. We had a closer look around the bathroom, and found...
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