cracking

I recently had my whole ground floor tiled as part of a larger renovation project. On moving back in I noticed a tile with a crack in it which the contractor said would be replaced. Over the course of the next two months, a few more tiles developed cracks in them and a few lifted off the floor...

I have used dark grey grout with crackle metro tiles, the idea being that the grout stains the cracks before applying sealant and gives it an aged look. However, the tiles have stained very irregularly: some tiles just atined in patches, some have not taken stain at all. Any ideas what i can do...

Hi and thanks for letting me post on here. Sorry if this is a long post, trying to just do the main points as it's been a bit of a nightmare. The problem is with the wall tiles in our new bathroom. It was tiled last July with British Ceramic Tile V&A tiles. These are ceramic 152mm x 152mm. We...

Hi, the company that installed my UFH omitted to commission it. I found out about this step after tiling was done. I want to take all measures in order to prevent any cracking/lifting, please offer me some advice. Details of my setup: - cement+sand screed laid April 2018 - around 20 sqm...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.