Crunching Sound Walking On New Tile Floor

Sometimes you might walk across your floors and hear a popping or creaking noise.

Crunching sound walking on new tile floor. Our floor tiles have started making a crunching sound. Recently i noticed that a few of the floor tiles in the kitchen make a crunching sound when walked on. About 2 months ago i noticed a crackling sound when i walked on one of the tiles 14 tiles. Pulling them up is not an option.

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. Not if the subfloor is properly prepped. Is there anything else that can be done to quiet the floor. Bathroom floor tiles grout between tiles cracked and chunks sinking tiles lifting.

I looked but saw no crack in the grout around the tiled area. Ceramic floor tiles making a popping and cracking sound. While this doesn t mean your floors are defective there. My kitchen floor which is a concrete sub floor with ceramic tiles fitted on top has started making loud popping and cracking.

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. Floors that make a popping sound. The main reason a floor sounds hollow is when the plank bridges a valley or dip in the subfloor thus creating an air pocket. It is the original tile with no signs of repair or cracks in the tile or grout.

There are no squeaks just an occasional pop creak that does not repeat after walked on. So it is hard to say if a crunching sound is a squeaking sound or what. Just so happens about a week ago the crackling sound went away. 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.

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. Do your floors sound hollow when installed. We have no spares and only had them laid 18 months ago.

A hollow sound when walking on floors is much more common with laminate flooring than it is with vinyl flooring. My house was built in 1956. I had a new bathroom completed just over a year ago. If the floor has too much deflection that grout can crack among other things.

There is a almost unnoticeable bulge where one of the tile comes up. There is ceramic tile on the floor in the second floor bath.