Crunching Sound Walking On New Tile Floor

Ceramic floor tiles making a popping and cracking sound.

Crunching sound walking on new tile floor.

New floor installation being prepared reinforced above with deck 2 1 2 screws and below nailed 2 6 supports between joists every 16 or so. The main reason a floor sounds hollow is when the plank bridges a valley or dip in the subfloor thus creating an air pocket. Not if the subfloor is properly prepped. Our floor tiles have started making a crunching sound.

My house was built in 1956. While this doesn t mean your floors are defective there. Is there anything else that can be done to quiet the floor. Do your floors sound hollow when installed.

I had a tile floor in my kitchen installed about 5 years ago by a very professional guy. A hollow sound when walking on floors is much more common with laminate flooring than it is with vinyl flooring. Sometimes you might walk across your floors and hear a popping or creaking noise. There is an area about 15x15 inches that makes a crackling noise when you step on it.

It is the original tile with no signs of repair or cracks in the tile or grout. Pulling them up is not an option. My kitchen floor which is a concrete sub floor with ceramic tiles fitted on top has started making loud popping and cracking. There is a almost unnoticeable bulge where one of the tile comes up.

On closer inspection i can see that the tiles are moving very slightly against the grout which is causing the sound. Recently i noticed that a few of the floor tiles in the kitchen make a crunching sound when walked on. I looked but saw no crack in the grout around the tiled area. There are no squeaks just an occasional pop creak that does not repeat after walked on.

Just so happens about a week ago the crackling sound went away. Bathroom floor tiles grout between tiles cracked and chunks sinking tiles lifting. There is ceramic tile on the floor in the second floor bath. I have owned it since 2012.

Floors that make a popping sound. So it is hard to say if a crunching sound is a squeaking sound or what. 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. I had a new bathroom completed just over a year ago.

As stated above if the floor is installed over a wood substrate and not placed in a staggered pattern with gaps and not fastened properly floors with ceramic tile installed over them can squeak. We have no spares and only had them laid 18 months ago.