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    Cracked natural stone tiles on heated screeds

    I want this in an open forum because im seeing this more and more at the moment. CRACKED NATURAL STONE ON HEATED SCREEDS i have eight jobs to look at where the stone has cracked due to movement in the heated screeds, and most of the customers were not advised on heating the screed or had even...
    • enduro
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding natural natural stone screed stone tile tile setting tiles usa
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Tiling over cracked screed floor

    Hi all you experts, I have a liquid screeded floor which has been down for over 12 months. It has underfloor heating under in the form of warm water piped. There are now at least 18 largish cracks all about 1.5m randomly over the 5m x 7.5m area. I'm told that it is okay to tile over these with...
    • bill
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding floor floor tiling over screed tiling usa
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Can I Tile over Cracked Concrete

    Hi, Does anyone have any advice on tiling over cracks/joints in concrete screed. A few hairline cracks are emerging in my concrete screed and I want to know what should I do or what products should I use (e.g., membranes) to avoid these cracks appearing in the tiles after they are laid
    • BMD
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    • concrete crack cracked cracking debonding over tiling usa
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Flexible grout has cracked after only 2 days !!!!

    First time poster on here. I hope you guys can help me out here. Upstairs bathroom. 2.5M x 2.5M Have just replaced my bathroom floor with 18mm exterior ply and screwed down every 6inches on EVERY joist. Put down 330mmx330mm ceramic tiles using flexible tile adhesive. 2mm gaps. Grouted using...
    • Keez
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding flexible grout tile grout usa
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    LOOKING FOR A FLOOR TILER G77 AREA. CRACKED PORCELAIN 60x60 FLOOR TILES PROBLEM

    hi there, Ive posted a lot of info on the forum but will attach pics of cracked tiles to give an idea of problem.We have 60x60 cm porcelain floor tiles in kitchen and hallway. the tiles are cracking and the grout is drying up and coming out.They are laid over hardibacker board,below that 18mm...
    • rosi
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding find a tiler floor floor tiler floor tiles floor tiling looking porcelain porcelain tile porcelain tiles problem tile tiler tilers directory tiles usa
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Best Floor Tiles
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    Help - bathroom leaking, grouting cracked, PHOTOS

    Hi, I hope some of you kind people would be able to help me judge the seriousness of the problem I have. There's always been a mark on the ceiling in the kitchen since the house was bought a few months ago, but recently there have been proper drips coming through. Underneath the bath isn't...
    • martsharm
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    • bathroom crack cracked cracking debonding grout grouting help leaking photos tile grout usa
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Bathroom Tiling Advice
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    Cracked grout

    I had a phone call today to ask if i would go and look at a shower area in which the grout has started cracking. It was re tiled 2 years ago (not by me). This is my dilema, do i: A) agree to re-grout it but tell her that it may well happen again and to ring me if it does and we can discuss a...
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    Cracked floor

    I went to look at a job on sat, 19m2 floor on concrete, but in the kitchen her son (a builder) laid a concrete floor and tiled it. a few months later a crack appeared from wall to wall, about 3m, and it went in the middle of the tiles, not on the grout line. does any one no why this happened...
    • Aqua Tiling
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding floor floor tiling usa
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    cracked!

    Hi, hope someone can help, I have tiled three quarters of my kitchen floor which has wet underfloor heating and sand and cement screed. The room size is approx 8m x 5m and has an expansion joint splitting the screed into two bays. I have been using mapei makeper tiling adhesive. Prior to...
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    Cracked conglomerate.

    Hi Tilers forum, These pics are of a conglomerate granite bathroom floor 5m2 about 4 months old. Customer recently noticed fault lines appearing across the tiles in three places. The fault lines(beginning of cracks) run across 3 or more tiles but seem to unaffect the grout and tiles still...
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    cracked tiles & central heating pipes

    Went to see a bathroom floor the other night, bathroom had be redone a couple of years ago by a bathroom company. Anyway a T shape crack has appeared n the floor and seems to run in line with central heating pipes running to rad. Looks like the tiles have been laid on 9mm ply, dont know if it...
    • dhsanta65
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding heating tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Dealing with cracked floor tile

    In my daughter's kitchen a floor tile has cracked near the sink. The tiles are obsolete so I cannot replace it and don't want to retile the whole floor at the moment. What's the best way of sealing the crack to prevent water getting through?
    • Rogelio
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding floor floor tile floor tiling tile usa
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Tiling Over Cracked Screed

    Hello All, I've been reading through the forum and it seems like a great place to get some expert advice. About 5 years ago, we did the first renovation on our house. We had the subfloor removed (concrete) and dug down so that we could have UFH (wet obviously) put in. The screed was pumped...
    • mowzer
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding over screed tiling usa
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    cracked shower tile grout - advice needed

    I've got a leak in a shower. The shower cubicle has been added to a bedroom as an en-suite, by walling off one corner, but the wall I guess is not absolutely rigid, so there has been some cracking of the grout with use of the shower. This only affects the bottom 3 rows of tiles, so I'm...
    • RHCD
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    • advice crack cracked cracking debonding grout needed shower tile tile grout usa
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Cracked Screed

    Hi All First time post although I have found this site very informative as a guest in the past. Looking some advice, I am planning to tile 20sq m with 450mm x 450mm ceramic tiles. The floor is 50mm - 60mm sand & cement screed on top of DPM, 1" insulation on top of concrete subfloor, the...
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    Advice please.....ceramic tiles, chipboard floor, cracked grout

    Really appreciate your time..... I completed a 22sqm kitchen floor a few months ago, ceramic tiles on approx 1.5 inch thick chipboard. I used 2 part flexi adhesive and Bal super flex grout. The grout in a couple of areas has cracked along several tiles and 2/3 of the tiles do have a bit of...
    • Here to learn!
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    • advice ceramic ceramic tile chipboard crack cracked cracking debonding floor floor tiling grout tile tile grout tiles usa
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    tiling over cracked concrete/screed

    I'm planning to tile an old concrete/screed floor in a downstairs bathroom. It's cracked in places and even makes a slight creaking noise in places when you walk on it although there isn't any noticable movement. I was planning to cover it in self-levelling compound before tiling. Would that be...
    • miksto
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding over screed tiling usa
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    cracked tiles in loft conversion

    Some wall tiles in a shower in a loft conversion bathroom have cracked. The tiles have been up for about 2 months. The shower has been used only for the past couple of weeks. Flexibond adhesive/grout were used. The tiles are Fired Earth Architecture tiles. Just wondering whether it's normal for...
    • Unregistered
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding loft tile tiles usa
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    removing 5 cracked tiles with heating wires underneath

    Hi Everyone, I got a call last week and went round to a very nice flat near to me.They had a polished tile floor in the living room and about 5/6 of the tiles (large format) were cracked in different places around the room.He said he had five spare tiles and would I be able to...
    • nelson
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    • crack cracked cracking debonding heating removing tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Cracked grout report advice please

    I was asked to have look at a tiled kitchen floor that was installed by a home improvement company as the grout was cracking even though it had been regrouted. It was put in 8 weeks ago. It was 9.5 mm ply over floorboards. Apart from the ply being too thin imo I wasn't satisfied as to why this...
    • SandyFloor
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    • advice crack cracked cracking debonding grout please tile grout usa
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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