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Posted by John Grabowski on October 6, 2007, 4:31 pm
> I posted once about this but did not realize at the time that it would be
an
> annual event. Every year on the the coldest day of the year the ceramic
> tiles on my kitchen floor pop off with a rather loud band, Judging from
the
> left over tiles, it was an annual affair for the previous homeowner also.
> How do I fix it? Last year I stuck the tiles back down but did not fill
with
> grout. I figured if it was contraction, no grout would give it lots of
room
> to shrink. But...my wife wants grout.
> How do you build an expansion joint into a tile floor?
That reminds me of an incident that occurred before my very eyes. Several
winters ago I was having a conversation in the lobby of a conference center.
Suddenly we both heard this cracking sound and the tile floor next to where
we were standing buckled up and created a bubble about 3 feet long and 4
inches high. I don't know how they corrected the problem, but I had thought
at the time that they probably needed some expansion joints.
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