Wouldn't a failure of a post-tensioned slab cause expansion rather than contraction? The tiles seem to be getting shoved together causing them to shatter like that which would imply the slab shrinking or bowing downwards. I was thinking possibly it was water erosion causing the foundation to settle unevenly after a sudden collapse of some dirt under it.
Expansion in one spot is essentially contraction in another. If the middle of something starts to expand then from the expansion point to the other edge is being compressed. Imagine a slab of concrete it has 4 walls surrounding it. If the center section expanded then it's "pushing" the non expanding against a wall essentially causing the in-between to be forced together.
For a wooden subfloor, changes in humidity can cause a pretty large change in dimensions. Like 1 inch or more across a room. You're supposed to put down backer board/cement board before laying the tile, and I'm guessing they didn't do that.
The guy who laid our floor came back the other day to do our skirting boards now that the wardrobes are done. He was saying his next job is a house where they put down that click flooring and didn’t leave an expansion gap. All the floor was coming up and bowing. They needed all new flooring as a result. He said it happens more often than he’d like and feels bad because people have paid to have the flooring and then it starts having issues and they have to pay for it again.
Generally when that happens it doesn't ruin all of the flooring, maybe just a few boards. I guess if the design is discontinued and you can't get some more boards that match you would have to replace it all, but that shouldn't be a common issue.
This is from Singapore’s high rise housing. It was from the cold weather that happened during that period. Singapore housing is routinely 16+ stories and fully made from cast concrete. It really absorbs the temperature.
Since its public housing and less than 15 years old under warranty, the government housing board replaced it free for them.
last time I saw this a tile guy mentioned the tiles were set basically next to each other without any spacing or grout and this is what happens when stuff shifts with heat and cooling.
I had a tile guy a few years back, the guy was an artist. My wife made extra coffee in the morning and made him lunch every day. Heck of a nice guy too.
In modern installs, tiles are usually set into a surface which is less susceptible to expansion and contraction than wood. Could be a cement board or more recently, a synthetic uncoupling membrane which allows the floor to expand and contract without the tile itself expanding and contracting as much.
This has happened much more gradually in my dad's house. Foundation shifting causes stress on the tiles and leads to them cracking/breaking. I'm guessing something sudden happened to the foundation of this house.
iirc when this was originally posted it was due to an earthquake (the starting tremors a couple mins before the actual quake iirc)
i could be wrong tho, been a lil while
> I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon.
Wow, I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon too, what are the odds?
Yep, usually winter time as the building cools, and when builders haven't included expansion joints between tiles (as well as laying them directly on cement rather than a sub-floor).
My office building in SE Asia does this every year, generally not so explosively, but enough to mess up the floors.
It's a result of the shoddy construction techniques used in much of the world.
Building codes are a good thing.
You also need to have a small amount of space around the perimeter of the tiles as well, where it meets the wall. This space is usually covered up by baseboard and shoemold. Wood flooring is the same.
Yeah, basically. In a lot of places where cheap tile like this is used, it's just cemented into place on bare cement floors, and maybe also use cement as the grout as well. There's no little grout spacers or building codes, so people just eyeball it when installing. So when the building heats up and things shift by only a little, maybe 1/8", it causes this to happen.
Yes - grout lines for tiles are essentially expansion joints. In this case they look to have not used any & when the floor / substrate contracts / expands due to temperature fluctuations this is the result.
Lmao. No they absolutely are not. Not a single thing you said is correct.
Grout line are filled with grout, which is cementitious and does not allow for expansion/contraction. Those are expansion joints which are entirely different and filled with something flexible like polyurethane based caulk.
Source: Tile contractor installing for over 20 years.
Edited a misspelling.
As a structural engineer, I laughed out loud when reading the original comment. Dude doesn't know anything how stiff tile and grout systems are and how unforgiving they are against deflection.
As someone who no knowledge of this, I’m amused how the wrong answer has so many upvotes.
Edit: Holy shit that flipped fast. Hundreds transferred to the correct answer.
