Hi All
I laid my tiles about 18 months ago. It was originally a wooden floorboard, I then nailed cement fibre sheeting on top of the floorboards then the tiles on top. The area it covers is a lounge, dining, kitchen, and hallways to the bedrooms ... roughly about 90 sq mtrs.
Some areas must be flexing (mostly high traffic areas) which has caused the grout to crack and in some cases completely come out.
It started happening about 6 months after I initially started this project. I initially filled the gaps with grout which worked well until the started cracking again and falling out once again.
My solution is to use a water proof silicon based filler to fill it in. This will 1) flex with the floor 2) as I mop my floor every night the silicon won't become dis-coloured as the grout does. 3) Although its a slow and tedious project (taping up each tile) ... I would only have to do it once.
Well this is the theory anyway ... do you guys think it would work in reality ??????
I laid my tiles about 18 months ago. It was originally a wooden floorboard, I then nailed cement fibre sheeting on top of the floorboards then the tiles on top. The area it covers is a lounge, dining, kitchen, and hallways to the bedrooms ... roughly about 90 sq mtrs.
Some areas must be flexing (mostly high traffic areas) which has caused the grout to crack and in some cases completely come out.
It started happening about 6 months after I initially started this project. I initially filled the gaps with grout which worked well until the started cracking again and falling out once again.
My solution is to use a water proof silicon based filler to fill it in. This will 1) flex with the floor 2) as I mop my floor every night the silicon won't become dis-coloured as the grout does. 3) Although its a slow and tedious project (taping up each tile) ... I would only have to do it once.
Well this is the theory anyway ... do you guys think it would work in reality ??????