Crunching Sound Walking On New Tile Floor

While this doesn t mean your floors are defective there.

Crunching sound walking on new tile floor. A hollow sound when walking on floors is much more common with laminate flooring than it is with vinyl flooring. Floors that make a popping sound. Do your floors sound hollow when installed. Recently i noticed that a few of the floor tiles in the kitchen make a crunching sound when walked on.

It is the original tile with no signs of repair or cracks in the tile or grout. Pulling them up is not an option. I have owned it since 2012. There is ceramic tile on the floor in the second floor bath.

New floor installation being prepared reinforced above with deck 2 1 2 screws and below nailed 2 6 supports between joists every 16 or so. About 2 months ago i noticed a crackling sound when i walked on one of the tiles 14 tiles. I looked but saw no crack in the grout around the tiled area. We have no spares and only had them laid 18 months ago.

I had a new bathroom completed just over a year ago. My kitchen floor which is a concrete sub floor with ceramic tiles fitted on top has started making loud popping and cracking. Bathroom floor tiles grout between tiles cracked and chunks sinking tiles lifting. My house was built in 1956.

So it is hard to say if a crunching sound is a squeaking sound or what. Ceramic floor tiles making a popping and cracking sound. If your wood floor is already down this might mean you have to pull up the section that squeaks to repair the subfloor and then put down a new section of flooring. The main reason a floor sounds hollow is when the plank bridges a valley or dip in the subfloor thus creating an air pocket.

There is a almost unnoticeable bulge where one of the tile comes up. Is there anything else that can be done to quiet the floor. I had a tile floor in my kitchen installed about 5 years ago by a very professional guy. Just so happens about a week ago the crackling sound went away.

If the floor has too much deflection that grout can crack among other things. As stated above if the floor is installed over a wood substrate and not placed in a staggered pattern with gaps and not fastened properly floors with ceramic tile installed over them can squeak. On closer inspection i can see that the tiles are moving very slightly against the grout which is causing the sound. Sometimes you might walk across your floors and hear a popping or creaking noise.

Not if the subfloor is properly prepped. Is there anything i can pump in between tiles where grout is if i look it up that would secure the tiles again without pulling them up.