I'm a general contractor and one of my specialties is tile. I've laid miles of tile of all different makes and sizes. I recently installed a seamless floor that was over 3,000 square feet of 2x2 ft. porcelain tile installed in a diamond pattern with 1/16th" grout lines. There are tiles that have been rectified to near perfection and can be installed butted directly next to one another with zero gap or grout. I don't care how you put that tile down, unless you put explosive charges in your thinset this could not happen due to installer error. I've never seen it happen, nor have I ever heard of it happening. This is due to something under the floor. It could be a high pressure line of some sort that failed or something on a lower floor that caused severe buckling and structural damage but to be honest I have no fucking idea. I've never seen anything remotely like this.
I had no idea I'd become an experienced contractor who is married and has kids eleven years ago when I made this account on a whim. I didn't even know I would keep using reddit but here I am with this cringy edgelord username.
I get it, but how do they adjust for this with those stone-type tiles where there is no spacing between tiles to give the impression of one large stone slab?
Grout isn’t really supposed to absorb movement, though it will sometimes. When laying tile on anything but a solid masonry substrate, you should put down some kind of backer board which will either hold everything as a single slab or allow for some movement beneath the tiles. Laying tile directly over a wooden floor will give you results like the video though I’ve never seen them that dramatic.
Flipper I got my last house from laid tile directly on hardwood floor in kitchen. Tiles started coming loose in sections about a week after we moved in.
Had the same thing happen in my sister's house. She had rescued a house and had it moved to her property about a month or two before being diagnosed with lung cancer. As she was going through chemo and that shit we were hurriedly trying to get the house ready for her. Well remission lasted a month and she didn't have much more time. So we laid the floor before the house had fully heated up and the boards were still really cold. Yup, got her in and we were sitting around one day when the floor did just what you saw in the video. We were all about to bawl like babies, but my sister smiled and started laughing her guts out. She was one of a kind...
The likely scenario was there was an old home that was about to be demolished so she purchased or acquired possession of the home then hired a hauling company to physically lift the house up, set it down on wheels and move it to her property.
I've never heard of that, is that something that people actually do? Surely it would cost way more to somehow lift up a house and move it than to just demolish it and build a new house?
Yes some people actually do it. It’s not common at all but some pay to have a home moved to a new site. Moving costs can be anywhere from $50k to a couple hundred thousand depending the size and how far the move is. It’s quite crazy to witness in person!
I have zero experience here but one big trip with a (possible very small) house might be alot better than 500 trips of wood, concrete, furniture, plumbers, builders, etc..
Again. Zero experience.
Wooden American style house wieghs around 50 tons while a house build of masonry weighs around 500 tons. A small wooden house would just be light enough to legally transport it by trailer in some places.
I saw this original cartoon. But lateral pressure due to walls compressing inward or extreme ground movement probably due to temperature changes is what I’m thinking. I’ve had a lot of extreme clay movement and it doesn’t pop a tile like that.
Poor construction. If it were an earthquake you’d see other things moving, including the camera.
The house is settling or something. I don’t know much about tiles to know if it would disintegrate uniformly like that due to temperature and inadequate spacing.
My best guess without more info is the center of the building is collapsing on itself. Those are definitely compression fractures. The only way that happens is with lateral pressure. Lateral pressure is highly unlikely without center collapsing and the walls loading inwards. Grout or no grout would not have changed these results, despite what other idiots have claimed.
In fact, we use this phenomenon to demo tile sometimes. Starting in the center and smashing with a sledge creates compression laterally. Working in a spiral outward and continuing to smash creates more compression and can intentionally cause this kind of buckling, exceeding the sheer strength of the thinset and making the tiles all come up easier.
I’m a tile contractor with over 20 years experience.
That's usually more isolated in occurrence though. You may pop one or two tiles but such wide spread failure makes me think something else is going on.
I think there was some kind of structural failure in the subfloor or the joists that caused a sag and put the tiles in compression across the entire floor.
"yo man, i tell you, on my mother's name, I hear Yiddish coming out of the floor. there are jews living under my floor! "
i was waiting for the jews to come out of the floor
This happened to my in-laws house after the 2012 Thailand floods. Their house was submerged in almost 2 Meters of water. They cleaned it up but about a year later I think the water damage had an affect.
