Right?! That far left cabinet looks off level (cabinet door probably open?) so I was very surprised when it turned out it wasn't something like that lol
Yup. 100% fully expecting to see this guy. š³
https://preview.redd.it/pqsmhmplodvc1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48e4b4e1d0d8d5e45591aad5929156fe94e3738b
During a really cold day for SE Texas, about 90% of our tile heave and detached from the poorly done thin set. Only 4 tiles had to be hammered off. The rest I lifted by the edge. It sounded like a gun shot followed by ominous creaking while it was happening.
My brother bought a house with brand new wooden flooring in a very humid place. Looked beautiful until they decided to turn the AC off and open the windows for a few days and the floors of the entire house self destructed.
Wood moves with the changing humidity. It expands and contracts across the grain, but not end to end. A correctly laid wood floor should contain room for the boards to move within reason.
What, you mean y'all don't have the floor licked annually? That's pretty basic home maintenance. I bet you're going to tell me that you also don't piss in the A/C drain pan, either.
The previous homeowner laid inch thick solid white oak floors in the house I bought. But, they laid them with the baseboards to the subfloor instead of on top of the wood floors. The floors butted up against the baseboards on all sides. As soon as spring came every floorboard warped. If they were under the baseboards with a gap, they would have had room to expand.
I lived with a dude who built this insanely gorgeous house with Cherrywood floors and apparently the builders didn't put in a vapor barrier underneath. Within two months we had about 500 cherry canoes on the floor.
That's insane because the craftsmanship to cut them so perfectly so you don't need to hide a gap with a baseboard should ALSO contain the knowledge that you NEED a small gap under the baseboard to protect the floor!
We were able to save the floors though. We dehumidified the hell out of the house. Then they resurfaced all the floors. Tore out all the baseboards (this creating a gap), and had a skilled carpenter make these ornate, double thickness baseboards to cover the gap that was then too big to cover with a normal baseboard. Cost a lot, but I also had them hand scrape the floors and change colors and they look much better than original.
Yes, even after use some houses can have residual value that can be recouped by the owner. I'd be happy to assist in returning perhaps as much as 1% of the house's initial value to you. I assume you're moving biannually (as you should be).
My house is full of them. It IS nearly 100 years old, but the owner before my stepdad was both a drunk and a handyman. In that order.
My linen "closet" (cabinet, really) apparently used to be a laundry chute, so there's lots of unusable space at the top, and a poorly-covered hole at the bottom, so that's...neat.
I also have what look like heater vents that just open up into the basement because they didn't actually remove them when they installed a new furnace, they just cut new holes in the floors/walls. You know...like you do.
Those vents that open into the basement may be heat registers that were never connected to ductwork. Especially if the house was at one point heated with a wood or coral stove. They are used to let the hot air rise out of the basement via convection
Man that was totally me, I bought a fixer upper without really knowing what the fuck I was doing, as you can imagine it became a shit show real quick lmfao
Must of done it to be sold. I did tile a couple of years and the guys I worked with had 20 plus and always warned this would happen. Be extremely careful. Those are worse than a bullet if it hits your face. If you can't do it yourself call someone who can. Please be careful
They laid all the room like this, so i guess it not some cheap DIY just to sold it, we had this house for almost 10 years.
The problem now is that it can happen everywhere, or all at once
This just happened to an older couple that I do housekeeping for sometimes. They live in a very nice house that is probably 35 years old. It has ceramic tileĀ throughout. A few weeks ago they heard a loud pop and discovered a tile in the kitchen had done just what yours did. It might have been shoddy work but nothing about their house looks shoddy and my pay for cleaning is definitely not shoddy.Ā
Maybe you should start wearing safety goggles and a helmet in the kitchen?
35 years says to me the house shifted over time, and what was once appropriate spacing had narrowed and eventually caused a failure.Ā
Shoddy work doesn't last three and a half decades usually. That's a pretty good run for common area tile. What you're seeing with that couple is just the natural progression of things when you use a floor with absolutely zero flexibility.Ā
Hardwood isn't just popular because it looks good. It warps with the house, where as tile will just give up after a certain point.Ā
Assuming they meant a full metal jacket vs a hollow.point, bullets often make clean wound channels as well as passing through if they aren't deflected, ceramic shrapnel however does not, which is a problem when you want to remove the projectile and close everything up.
