Most tiles meet the 250 pound minimum.
Banging sound on tile floor different areas.
As long as the tile does not break under 250 pounds of pressure the tile is considered to be compliant with these standards.
The house is about 30 yrs old and one side of this bathroom floor is about 2 inch lower on the bath faucet side.
On these 9 36 porcelain tile wood planks i have an area that now creaks squeaks and pops across 2 4 tiles limited to this area only and noise stops immediate outside of this area.
We just installed marble tiles on the shower walls and floor without any reinforcement to subflooring.
It came from dal.
I had my kitchen remodeled with the floor tiled first on a wooden subfloor and cabinets installed the following day.
In this test floor tiles are run through a machine that exerts loads on an unsupported 1 inch square area.
A low tone is not a cause for immediate panic however.
No toilet or vanity are installed yet and the water connections ready for faucets.
If a gap appears under the center of the level it indicates a low spot if the level rocks back and.
Sometimes you might walk across your floors and hear a popping or creaking noise.
The house is l shaped.
It could represent a problem or not.
The bathrooms have a different.
The longest continuous tiled area is 63 feet.
Most tiles comply with astm c648 breaking strength standards.
There is no standard for how hollow a floor can sound.
Carpeting is the best option for a home theater because it will give you better acoustics than hard flooring such as wood or tile.
At another location i can hear a popping sound.
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.
Hearing popping sounds is not so good.
Floors that make a popping sound.
The tile is 6 x 6 12 x 18 and 18 x 18 mostly in a modified hopscotch pattern.
The pattern changes in a couple of rooms but there in no hard boundary between the patterns.
The tile installer used metal lath stapled to the subfloor with at best 1 4 mortar bed with thin adhesive per visual inspection at a removed air register.
Place the level on different areas of the floor and notice if it lays flat in all spots.
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.
Hollow sounds are only an indication that something is different beneath those areas as compared to areas where other tiles sound different.
This bathroom is located on the 2nd floor and originally had a cast iron tub and ceramic tiles.