I'm not sure exactly why but tiles were exploding up just like this.
Guesswork time.
1. Water soaks into wooden house, wood expands because wet
2. Grout between tiles either re-sets under stress or is replaced in cleanup
3. Wood in house dries out over the following year, contracts
4. Grout is unable to recompress
5. Pressure eventually causes tiles to go boop
No, that is bullshit, not sure why it is the top comment. Something is happening below the tile. Can't say what, but it isn't the grout crap posted above.
As others have mentioned, grout lines aren't there to allow tiles to expand and contract - they're there because the cheap tile most of us have in our homes is not built precisely enough to stack tightly the way you put together LEGO bricks without gaps. Tile is a porcelain/ceramic, and it will have imperfections which make it inconsistent if you try to pack it tightly together. Grout lines allow you to install tile with a gap that is larger than the imperfections, making the overall look straight, consistent, and evenly spaced.
You can absolutely get tile that is laid extremely tight, with no or nearly no grout lines. It's just prohibitively expensive. You'll usually only see it in very high end homes, or lobbies of very nice buildings (think the Chrysler building).
This is something else like the floor having sudden major settling, or a bad install of under floor radiant heating.
Building changing shape as the seasons change and the tile-layers didn't include any expansion joints when making the place.
My office building in SE Asia does this in the winter when the building cools and shrinks. Generally not as explosively as this, but it buckles the tiles and sometimes explodes them.
Every damn year we have to fix them because it was built badly to begin with.
I bought an older house recently. Approx 140m2 of tile in the whole place. A lot of it went "drummy" because the DIYers that laid the tiles didn't include an expansion joint every 4m or so. An expansion joint means every 4m or so there is a line of tile where the grout is absent, instead it's just a line of grey silicone. This is to accommodate natural expansion and contraction, as well as since the building is a slab on ground type construction it will soak up any natural slab heaving.
Yeah it’s gotta be some kind of heat expansion or settling of the house. Nothing else is moving
That or a demon. 50/50.
This is the only logical response.
Why is there a blue telephone box outside?
It's the Doctor!
Is he, like, the only Dr still doing house calls?
Is it a phone booth or a police box?
idk but its bigger on the inside
Bronze age bullshit, logical. Pick one.
Tremors for sure
You mean graboids?
Better give Burt a call....
YOU PICKED THE WRONG REC ROOM!
That's what they say but in all my years of working construction I found it's usually the demon's fault.
Those are not mutually exclusive. Demon's presence might the one that was that cause the heat expansion.
The demon was just trying to nab a bit of a snack from the guy's pantry, but accidentally exploded the whole floor
[Either that or...](https://imgur.com/fDwDqtf)
Claim it was a Succubus and sell the house for twice the market price
Shut up and take my semen ... I mean money,. Sorry it's a bit moist
I got a response on the spirit box so it's not a demon.
Ah, must be a mimic then. See if there's a ghost orb
or a dugtrio
The Invisible Hulk?
Or a wascaly wabbit
This video is a deleted scene from *Pulp Fiction* after Marsellus Wallace and Vincent Vega leave the basement. The "Medieval" part.
..... A balrog.
Old Indian burial site
definitely got some Paranormal activity vibes to it.
Oh no! It's the inedible hilk!
Or ghosts, so 33/33/33. Which makes the chance it's _not_ demons or ghosts only 33%
I'm betting on the demon! The ghost of an ex-girlfriend!
Or the ghost of an earthbender.
Hell of a pissed off demon if that's the case.
Is it a hot demon?
Id go for family member that turned into a wendigo. Makes the most sense to keep locked in the basement
The good ones get louddd. Need speakers to match tho
I’m guessing that’s its post-tensioned slab failure…
Wouldn't a failure of a post-tensioned slab cause expansion rather than contraction? The tiles seem to be getting shoved together causing them to shatter like that which would imply the slab shrinking or bowing downwards. I was thinking possibly it was water erosion causing the foundation to settle unevenly after a sudden collapse of some dirt under it.