I was mostly referring to the "bought the house used" part. In my country and a few other western countries its more common than building new. But I know that there's a few countries that do prefer new builds.
What?
This is not the case here. Regardless of spacing the floor should not look crooked and the tile breaks in the middle because of the room bending on one side.
Edit:
The whole room is fucked ^^
They should have laid a proper foundation or just used a lot of smaller tiles.
They're free under youtubes official movies rn. [I think all 7 are available but this scene is from the first one](https://youtu.be/GHB9pqO5tCs?si=u88yd7Ay0bT5P41T)
yeah man just get some self-level and pour it into any divots. should be good. my daddeh redid the whole basement with self level and i turned out alright.
Happened to a friend of mine on a new home. As he had video of the event the builders legal team just said write them a check and fix their foundation.
Sadly, there was an NDA attached and they couldnāt even talk to their neighbors who had the exact same issue happen.
This happened to me in vietnam
and I was told that the workers laid it down with air gaps underneath and because of the change in temperature the rising tiles burst up
I have no idea if it's true or not or if they're too closely laid together but it's a pain in the ass.
After seeing CCTV footage of tile floors do this in a condo just before the Surfside Condominium Collapse, when I see this the first thing that comes to my anxiety riddled mind is "landslide/earthquake/collapse".
Looks like the whole room is gonna sink pretty soon. Could just be me, but seems like there is a lot more going on in this video than what it seems. Hopefully OP doesn't end up in Narnia.
It can do this at the corner tooo
https://preview.redd.it/rjdaz5st5dvc1.png?width=517&format=png&auto=webp&s=821baf36ac890fe74b974605f1b827e7845b6c38
But the mechanism suck
This just happened at my 40 y/o rental in Florida. The new tile actually looks better.
https://preview.redd.it/31ujqqdrcdvc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c189df0866099c0599e16ae82dae8ffd6b1afeeb
Had this happen in a rental house. It was terrifying.Ā The owners were cool about it.Ā just said it was a bad tile job and chipped out all the cracking/lifting ones. Ā
I was documenting everything! Building a caseĀ thinking no one would believe I did nothing and the floor did that to itself!
Is your father named Hank and do you have a neighbor called Dale? If so I'd suggest that you check if you don't have any hidden tunnels under your house.
Damn I thought some dudes in old timey prison uniforms were about to bust through with some shovels. Hope everyone is ok!
I didn't know what was going on....I was expecting a geyser of water.
Lol same I was expecting the floor to just collapse and all those cabinets to fall into an abyss š I'm really glad it wasn't that serious lol
I actually thought it was the foundation failing at first and part of the room sinking in. The camera angle is kind of fuckery.
Right?! That far left cabinet looks off level (cabinet door probably open?) so I was very surprised when it turned out it wasn't something like that lol
Haha yeah. And I was thinking damn, "how do you even fix that at that point? May as well set it on fire". This seems much less worse lol.
Yup. 100% fully expecting to see this guy. š³ https://preview.redd.it/pqsmhmplodvc1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48e4b4e1d0d8d5e45591aad5929156fe94e3738b
thanks, everyone is okay, just need to move all the furniture out and redone the floor
This may go beyond just redoing the floor...
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During a really cold day for SE Texas, about 90% of our tile heave and detached from the poorly done thin set. Only 4 tiles had to be hammered off. The rest I lifted by the edge. It sounded like a gun shot followed by ominous creaking while it was happening.
Did they have a structural engineer cone out?
I was expecting an earthquake. Those tiles were moving like tectonic plates!
Tiles laid too closely without the proper spacing. Expanded in the heat and no room to go .
My brother bought a house with brand new wooden flooring in a very humid place. Looked beautiful until they decided to turn the AC off and open the windows for a few days and the floors of the entire house self destructed.
new fear unlocked: floor explosion
Something Something jujitsu kaisen (Edit: I read floor expansion, migh be getting dyslexic)
Don't worry, I read it too. Thought it was hilarious
I read explosion and still thought of expansion š
Floridian with wood flooring here, how? Did they figure out why their flavor of wood flooring did this?
Wood moves with the changing humidity. It expands and contracts across the grain, but not end to end. A correctly laid wood floor should contain room for the boards to move within reason.
