Wednesday, February 6, 2019: Tile Work

It was back on June 18, 2018 that I first noticed the subsidence of the tiles at the south door of the sunroom and contacted Mike S. He promised to come out and take a look, which he did on June 20. After looking, he promised to be out the following week to effect repairs. There were numerous promises over the next seven months. Today, he finally came and made a repair.

While the slab has certainly settled (Mike estimated about 1/4"), the settling appears to be in the slab and not the foundation. There is no indication of foundation settling at this time. Mike suggested the reason for the broken tiles is that they were more tight communication with the foundation.

He thinks that if he replaces the broken tiles and allow them to "float" independent of the foundation, they will not break again. Hopefully also, the slab has found its "home" and will settle no more. To actually address the settling issue would be a massive and expensive proposition.

We have a lot of extra tiles. Why we have so many, I do not know. It appears we bought about 50% more tiles than we needed. What we do not have is much remaining grout. The original bag of grout has pretty much solidified, although there was enough to grout the new tiles.

If future replacements are needed, the grout used is a Polyblend Sanded Grout and the color is #60 Charcoal.

When Mike reattached the floor molding, he also attached the molding on the left hand side of the fireplace, which was never attached originally.

Overall, Mike was here about 2.5 hours and charged $150.