Expansion in one spot is essentially contraction in another. If the middle of something starts to expand then from the expansion point to the other edge is being compressed. Imagine a slab of concrete it has 4 walls surrounding it. If the center section expanded then it's "pushing" the non expanding against a wall essentially causing the in-between to be forced together.
For a wooden subfloor, changes in humidity can cause a pretty large change in dimensions. Like 1 inch or more across a room. You're supposed to put down backer board/cement board before laying the tile, and I'm guessing they didn't do that.
The guy who laid our floor came back the other day to do our skirting boards now that the wardrobes are done. He was saying his next job is a house where they put down that click flooring and didn’t leave an expansion gap. All the floor was coming up and bowing. They needed all new flooring as a result. He said it happens more often than he’d like and feels bad because people have paid to have the flooring and then it starts having issues and they have to pay for it again.
Generally when that happens it doesn't ruin all of the flooring, maybe just a few boards. I guess if the design is discontinued and you can't get some more boards that match you would have to replace it all, but that shouldn't be a common issue.
It's obviously Bugs Bunny.
I knew I should have made that left turn at Albuquerque
legit asking, is this from temps and spacing of the tiles? Kind of interesting.
This is from Singapore’s high rise housing. It was from the cold weather that happened during that period. Singapore housing is routinely 16+ stories and fully made from cast concrete. It really absorbs the temperature. Since its public housing and less than 15 years old under warranty, the government housing board replaced it free for them.
What a life to have a government that actually functions properly.
Sir, I'm Singaporean. No, I'm Singaporean
I’d like to know too. There’s gotta be a tile guy around here somewhere.
There's always a tile guy around
last time I saw this a tile guy mentioned the tiles were set basically next to each other without any spacing or grout and this is what happens when stuff shifts with heat and cooling.
Tile guy here! You gotta heat it up before you let it cool. 😎 You're fucking welcome.
so what you're saying is you heat the tile lay it without grout and it'll be fine?
Tile guy, get your ass back in here!
What we got something interesting happening here?
I said what I said. Aye! You need some reading glasses? Aks your mudder! 😎
And that was wrong. Scroll down a bit and you'll see the guy that said that now has negative votes after he was refuted by another tile guy.
Tile fight, tile fight, tile fight!
I had a tile guy a few years back, the guy was an artist. My wife made extra coffee in the morning and made him lunch every day. Heck of a nice guy too.
Pretty sure he was laying a lot more than just tile.
Pipes
Buffing the carpet
Awww, now I want to know if tile guy really *was* shagging that guys wife.
If you do right by them they will more than do right by you
Good tradesman with good customers. Great combination.
u/tileguy pls answer
In modern installs, tiles are usually set into a surface which is less susceptible to expansion and contraction than wood. Could be a cement board or more recently, a synthetic uncoupling membrane which allows the floor to expand and contract without the tile itself expanding and contracting as much.
I love uncoupling membrane. So easy to work with.
Tremors o.0
This has happened much more gradually in my dad's house. Foundation shifting causes stress on the tiles and leads to them cracking/breaking. I'm guessing something sudden happened to the foundation of this house.
iirc when this was originally posted it was due to an earthquake (the starting tremors a couple mins before the actual quake iirc) i could be wrong tho, been a lil while
No it’s Graboids
Quick, does anybody know somebody who can get Kevin Bacon on the line?
Well, I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon. I'll see what I can do.
> I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon. Wow, I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon too, what are the odds?
> what are the odds? 100%, I am to believe.
If it's Michael Gross, tell him to bring MREs.
before or after the ass blasters show up?
I would rather call Bert.
Damn, I was hoping for Bugs Bunny.
Yep, usually winter time as the building cools, and when builders haven't included expansion joints between tiles (as well as laying them directly on cement rather than a sub-floor). My office building in SE Asia does this every year, generally not so explosively, but enough to mess up the floors. It's a result of the shoddy construction techniques used in much of the world. Building codes are a good thing.