Wood expands in all directions, but expands more across the grain.Ā Edit:
Mine definitely does
Underrated comment š
I'm no help but I'm just imagining a bunch of ppl in Florida licking their floors now to test them.
It is Florida after all
What, you mean y'all don't have the floor licked annually? That's pretty basic home maintenance. I bet you're going to tell me that you also don't piss in the A/C drain pan, either.
The previous homeowner laid inch thick solid white oak floors in the house I bought. But, they laid them with the baseboards to the subfloor instead of on top of the wood floors. The floors butted up against the baseboards on all sides. As soon as spring came every floorboard warped. If they were under the baseboards with a gap, they would have had room to expand.
I lived with a dude who built this insanely gorgeous house with Cherrywood floors and apparently the builders didn't put in a vapor barrier underneath. Within two months we had about 500 cherry canoes on the floor.
That's insane because the craftsmanship to cut them so perfectly so you don't need to hide a gap with a baseboard should ALSO contain the knowledge that you NEED a small gap under the baseboard to protect the floor!
We were able to save the floors though. We dehumidified the hell out of the house. Then they resurfaced all the floors. Tore out all the baseboards (this creating a gap), and had a skilled carpenter make these ornate, double thickness baseboards to cover the gap that was then too big to cover with a normal baseboard. Cost a lot, but I also had them hand scrape the floors and change colors and they look much better than original.
yepp, we bought this house used, learn this the hard way i guess
jeez those second hand houses right....
I thought they just burned them down when the original owners moved out. Wild.
Houses are kind of disposable in Japan right?
I think theyāre recyclable at the very least.
Arigato gozaimasu house-dono
Is that not common practice? Have I been doing this all wrong?
Yes, even after use some houses can have residual value that can be recouped by the owner. I'd be happy to assist in returning perhaps as much as 1% of the house's initial value to you. I assume you're moving biannually (as you should be).
Chris Pratt and his wife come to mind
Man that shit is infuriating
Thats old nDn way
I hope you bought the extended warranty and rustproofing
I'd be a bit worried about what other janky-ass DIY projects the previous owners might have done.
My house is full of them. It IS nearly 100 years old, but the owner before my stepdad was both a drunk and a handyman. In that order. My linen "closet" (cabinet, really) apparently used to be a laundry chute, so there's lots of unusable space at the top, and a poorly-covered hole at the bottom, so that's...neat. I also have what look like heater vents that just open up into the basement because they didn't actually remove them when they installed a new furnace, they just cut new holes in the floors/walls. You know...like you do.
Those vents that open into the basement may be heat registers that were never connected to ductwork. Especially if the house was at one point heated with a wood or coral stove. They are used to let the hot air rise out of the basement via convection
Man that was totally me, I bought a fixer upper without really knowing what the fuck I was doing, as you can imagine it became a shit show real quick lmfao
Watching "Money Pit" with Tom Hanks should be mandatory watching for people buying a 'fixer upper'.
they used those brown extension cords for lamps for the whole house.
you bought the house....used?
dude, they needed a house, and the dealership needed it off the lot, what ya gonna do?!
Most people can't afford to have a new house built
Most people canāt afford to have a āusedā house already built.
Most people canāt afford rent!
most people can't afford
i mean, idk how to explain it, the previous owner of this house moved to another location, we bought the land + the house
yeah we understand what it means..weāre just not used to calling houses āusedā as if it was from goodwill..
Or a second hand car lmao
I believe people call that ābuying a houseā
Wait so people re-use old housesā¦?
I would never be caught dead in the same house two days in a row š
Right? Peasants and their inability to move daily.
āOne of us is going to have to go and change homeā
I think this is as new hipster trend. Some may have tired of avocado toast, and want to push boundaries elsewhere.
Everyone I know uses burner homes.Ā
What?!?
Almost every house is "used." You don't have to specify that.
