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    Cracked travertine foor tiles underfloor heating!!! help please

    Hello, advice needed I have recently moved into a lovely house, it is 8 years old and has underfloor heating. I have noticed that the floor in the Kitchen has started to crack the tiles (4"X4") just by the outside wall. I found 2 cracked at first but now a couple of weeks later I have found 3...
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    Old cracked screed over floorboards, can I just remove it?

    Got a hallway and utility to tile (1920's semi), hallway is normal floorboards and then goes into utility but changes to an old 40mm screed. This is cracked badly and parts are loose, under the utility is a celler and when you go down you can clearly see the bottom of the utility floor which is...
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    Cracked grout next to bathtub( Photo included)

    Hi as you can see in the photo i have problems with cracked grout next to the bathtub.How can i fix that?Just clean the grout and apply new one?Will it hold?Thanks a lot and sorry for my poor english. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipl0wzy3jj3m47s/IMG_20121017_010820.jpg
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    New Limestone Kitchen Floor + electric UFH - Grout cracked after 24hrs

    I'm hoping for some professional advice on what to do with my new Limstone tiled floor - I'm at my wits end!! I had a job carried out in my house by local a tiler which completed 1 month ago - Sept '12; details as follows: - New build house that we've lived in for 4 yrs since new. - 40 sq mtrs...
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    Cracked Mirror

    Hi, I am hoping some one on here can help.About a year ago I fixed(using mirror adhesive)a mirror with a heating pad on the back to a wall that was tiled with marble tiles. A couple of days ago it cracked horizontally,has anyone got any ideas as to why it would crack after a year? I know it...
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    Cracked Plaster Around multi-fuel stove

    Hi, I am a diy amateur enthusiast. I have recently completed my first tiling job (kitchen splashback) and it turned out really well!! My next project is to tile (ceramic tiles) the back of a multifuel stove (situated in a corner of the kitchen) to protect the walls from marks etc (plastered and...
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    Cracked wall tiles

    Evening people, had a call from customer saying her wall tiles had cracked from job i did just before xmas. I have just viewed it, 4 tiles have cracked, all on bathroom exterior wall, 600x300 ceramic from Topps, 2 of them are left hand side of one window and the crack is diagonal across the...
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    Cracked screed beneath Victorian tiles, please help!

    We are considering restoring our Victorian floor. The screed below is cracked, how shall I repair the screed?
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    How to repair a cracked screed.....

    The job i'm on this week as a screeded floor with water fed ufh, which we are putting durabase down before tiling with 600x400mm pocelain. The point where the screeders finished one night and restarted again opened up to about 5 - 7mm. I said i think they will have to do an epoxy stitch, to...
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    Hi! New member and looking for advice about a cracked floor please!

    I have an approximately 30sqm kitchen floor to re-tile after lifting cracked tiles. House new build 2006 with finished concrete floor put in one continuous layer throughout downstairs over underfloor heating pipes and then the walls built up from there (so no expansion gaps between rooms). The...
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    Cracked screed ???

    Going to be doing a job that's got wet ufh. Noticed a crack, that was there before the ufh was started up, so I'm presuming it was a stop/start point in the screeding Its less than 3mm wide. Would i get away with putting a strip of Mapeitex membrain over it going 3 - 400mm either side of the...
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    Jerboa Tiles - New Floor Hollow but no tiles cracked -

    Hello and maybe someone will be able to help. We have just finished an extensive house refurbishment. The kitchen area circa 100 sq.m is tiled with 60x60 Jerboa ceramic tiles. Someone else posted historically about the colour changes to the tile picking up dirt etc. - we have the same problem...
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    tiling cracked and movement

    tiling was done in kitchen and hallway last july two weeks ago a tile cracked there is movement and clicking noise in centre of floor another tile lifted noi bother and some grout/adhesive on back then another cracked. its a house that is ten years old the plywood they used was 6mm. ceramic...
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    cracked travertine

    Hi All Ive got a really nice job ive been recommended for, 77 sq mtrs of travertine. The customers father has had a shop install about 120 sq mtrs in his house through the ground floor. 60x60 tiles with a high gloss finish(thats another tread coming im afraid). there are some long runs with a...
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    Porcelain tiles cracked

    Hi there, I really hope someone can help. I had new porcelain tiles fitted over electric underfloor heating a few months ago and, wherever a tile has been cut (like a corner), they now have a hairline crack. These tiles are over Vysal underfloor heating. Is the problem with the heating or the...
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    Removing cracked tile from heated floor!!

    Any advice for removing a cracked tile that has been fixed on underfloor heating (electric mat) Solid floor mat was covered with self leveling compound. Thank you for any advice
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    Cracked tiles

    Hi, I`m Ken from South Africa, I have a problem with floor tiles cracking when slight house movement occurs, ( House movement is the norm here ). Is there any method I can use when laying new tiles which will stop this happening again.
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    Help! Cracked floor tiles

    Hi All, I am a homeowner seeking help and would greatly appreciate any advice or assistance that can be offered. I have Saloni Nirvana Gris ceramic tiles laid on the floor of my bathroom (59x30) - these were installed about 1 year ago and within the first 3 months I had a crack appear in one...
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    What has caused my cracked tiles

    Just had a new bathroom fitted. Shower area is tanked with a Novellini wetroom kit and tilesafe. 3/4 of the rest of the bathroom walls are tiled with 450mm x 225mm Love Cermaic Tiles Travertino Bianco colour and fixed with Topps Tiles standard flexible self mix adhesive. Walls are of mixed...
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    cracked grout

    my boss told me to go to a job today,when i got there she had a crack in the grout line in the bathroom floor,the floor has been down for bout 1 year,can some 1 tell me why the crack has appeared thanks

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