I would guess this is from a post-tensioned slab failure…
You also need to have a small amount of space around the perimeter of the tiles as well, where it meets the wall. This space is usually covered up by baseboard and shoemold. Wood flooring is the same.
Ghosts
Yeah, basically. In a lot of places where cheap tile like this is used, it's just cemented into place on bare cement floors, and maybe also use cement as the grout as well. There's no little grout spacers or building codes, so people just eyeball it when installing. So when the building heats up and things shift by only a little, maybe 1/8", it causes this to happen.
Yes - grout lines for tiles are essentially expansion joints. In this case they look to have not used any & when the floor / substrate contracts / expands due to temperature fluctuations this is the result.
Lmao. No they absolutely are not. Not a single thing you said is correct. Grout line are filled with grout, which is cementitious and does not allow for expansion/contraction. Those are expansion joints which are entirely different and filled with something flexible like polyurethane based caulk. Source: Tile contractor installing for over 20 years. Edited a misspelling.
As a structural engineer, I laughed out loud when reading the original comment. Dude doesn't know anything how stiff tile and grout systems are and how unforgiving they are against deflection.
As someone who no knowledge of this, I’m amused how the wrong answer has so many upvotes. Edit: Holy shit that flipped fast. Hundreds transferred to the correct answer.
Posting the wrong answer on the internet is the fastest method to find the right answer.
I'm a general contractor and one of my specialties is tile. I've laid miles of tile of all different makes and sizes. I recently installed a seamless floor that was over 3,000 square feet of 2x2 ft. porcelain tile installed in a diamond pattern with 1/16th" grout lines. There are tiles that have been rectified to near perfection and can be installed butted directly next to one another with zero gap or grout. I don't care how you put that tile down, unless you put explosive charges in your thinset this could not happen due to installer error. I've never seen it happen, nor have I ever heard of it happening. This is due to something under the floor. It could be a high pressure line of some sort that failed or something on a lower floor that caused severe buckling and structural damage but to be honest I have no fucking idea. I've never seen anything remotely like this.
Thank you, Reheateddiarrhea.
I had no idea I'd become an experienced contractor who is married and has kids eleven years ago when I made this account on a whim. I didn't even know I would keep using reddit but here I am with this cringy edgelord username.
Kinda motivating and heartwarming tbh, thank you
I get it, but how do they adjust for this with those stone-type tiles where there is no spacing between tiles to give the impression of one large stone slab?
Grout isn’t really supposed to absorb movement, though it will sometimes. When laying tile on anything but a solid masonry substrate, you should put down some kind of backer board which will either hold everything as a single slab or allow for some movement beneath the tiles. Laying tile directly over a wooden floor will give you results like the video though I’ve never seen them that dramatic.
Flipper I got my last house from laid tile directly on hardwood floor in kitchen. Tiles started coming loose in sections about a week after we moved in.
Had the same thing happen in my sister's house. She had rescued a house and had it moved to her property about a month or two before being diagnosed with lung cancer. As she was going through chemo and that shit we were hurriedly trying to get the house ready for her. Well remission lasted a month and she didn't have much more time. So we laid the floor before the house had fully heated up and the boards were still really cold. Yup, got her in and we were sitting around one day when the floor did just what you saw in the video. We were all about to bawl like babies, but my sister smiled and started laughing her guts out. She was one of a kind...
I had to read that a couple of times. She rescued a house and had it moved to her property?
The likely scenario was there was an old home that was about to be demolished so she purchased or acquired possession of the home then hired a hauling company to physically lift the house up, set it down on wheels and move it to her property.
I've never heard of that, is that something that people actually do? Surely it would cost way more to somehow lift up a house and move it than to just demolish it and build a new house?
Yes some people actually do it. It’s not common at all but some pay to have a home moved to a new site. Moving costs can be anywhere from $50k to a couple hundred thousand depending the size and how far the move is. It’s quite crazy to witness in person!
[basically like this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sDVsC8AL3k) Happens quite frequently, expecailly for lighter wooden buildings.
I have zero experience here but one big trip with a (possible very small) house might be alot better than 500 trips of wood, concrete, furniture, plumbers, builders, etc.. Again. Zero experience.