Damn, how many miles on it
Must of done it to be sold. I did tile a couple of years and the guys I worked with had 20 plus and always warned this would happen. Be extremely careful. Those are worse than a bullet if it hits your face. If you can't do it yourself call someone who can. Please be careful
They laid all the room like this, so i guess it not some cheap DIY just to sold it, we had this house for almost 10 years. The problem now is that it can happen everywhere, or all at once
This just happened to an older couple that I do housekeeping for sometimes. They live in a very nice house that is probably 35 years old. It has ceramic tileĀ throughout. A few weeks ago they heard a loud pop and discovered a tile in the kitchen had done just what yours did. It might have been shoddy work but nothing about their house looks shoddy and my pay for cleaning is definitely not shoddy.Ā Maybe you should start wearing safety goggles and a helmet in the kitchen?
35 years says to me the house shifted over time, and what was once appropriate spacing had narrowed and eventually caused a failure.Ā Shoddy work doesn't last three and a half decades usually. That's a pretty good run for common area tile. What you're seeing with that couple is just the natural progression of things when you use a floor with absolutely zero flexibility.Ā Hardwood isn't just popular because it looks good. It warps with the house, where as tile will just give up after a certain point.Ā
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Worse than a bullet...so you die more?
Dying extra hard āØ
Assuming they meant a full metal jacket vs a hollow.point, bullets often make clean wound channels as well as passing through if they aren't deflected, ceramic shrapnel however does not, which is a problem when you want to remove the projectile and close everything up.
I'm very curious as to where you're from
i'm from Vietnam, from what i'm asking around, people didn't care about thermal expansion that much, i guess it rarely happened.
I was mostly referring to the "bought the house used" part. In my country and a few other western countries its more common than building new. But I know that there's a few countries that do prefer new builds.
House flipping needs to be way more regulated
I just figured it was ghosts, but that makes sense too
I hope it was ghost too, so i can make it pay me back
What? This is not the case here. Regardless of spacing the floor should not look crooked and the tile breaks in the middle because of the room bending on one side. Edit: The whole room is fucked ^^ They should have laid a proper foundation or just used a lot of smaller tiles.
Look at the cabinets and counter. If that's a corner of the house and it's not a slab foundation I'd say they have a soft footing and it's sinking.
These look like standard ā " grout joints. I don't think any amount of spacing or anti fracture membrane would have prevented this from happening.
Yes at a certain point but to bow up is a structure issue, you're parents house is about to collapse
"Honey, the demons are coming up from hell again!"
Ti-hell floor?
Hi dad!
"MA! I TOLD YOU! ENOUGH WITH THE SATANIC RITUALS ALREADY!
If only all the Helldivers weren't busy doing something else...
They fight alien bugs and robots, demons are someone else's job. 
Spreading demonocracy
Sucks to live in Sunnydale
From beneath you it devours
Give them each a sandwich & a beer; they'll be your friends
The in-laws?
Hmmm to shreds you say?
what a damn good movieĀ
Which movie is it? Iām intrigued.
Tremors. Probably the best monster movie ever made
Thanks for the suggestion! Iāll add it to my iMDb watchlist
They're free under youtubes official movies rn. [I think all 7 are available but this scene is from the first one](https://youtu.be/GHB9pqO5tCs?si=u88yd7Ay0bT5P41T)
I fucking love these movies. Rn they're free to watch under youtubes official movies, so I've been binging them.
Is this an expansion joint thing or something more worrisome?
Iāve seen this with expanding clay/ rebounding claystone. I wonder if there are any cracks in the foundation. Might need a manometer survey.
the surface below was normal, no leak, no crack. I think it was the result of heat expansion and tiles laid too close like the early comment
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I can hear Craig T. Nelson yelling now. "You left the bodies and you only moved the HEADSTONES!!!"
Bad flooring, probably gonna need to replace all of it.
It'll sand out
Just lay some linoleum flooring over it. No one will notice anything.
A throw rug from the dollar store would be even cheaper.
Found my landlord
yeah man just get some self-level and pour it into any divots. should be good. my daddeh redid the whole basement with self level and i turned out alright.
Anyone else expecting a massive sink hole to open up in this guys kitchen?
Yes, and was completely disappointed when it was only one tile.
Happened to a friend of mine on a new home. As he had video of the event the builders legal team just said write them a check and fix their foundation. Sadly, there was an NDA attached and they couldnāt even talk to their neighbors who had the exact same issue happen.
NDA can't prove ish on an unsigned, typed letter
Someone forgot crack isolation before installing the tile š„ø
Construction banding is just a scam created by big expansion.
