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  1. R

    Cracked screed

    Good evening. I looked at a job where the client wants the swimming pool surround tile with UFH. I've done quite a bit of tiling in the house but they've asked if I could tile the swimming pool area. It's currently got a grubby bit of carpet laid over the existing screed. The problem is some...
    • rj1884
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding screed usa
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    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  2. J

    Cracked travertine over Wet UFH - help

    I would be grateful for any advice you could give me. I have recently installed 600x450 travertine tiles in a fairly large conservatory 6.5m x 4.5m over wet UFH. Used 8-10mm beds of flexible adhesive and flexible grout with 3mm spacers. My father did the installation. He's a bricklayer so is...
    • Jason20
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding help over travertine ufh usa wet wet ufh
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  3. widler

    Cracked tiles

    How's about this Nothing to do with me,it's a house I'm working on,he wants me to re tile bathroom,every wall tile,and I mean every,has a crack in it
  4. J

    Tiles cracking where screed slabs meet (wet underfloor heating)

    Hi all, Following some excellent advice from you in 2012, I successfully laid approximately 40 sq m of ceramic floor tiles in our new kitchen, garden room and granny flat. All was fine for a while, but then the tiles cracked across the opening between the garden room and kitchen, a distance...
    • Johneb
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    • aus crack cracking debonding floor floor tiling heating screed slabs tile tiles ufh underfloor underfloor heating usa where
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  5. W

    cracked grout

    Hi everyone, I have the following scenario on a job: Shower over bath with bath screen My client had bathroom refurbed 2 years ago bath is leaking from cracked grout The bath was either cut into the wall or plasterboarded down to the bath (unnecessarily as plenty of width in room.) This is...
    • Wood's better
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding grout tile grout usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  6. J

    Cracked mapei revonation screed

    Hi all, i posted this on the underfloor heating forum, but have had no reply yet. last week I laid loose wire UFH on top of cement insulation boards, and then laid mapei renovation screed over the top. I went back today, and all seems well apart from one area that has only just covered the...
    • Jimwilts
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    • adhesive aus crack cracked cracking debonding grout mapei mapei adhesive mapei grout screed usa
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  7. U

    Cracked Tiles in Loft Conversion

    Loft extension completed in the summer, we have large tiles in the bathroom and they have a hairline crack from floor to ceiling through 6 of them The builder says it is 'settling' issues We are not convinced At a minimum what should be done? Tiles removed and reapplied? Is it potentially a...
    • Unregistered
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding loft tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  8. G

    Biscuit coming out of crackle glaze tiles

    Hi A few months back I installed some crackle glaze tiles with a red biscuit. Prior to fixing, each tile was sealed with Aquamix Ultra-Solv. I have found that the surface of the tiles is covered with a red dust the same colour as the biscuit and I can only assume that it is the biscuit coming...
  9. P

    Cracked Bathroom Tiles on Plywood

    Hi, I hoping someone here can help as you seem to know what you're doing more than my builder! We had a new bathroom installed a couple of months ago. The builder replaced one of the internal walls with a plywood wall. Now there is a crack running horizontally right down the length of the wall...
    • Ptolomy
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    • aus bathroom bathroom tiles crack cracked cracking debonding plywood tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Best Bathroom Tiles
  10. M

    Grout joints cracking

    Evening 1st time poster, so here goes I have a 2 part floor, half on the original screed which has an electric matting system(supplied and fitted by the electrician) and half on the new screed which has the water system in the screed, the floor was laid about a year ago. The new screeded area...
  11. R

    Crackle Glazed 75 x 150 ceramics

    As a rule, do you seal before grouting or after, neither or both? Tiles and grout both white. Cheers.
    • Rookery
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    • aus ceramic ceramic tile ceramics crack cracking debonding usa
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  12. N

    Mitering crackle glazed tiles - Fired Earth Retro Metro

    Some advice wanted please. Is it possible to get a decent mitre joint with crackle glazed tiles? Had a practice with one of the Fired Earth Retro Metro tiles today on current bathroom job. The crackles near the cut line broke out and it looked very messy. Admittedly the blade on my diamond...
    • newplumb
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    • aus crack cracking debonding metro metro tiles tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  13. B

    Grout keeps cracking on new tile floor installation

    Hi there First of all, I am VERY happy to have found this forum, as I have been pulling my hair out over this issue. I'll apologise now if this explanation is elongated, but better to have more information than less right? Ok, this is my situation. I have been renovating my house, and had one...
    • Bexstarr
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    • aus crack cracking debonding floor floor tiling grout installation new build tile tile grout usa
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  14. S

    Cracked tiles?

    Hello everyone. I have an issue with a bathroom floor I have laid. Bathroom floor was rotten and replaced by the joiner, who was also acting as ‘sort of ‘clerk of works on this residential refit. He said the floor was solid and all fixed. I could see it was overlaid with 18mm ply, so believed...
    • sean@silverfern
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  15. R

    Cracked porcelain

    Hello. I've uploaded some photos which I hope you can see of a job I've just been to look at. Cracks like the ones in the photos have appeared in various places in a large entrance hall in this house. The crack doesn't follow one line and some are in and around the door threshold/frames and...
    • rj1884
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding porcelain porcelain tile porcelain tiles usa
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  16. J

    Problems with porcelain tiles cracking

    Doing a master bathroom with 600 x600 porcelain tiles. having a problem with tiles cracking either during process of doing a rectangular cut out for push flush or even days after fixed. this has happened before with others tiles but not all porcelain. cutting with a good quality blade . maybe...
    • jonnyc
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    • aus crack cracking debonding porcelain porcelain tile porcelain tiles problems tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  17. I

    Terracota tile with a cracked glaze

    Is there a special way of laying these..ie soaking them..as I was fitting them for a kitchen splash back you could here them making a cracking noise..they even made the noise when I was holding them which., I assume is expansion due to heat and moisture..they went on the wall fine but a bit...
    • ian158
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding tile usa
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  18. C

    Cracked screed floor.

    Have a problem, floor screed is crumbling and there is a crack right in the middle of the floor. There's also old carpet adhesive along the perimeter of the room(hall). I want to tile over. Any advice as to how to go about it, please.
    • costachubb
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    • aus crack cracked cracking debonding floor floor tiling screed usa
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  19. 2

    crack mat on conctere?

    Hi, Would you still need to use a ditra or similar crack mat with marble on a concrete floor?
    • 2020Tiling
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    • aus crack cracking debonding usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  20. B

    Grout line cracking

    H all iv recently re tiled the whole of my bathroom floor and wall. Iv now noticed that the grout has started to crack where the floor meets the wall. I put 6mm no more ply down onto the boards followed by a flexible rapid set adhesive with porcelain tiles. Does anyone know why this coud be...
    • Bradma9
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    • aus crack cracking debonding grout line tile grout usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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