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Fix loose floor tiles without lifting?

  • 15-11-2016 10:46am
    #1
    Logicost31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭


    Hi,
    I've just moved into a house which very annoyingly has a number of loose floor tiles in the kitchen. There's also a few hollow sounding tiles, and a couple that are already cracked! We're hoping to live with the current kitchen as is for a few years until we can put in a whole new kitchen, so hoping to fix this without lifting all the tiles.
    Am I dreaming? I've seen a few videos of fix a floor type products being squeezed into holes drilled in the grout that seeps under the gaps in the tiles.
    Weight applied for 24 hours and tile appears to be fixed in place...

    Has this approach worked for anyone?


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  • #2
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    There must be movement in the floor for the tiles to crack & come loose. Maybe there's no plywood under them.
    For now you can try removing the loose ones. If you get them out without breaking you may be able to clean the back of them and put them back down


  • #3
    Logicost31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭Logicost31


    Thanks. From what I'm gathering by doing work on the house, anything original seems ok, anything the previous owners did was a complete bodged DIY job. I think it's more a case of not enough adhesive, or letting it dry too much before laying the tiles. I did find a few spare tiles at least, so I'll try to lift the worst offenders.


  • #4
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Get a 41/2inch grinder and diamond disc and cut the grouting around a loose or broken tile.. Get someone to hold a hoover hose near the dust syream as you cut to reduce the dust.
    I faced a similar problem a few yrs back. Centre of tiled floor buckled up. Turned out a lot of the tiles were cracked but looked fine at a glance. Ran out of full tiles and had to do a bodge along one edge to finish. Luckily can't be seen and wouldn't be copped too easily.


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