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.

We have no spares and only had them laid 18 months ago. Ceramic floor tiles making a popping and cracking sound. 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. About 2 months ago i noticed a crackling sound when i walked on one of the tiles 14 tiles.

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 an area about 15x15 inches that makes a crackling noise when you step on it. On closer inspection i can see that the tiles are moving very slightly against the grout which is causing the sound.

Bathroom floor tiles grout between tiles cracked and chunks sinking tiles lifting. Not if the subfloor is properly prepped. Floors that make a popping sound. 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.

Do your floors sound hollow when installed. While this doesn t mean your floors are defective there. I looked but saw no crack in the grout around the tiled area. I had a tile floor in my kitchen installed about 5 years ago by a very professional guy.

I have owned it since 2012. Recently i noticed that a few of the floor tiles in the kitchen make a crunching sound when walked on. There is ceramic tile on the floor in the second floor bath. Just so happens about a week ago the crackling sound went away.

My house was built in 1956. 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. It is the original tile with no signs of repair or cracks in the tile or grout. Our floor tiles have started making a crunching sound.

Is there anything else that can be done to quiet the floor. There is a almost unnoticeable bulge where one of the tile comes up. So it is hard to say if a crunching sound is a squeaking sound or what. There are no squeaks just an occasional pop creak that does not repeat after walked on.

A hollow sound when walking on floors is much more common with laminate flooring than it is with vinyl flooring. Pulling them up is not an option.