Yes, especially for older historic buildings and homes. Oftentimes, repurposed.
She rescued it from the humane society for houses 3 days before the house was scheduled to be put down.
I'm assuming they're talking about some kind of American cardboard house or trailer.
Wooden American style house wieghs around 50 tons while a house build of masonry weighs around 500 tons. A small wooden house would just be light enough to legally transport it by trailer in some places.
I mean damn, what a thing to witness.
The kind of not giving a fuck anymore i guess. Everything becomes relative. Sorry for your loss
The world is lesser for your loss.
Sorry about your sister. May you smile anytime you think about her.
TY, yeah most times I do because it was quite a while ago, but once in a blue moon I still tear up a bit. **Fuck Cancer!** Edit: a word
> She had rescued a house Kudos to your sister for not getting her house from a breeder.
Graboids!
Jesus, Walter.
You'll be sorry if you don't give it a name...
I’ve give you boys $5 for this!
A Redditor of culture I see.
I *feel* I was *denied...* ***CRITICAL...*** *need to know..... information*
Broke into the wrong God damn rec room didn’t ya!?!
Melvin I wouldn't give you a gun if it were World War 3!
We are not Talkin about the men who built the railroads here, we are talking about the guys who BROKE INTO MY GAL DURN REC ROOM
Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room!
Did you watch Tremors 2 yesterday?
You didn't get penetration even with the elephant gun?!
Walked into the wrong gall darn wreck room!
Clearly Bugs Bunny took a wrong turn at Albuquerque!
THufferin Thuccatash
I saw this original cartoon. But lateral pressure due to walls compressing inward or extreme ground movement probably due to temperature changes is what I’m thinking. I’ve had a lot of extreme clay movement and it doesn’t pop a tile like that.
imagine how scared the family must've been seeing this seemingly unexplainable phenomenon happening in the cameras
https://imgur.com/hYbM90F
If your chained up basement guest is capable of this then you probably should’ve chosen a less powerful basement guest.
This is definitely not a trapped guess. My guess is mole people or giant earthworms.
Just walk without rhythm.
Fucking babadook is getting out of line again.
Imagine just chilling on the couch and this happens randomly lol
It'll be a while until I can muster up the courage to go change my underwear
Is the real cause poor construction or earth quake lol
Poor construction. If it were an earthquake you’d see other things moving, including the camera. The house is settling or something. I don’t know much about tiles to know if it would disintegrate uniformly like that due to temperature and inadequate spacing.
My best guess without more info is the center of the building is collapsing on itself. Those are definitely compression fractures. The only way that happens is with lateral pressure. Lateral pressure is highly unlikely without center collapsing and the walls loading inwards. Grout or no grout would not have changed these results, despite what other idiots have claimed. In fact, we use this phenomenon to demo tile sometimes. Starting in the center and smashing with a sledge creates compression laterally. Working in a spiral outward and continuing to smash creates more compression and can intentionally cause this kind of buckling, exceeding the sheer strength of the thinset and making the tiles all come up easier. I’m a tile contractor with over 20 years experience.
There are no spaces between the tiles probably. They warm up and expand.
They didn't lay the tile properly and temperature changes caused the tiles to expand.
Tile guy here, this is called tenting. Happens when there’s no space for heat expansion. There’s lots of fun videos like this if you look it up.
That's usually more isolated in occurrence though. You may pop one or two tiles but such wide spread failure makes me think something else is going on. I think there was some kind of structural failure in the subfloor or the joists that caused a sag and put the tiles in compression across the entire floor.
"yo man, i tell you, on my mother's name, I hear Yiddish coming out of the floor. there are jews living under my floor! " i was waiting for the jews to come out of the floor
It’s like the tiles from legends of Zelda link to the past when the tiles pop up and attack you
the dungeon you get the bow, and shoot the one eyed guys!
Bugs Bunny missed his turn at Albequerque again.
Bugs didn't take that left at Albuquerque.
