Cracked tiles

[DHTiling]

Hello and welcome..

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Hi Phil, how`s Oldham these days, I moved from Failsworth 29 yrs ago to sunny South Africa, but now it`s so hot I wish we had some good old Oldham rain.

Hi Ken, Oldham is still wet mate, hope you can find some answers here. Keep the info coming, and I'm sure you will.

 

[White Room]

If it's clay ground it will shrink in the summer and expand in the winter months if and when you have rain..

 

[ken birmingham]

Hi Kilty, The house is tiled right through with no expansion joints, the skirting is tiled. All joints are grouted. The problem lies where one room meets another, the distance of the crack is 6 tiles in a straight line, so as you can imagine it is in the middle of a large tiled area, so lifting all the tiles is unfortunatly out of the question.If I remove the cracked tiles is there any method I could use to stitch across the area where I remove the tiles from.

 

[Mike]

the concrete can be stitch repaired with resin. it sounds like you need expansion joints throughout also

 

[ken birmingham]

Do I buy the resin in a kit, if I used a resin stitch should I also use flexible adhesive & expansion joints in the replaced tiles

 

[ken birmingham]

Do I buy the resin in a kit, if I used a resin stitch should I also use flexible adhesive & expansion joints in the replaced tiles

 

[kilty55]

hi ken.so the tiles are cracking in areas where one room meets another

i would install expansion joints inbetween all rooms where they join

yes use flexible materials imo,is there no other cracking apart from adjoining room areas?

 

[ken birmingham]

Just a few very small ones across doorways.

 

[kilty55]

install expansion joints in these area sif possible this may solve the issue

 

[ken birmingham]

O.K.will try that, Thanks alot for your help.

 

[Mike]

you may be able to get away with a colour match silicon as an expansion joint instead of grout in the doorways

 

[ken birmingham]

O.K. Mike, Thanks alot for your help.