Tile on slab floor is buckling upwards and coming loose

Recently, I worked on a repair to a large tiled floor where 12 tiles were coming loose and buckling upward in a bedroom and 7 tiles were coming loose in the formal dinning room.  The homeowner asked me, “why is this happening?”  This house had over 1200 sq. ft. of floor tiled installed over a…

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Cracked slab floor

Cracked slab floor

We received a call from a homeowner about a row of cracked tiles in their bathroom floor.  The cracked tiles were due to a slab crack directly under the tiles. When re-setting tile over a crack like this its important to use a flexible setting material.  Most membrane or elastic-type setting products will work over slab…

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