Crunchy Sound Under Floor Tile

Tile floors are very hard so walking on them transmits vibration very easily into the sub floor.

Crunchy sound under floor tile.

Recently i noticed that a few of the floor tiles in the kitchen make a crunching sound when walked on. Tile floors are beautiful durable and a fairly diy friendly option but for tile s good looks to really last it s vital to start with what you can t see the ideal underlayment. It ll be more to with how the floor was prep d by the tile what adhesive did he use and how he laid the tiles. At another location i can hear a popping sound.

Since this doesn t allow a small air gap between the wood floor and the subfloor this option eliminates that hollow sound and it makes engineered wood feel and sound like real hardwood. This serves two purposes. With the glue down installation method you ll apply a strong adhesive directly to the subfloor and the wood floor is then installed on top of this adhesive. Because you say that the tile floor in question is on the second floor i am going to assume that the tile is installed over a wood sub floor.

The other night i woke up to the sound of loud popping or cracking noises. A low tone is not a cause for immediate panic however. The noises happened regularly throughout the night. I don t know of anything that will flood under the tiles to bed them down 600mm is alot of tile for anything to track underneath.

On closer inspection i can see that the tiles are moving very slightly against the grout which is causing the sound. 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. There is a almost unnoticeable bulge where one of the tile comes up. It was coming from the tile in the laundry room.

I had my kitchen remodeled with the floor tiled first on a wooden subfloor and cabinets installed the following day. The first is to have tile glue injected underneath the tiles. The popping noise also happens from time to time when i step on the laundry room floor and in some spots i hear a crunching noise when i walk on the floor. 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.

With structure settlement resolving floor problems may be a complicated and expensive ordeal. When the right soundproofing floor underlayment is installed directly under a tile floor the underlay absorbs footstep noise before it can vibrate through to the. Grout will have very little to do with the failure of this floor.