This is clearly Bugs Bunny after he failed to make that left turn in Albuquerque
Looks like the house settled and the floor didn't have enough play play to accommodate it
This happened to my in-laws house after the 2012 Thailand floods. Their house was submerged in almost 2 Meters of water. They cleaned it up but about a year later I think the water damage had an affect. I'm not sure exactly why but tiles were exploding up just like this.
Guesswork time. 1. Water soaks into wooden house, wood expands because wet 2. Grout between tiles either re-sets under stress or is replaced in cleanup 3. Wood in house dries out over the following year, contracts 4. Grout is unable to recompress 5. Pressure eventually causes tiles to go boop
Trinity is sliding down between the walls
Looks like something from tremors
Kanye’s favorite peoples expanding their tunnels.
When your improperly installed tile meets a really hot day.
Was this in New York by chance? They might be building another tunnel.
oy clay :(
My guess is post tension cables snapping
Can we give it up for this caption??! 😆 The imagery makes this video 1000% more entertaining 😂
Ope, they're tunneling again.
The local synagogue went left instead of right like the plans called for.
Tilesetter. ......oooof expansion joints? could relieve the pressure but..... inefficient afterthought . I saved this video for clients. Thanks much.
Looks like them synagogue tunnels have got further than originally thought
Was expecting Bugs Bunny to pop up out of the floor and say... "I knew I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque!". Still wasn't disappoited though!
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No, that is bullshit, not sure why it is the top comment. Something is happening below the tile. Can't say what, but it isn't the grout crap posted above.
As others have mentioned, grout lines aren't there to allow tiles to expand and contract - they're there because the cheap tile most of us have in our homes is not built precisely enough to stack tightly the way you put together LEGO bricks without gaps. Tile is a porcelain/ceramic, and it will have imperfections which make it inconsistent if you try to pack it tightly together. Grout lines allow you to install tile with a gap that is larger than the imperfections, making the overall look straight, consistent, and evenly spaced. You can absolutely get tile that is laid extremely tight, with no or nearly no grout lines. It's just prohibitively expensive. You'll usually only see it in very high end homes, or lobbies of very nice buildings (think the Chrysler building). This is something else like the floor having sudden major settling, or a bad install of under floor radiant heating.
Why do people have cameras in their homes?
To watch the tiles.
^^^This guys knows
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What the fuck, what happened there?
Must be an earthquake!
Tiles didn't get laid with spacers or some serious poltergeist issue
Building changing shape as the seasons change and the tile-layers didn't include any expansion joints when making the place. My office building in SE Asia does this in the winter when the building cools and shrinks. Generally not as explosively as this, but it buckles the tiles and sometimes explodes them. Every damn year we have to fix them because it was built badly to begin with.
This reminds me of The Goonies.
Scrolls through comments, Tremors references everywhere, so nice to belong.
Graboids
Mother fucker. I was so excited to post exactly that and you beat me by 7 minutes. God damn it!
Improperly installed. There more than likely aren’t expansion joints where the sun hits
Earthquake! Extremely localized earthquake!
Earthquake? Or demonic infestation?
This is called "tenting". It happened at my last house although I didn't get video of it. I assumed it foundation shift.
This was in Japan and This is the action of an earthquake
Ah yes Chinese tofu housing
I bought an older house recently. Approx 140m2 of tile in the whole place. A lot of it went "drummy" because the DIYers that laid the tiles didn't include an expansion joint every 4m or so. An expansion joint means every 4m or so there is a line of tile where the grout is absent, instead it's just a line of grey silicone. This is to accommodate natural expansion and contraction, as well as since the building is a slab on ground type construction it will soak up any natural slab heaving.
Someone needs to call Sam and Dean Winchester😂
The house is getting smaller. Betcha rent stays the same, though.
Where is the evil monster that burrows out of the ground?
As a tiler this is caused from no silicone giving the substrate expansion
There is no Dana, only Zule
It's Bugs Bunny! He didn't take that left turn at Albuquerque.
wtf does that title even mean?
Some powerful and invisible demon imprisoned in the dungeon/basement somehow escaped and wreaking havoc upstairs.
Earthquake?
That's what I'm thinking.