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lilia07

Bathroom floor flexing, broken tiles

Lilia07
9 years ago

Hello all. We just finished our bathroom renovation - less than 3 weeks and we have noticed the following problems: 1. the floor is flexing and all the grout on the joint lines (wall and floor) got cracked. My husband regrouted the lines, and the cracks reappeared after a day.The floor also makes a crunchy sound in one spot. The floor construction was as follows: plywood (not sure what was the thickness, but we have a piece left and it seems pretty thin and easily flexible). Blue board. Thinset. Tile.
2. We did a porcelain basketweave on the floor, which came on a 12x12 (I believe) mesh. I noticed at least 5 white little pieces that were snapped right in the middle in different locations of the floor (not sure if it's due to flexing, but it basically was like this on day 1, when i started cleaning the floor, so it was not caused by us dropping anything).
3. the grout came out in different areas of the floor (again, not sure if it was because of flexing or something else).
The contractor came to see and he said that it looks like we need more reinforcement, so he suggested to open up a ceiling below the bathroom (bathroom on the 2nd floor) and reinforce it from inside (we are going to do the renovation on the 1st floor anyways, so we are ok with opening the ceiling). He also said he will bring some other grout and regrout the floor to get rid of the cracks.
I wanted to see whether the floor was constructed adquately? Also, although the broken tiles are not easily noticeable, they are there and it makes me upset knowing they are broken. Does the contractor's approach seem right? Or should we ask him to redo the floors and retile them? Appreciate your feedback in advance!

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