Feb
09
2017
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Breaking tiles
Such a defect is rare and is always associated with the floors of public and industrial premises under the influence of intense mechanical loads.
Defects falling into this category indicate all sorts of “pathologies” of the cladding system, which put the entire system at risk, including the fastenings between the layers and their mechanical adhesion. This entails a loss of functionality of the lined surface, without visible consequences for the appearance of the surface itself, which aggravate the situation.
Such a defect is rare and is always associated with the floors of public and industrial premises under the influence of intense mechanical loads.
This problem mainly concerns floor coverings. As a rule, the occurrence of such a defect is characterized by a so-called “incubation” period, during which some tiles separate from the base.
This defect occurs on both floor and wall surfaces. It consists of the loss of fastening of the tiles with the sub-cladding layer.
When tiles are damaged due to frost, pieces of tiles of varying sizes (from a few millimeters to several centimeters) break off.
This defect is a straight crack or twisted crack that runs through several adjacent surface tiles. In most cases, such cracking of the tile is not accompanied by its separation (even incipient) from the lower layer.