cracks

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...

Hi I have a floor tile problem , fine cracks in the floor tiles recently laid due to flexure. The tiles were laid onto wide tongue and grooved boarding and which was heavily screwed down, flexible recommended adhesive then applied. Should we tile over as we dont want to rip the tiles up.

Hi, Not sure if this is in the right section, but here goes. I had to visit a customers house yesterday, 50 x 50cm porc floor tiles supplied by us, fitted by tiler (not connected to us). Tiles fitted in May 2011, problem became apparent after a few months. Tiles on floor in what was understairs...

Hi , Can anyone help ? I had a kitchen and hallway laid with marble tiles in August 2010, unfortunatley I'm now seing movement in a fair amount of the tiles albeit not a lot of movement but enough to have cracked the grout in some places , and in others the tiles have cracked. The tiles were...

All, I have a specific issue that would benefit from knowledgeable, 3rd party advice We have just had a new limestone floor fitted on to a newly laid concrete floor with wet UFH So far we have found 21 cracked tiles, they are random throughout the tiled area which is a lounge, dining room...

Is it normal for large polished light cappuccino marble tiles 60x40 to have cracks in the front surface of some of these tiles that are supposedly premium quality?

I have just tiled a shower using rapid set Mapei cement and 150mm * 70mm white bonded tiles onto a soid ashlar wall. Having grouted with grey grout I can see that about 10 tiles have hairline cracks. Two of these cracks continue across two tiles so would dictate that cracks were not on the tiles...

Hi wondering if anyone knows of some good product for beginner in cleaning tile that still has grout left in crack . Would really just like to clean up and need to know if need to seal grout never been sealed. THANKS

We had a lovely travertine floor laid throughout our new kitchen and into the conservatory. (50 sq metres!) It was finished about three weeks ago. Unfortunately we have now discovered about five tiles that have cracks appearing in them. One crack - at the conservatory end starts in the grouting...

Hi, My kitchen wall has crack line which has now moved down towards the floor. The wall up to 5 feet is covered with ceramic tiles. and the crack also appeared in them. If i plaster the wall again and replace the tiles with new ones then what is the probability that this crack will not...

Hi I'm new and need of advice! I have a new conservatory completed at the end of last year. After allowing the 100mm concrete to dry, I primed and fixed 50mm Fastwarm insulation boards using Ultra RS flexible adhesive, layed out the underfloor heating cable and covered it in approx 7 mm of...

I am stumped. I am selling my house and the inspector noticed straight cracks through my travertine tile upstairs in my master bath 3 ft apart. What could have caused this? Do I need to replace it all, or is it still safe and just cosmetically not great to look at? Help.... There are about 5...

Hello--I am a homeowner who has recently had a new kitchen installed in a Victorian house, including a new modular travertine floor (724cm x 224cm) over a suspended floor. I have outlined the materials used and where the cracks are--if anyone has any advice, we'd be really grateful, as it has us...

Hi everyone. 18 months ago our building work was complete and the kitchen floor (approx 10m x 5m) tiled in some very expensive Travertine. 12 months ago, cracks appeared running across the floor (across multiple tiles) parallel to the run of the joists and coinciding directly with the edges of...

hi im new to the site. i have got my bathroom fully walled tiled. i had this done about 15 years ago, the tiles are still looking good apart from these hairline cracks that have appeared the tiles were italian. just wondered if anyone knew why they gone like this.> thanks in advance

Well I have a serious problem that ive never experienced on any of my other tiling jobs. Tiled a bathroom floor with flexible SPF and flexible Grout onto 12mm ply screwed to death over chipboard done by builder but have found that after grouting that in a couple of areas ther is small hairline...

WOW.. well done bri mate...:thumbsup:

Hi, floor laid about 2 weeks ago. It looks great. However, I'm not sure whether all things are OK I think that some of the tiles seem to have very small hairline cracks about 2- 3 inches into the side of the tile. There are about 6 tiles with the slight crack. I just need a bit of...

well done mate, third biggest anorak on here i'm guessing

I am going to skim a wall but it has some cracks about 10mm wide, a foot long. What should I use to fill it in before skimming? thanks in advance