cracking

Evening all...[emoji4] got a floor tiling job to quote for ...9m2 hall, porcelain tiles on a concrete base. The problem is this crack in front of the door- if you zoom in on the photo you'll see the crack & how the floor has dropped about 10mm. The house is around 20yrs old btw. Looking for...

A job im doing, as ufh in a screed with a slc over the top, noticed today that a crack as appeared across a corner about 50 cm in, its only a mm wide at most, but should i be thinking about using a crack bridging membraine befor tiling. Any advice is appreciated.

Hi guys I have a floor lets say 40sqm and one corner is floor boards (say 10sqm), the rest is concrete. Basically the customer has opened up a few rooms into one big one. I Believe I have to use detra matting (obviously on timber floor) in whole room as it's going from one substrate to another...

Hi, I am currently going through the process of buying a house. In the kitchen there is underfloor heating which I have just had confirmed is electric. The kitchen floor is tiled, however nearly all of the tiles are cracked. I am trying to found out how they were cracked but I assume it was...

Hi all, We live in the area of Westerham/Edenbridge. Our house was build 4 years ago and in the past couple years we have long cracks appearing in our kitchen, hallway, dining area, utility and bathroom. We have more than 50 tiles cracked over an area of ~90 sqm. Our Building Insurance has...

Hi,just need some advice,I did a bathroom 10 months ago and have just got a phone call from the customer saying that 6 tiles have hairline cracks,been to have a look and 3 tiles have cracked on either side of the heating mat.The floor area is 4 m2 but the mat is only 1 m2 in front of the...

I work as a self employed tiler and after moving in to my new home decided to re fit the bathroom and install a shower tray and frameless enclosure. I purchased 6 square metres of antique smooth crackle glaze tiles from Walls & Floors.co.uk and used them for the two walls of the shower...

Saw a customer today who had called me in to look at some cracked tiles, I was expecting the worse, but the cracks were very fine and bizarrely the tiles we not loose at all. She doesn't want themn ripped up as has no replacements and doesn't want the hassle, she enquired as to whether you can...

Afternoon all. Have recently said hello to theforum and finally got around to posing some questions on a bathroom refurb. Firstof all, having removed the 30 year old cappuccino coloured bathroom suite withmatching tiles I am left with plastered walls that have a nice selection ofcracks across...

Hi Everyone, Am hoping someone can help with some advice here. I have had 120sq mtrs of honed Opera limestone (600x600) tile laid in a renovation over a new slab. The slab has expansion joints in doorways, round the perimiter and down the centre of the largest room (59m2). After laying the new...

Morning! Bit of advise needed. I've pretty much finished tiling 4 bathrooms and 3 Ensuites in a new build but first day back yesterday and 2 wall tiles have cracked on a low stud wall which makes the sink unit. It's around a cupboard opening and I can see the plaster behind has cracked in line...

Hi there, I am at a loss about how to go about figuring out the reason over 50 tiles on the wall of my newly installed shower have cracked. The tiler has been round and was non-committal about the reasons. Hopefully you guys can help. The bathroom was finished 3 months ago and within...

Hi there I am new to this forum. In june 2014 my bathroom was retiled. Old tiles removed and replaced by Topps Tiles Lenna Grey 40 x 24cm. Two months later and they are cracking,look like inflated in the middle, craking in the edges. Topps Tiles manager came to inspect and initially thinks it...

Hi guys, Been reading the helpful advice here but now need some of my own! I had a tiler in to do my bathroom and long story short he started then disappeared citing family problems. Not much I could do except carry on where he left off and decided to finish myself as had all the tiles and...

Hi This is my first post on here :) I've been getting quotes for laying polished porcelain tiles in a recent extension. We have underfloor heating (wet? - connected to gas boiler, not electric) with a screed over the top. One of the tilers who's quoted says we need anti-crack matting but our...

Hi All, We had a new bathroom fitted just over 2 months including new floor and wall tiles (floor to ceiling wall tiles). The walls tiles were laid on the existing wall substrate as the builder advised it was in good condition. All was fine until 2 weeks when we noticed a tile had several...

I've been asked to tile what looks like a cracked red screed. It could be some sort of water proof membrane and is about an inch thick which has been laid over the original floor. The building is hundreds of years old. It's mostly solid although it's fair to say that some of it is 'floating'...

Hello all, Can anyone help advise what may have caused our bathroom wall tiles to crack? We need to know the reason so that we can resolve this with our builder and who bears the cost of repair. The cracks are on a stud wall that runs along the length of the bath, and the tiles runs from the...

Hi I've noticed that the grout has cracked most of the way down where two walls meet in the area around the shower. It's not a power shower and water isn't running down the wall, but obviously it is getting splashed. See pictures of crack. Second one a close-up, if it helps. What should I do...

Hello I was hoping somebody could help me as both my bathroom and kitchen floor tiles are cracked. These were both laid in October last year. I'll address both floors separately as the tiles are cracking in different ways/places. Bathroom This floor is cement encaustic tiles and i first...