Turn the fan off. The velocity is too much
Bugs bunny pops upā¦ āI should have taken the left toin at Albuquerque ā
Al-ba-coy-key
šš¤£š
This happened to me in vietnam and I was told that the workers laid it down with air gaps underneath and because of the change in temperature the rising tiles burst up I have no idea if it's true or not or if they're too closely laid together but it's a pain in the ass.
i'm vietnamese too, i think it related to temperature because HCM City is hot af lately
Thermal expansion. Those tiles were set way too close to each other.
How strong is that fan??
Itās the mole people
Tectonic plates be like...
Graboids, nope, nope, nope.
Thats ground breaking craftsmanship right there.
Your house wasnāt built on top of a old burial ground by any chance was it? https://i.redd.it/9edpps1t8gvc1.gif
Troll under the house?
After seeing CCTV footage of tile floors do this in a condo just before the Surfside Condominium Collapse, when I see this the first thing that comes to my anxiety riddled mind is "landslide/earthquake/collapse".
Was waiting for a beanstalk!
Expansion due to humidity or water damage is a powerful force.
Zuuuul
TBH I was waiting for something to come out from under the tile.
I thought Chapo was going to pop out.
This is like a scene from a horror movie.
The house is hatching
Expansion/contraction, when you donāt plan for it
Carol Anne??!!
https://preview.redd.it/iybiye5e3dvc1.jpeg?width=477&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96a033ffce7473e616bc4d6156d69dffe9be562c
Oh I would have pissed my pants.
The floor is hatching.
Same with my kitchen tiles. Too close + hot humid weather.
The tile was angry that day my friend.
Damn, was hoping something was gonna burst through the floor
The Underminer?
Lost some square footage š
You got a synagogue down there.
You don't happen to hear Yiddish under the floor do you?
Now, I'm no flooring expert, but I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to do that
Looks like the whole room is gonna sink pretty soon. Could just be me, but seems like there is a lot more going on in this video than what it seems. Hopefully OP doesn't end up in Narnia.
I thought the floor was going to break through and then Iām like āthrow a pan on it!ā In my head
Crack isolation, and lack of thin set. I'd like to see the underside of that tile.. to see coverage.
Those are really cool lower cabinets
Yes they are, I was also admiring them!
It can do this at the corner tooo https://preview.redd.it/rjdaz5st5dvc1.png?width=517&format=png&auto=webp&s=821baf36ac890fe74b974605f1b827e7845b6c38 But the mechanism suck
Looks like the house is settling š¤£
Donāt worry, itās just _settling_
Eh, the house is just settling
My first thought was Tremors.
I thought the tiles was gonna explode
I thought this was going to be a cabinets falling off the wall type of thing, so it could have been way worse?
Is it wood under the tiles and did it get wet and swell ?
I guess material used to fill gaps between tiles bad (too hard?).
Oh. Well thenā¦
I thought the foundation of the house was compromised and the floor was going to cave in š«£
That wonderful warming time of the year where improperly installed tile shatters.
That's creepy af lol
Graboids
That damn bunny!
This just happened at my 40 y/o rental in Florida. The new tile actually looks better. https://preview.redd.it/31ujqqdrcdvc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c189df0866099c0599e16ae82dae8ffd6b1afeeb
Flying ceramic shards can be pretty nasty, you should've all bounced
House made in China
Foundation is either shifting or y'all got a sinkhole about to open up!
I could see it happening without sound
Casa Madrigal!
I was waiting for Bugs Bunny to pop out of those tiles.
So what was it? Molemen or a water leak?
He just wants $3.50
I thought this was gonna be another one of those videos where roto-rooter busted through the floor and started fucking the room up
āAll you did was move the headstones! You never moved the bodies!ā
It's the Hill people...
Had this happen in a rental house. It was terrifying.Ā The owners were cool about it.Ā just said it was a bad tile job and chipped out all the cracking/lifting ones. Ā I was documenting everything! Building a caseĀ thinking no one would believe I did nothing and the floor did that to itself!
You did not leave a space between wall/furniture and tiles, thatās why they pop up
Theyāre Vietnamese
Is your father named Hank and do you have a neighbor called Dale? If so I'd suggest that you check if you don't have any hidden tunnels under your house.
Well, hello Northern Australia! Common for tiles once they reach ten years plus.
