Banging Sound On Tile Floor Different Areas

Hearing popping sounds is not so good.

Banging sound on tile floor different areas. Sometimes you might walk across your floors and hear a popping or creaking noise. The house is about 30 yrs old and one side of this bathroom floor is about 2 inch lower on the bath faucet side. This bathroom is located on the 2nd floor and originally had a cast iron tub and ceramic tiles. I had my kitchen remodeled with the floor tiled first on a wooden subfloor and cabinets installed the following day.

This was in 2011 the grout has come off in different places and i can hear a crunchy noise when i step on a tile at one location. The tile installer used metal lath stapled to the subfloor with at best 1 4 mortar bed with thin adhesive per visual inspection at a removed air register. The pattern changes in a couple of rooms but there in no hard boundary between the patterns. A low pitched sound can also occur and not signify there is a problem the type of sound you hear also depends on the configuration of the tile assembly for example when tile is installed over a less dense substrate as in the case of wood a non bonded mortar bed a sound control mat or other membrane or over a steel framed wall.

On these 9 36 porcelain tile wood planks i have an area that now creaks squeaks and pops across 2 4 tiles limited to this area only and noise stops immediate outside of this area. The longest continuous tiled area is 63 feet. 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. Most tiles meet the 250 pound minimum.

A low tone is not a cause for immediate panic however. Floors that make a popping sound. The tile is 6 x 6 12 x 18 and 18 x 18 mostly in a modified hopscotch pattern. There is no standard for how hollow a floor can sound.

Carpeting is the best option for a home theater because it will give you better acoustics than hard flooring such as wood or tile. Place the level on different areas of the floor and notice if it lays flat in all spots. The house is l shaped. It is 39 feet at its widest point all the same tile.

At another location i can hear a popping sound. Most tiles comply with astm c648 breaking strength standards. Hollow sounds are only an indication that something is different beneath those areas as compared to areas where other tiles sound different. It could represent a problem or not.

The bathrooms have a different. If a gap appears under the center of the level it indicates a low spot if the level rocks back and. We just installed marble tiles on the shower walls and floor without any reinforcement to subflooring. No toilet or vanity are installed yet and the water connections ready for faucets.

It came from dal.