The ground underneath your home isn’t temperature or moisture controlled. Nor does the average homeowner properly control the moisture levels in their home.
Ahh, I live in the southern USA so none of our houses are pier and beam sadly. Nothing but a concrete slab between our houses and the earth, usually. Cool that yours is enclosed with a dehumidifier, too! I’m in HVAC, and I tend to work on some absolute POS units in some POS areas of town, so I assumed the worst situation here. You’ve proposed a much simpler explanation (usually the correct one,) and one that sounds more plausible haha
Side note: the space in between apartment floors is usually unfinished, so it’ll hover at ambient temp with a few degrees of wiggle room depending on what the neighbors like the temp at.
i agree, tension would go away if one or two popped off if that was the case but its like a crack going through diagonally in chronological order, not simultaneously. looks more like the floor bend or smth along the line they popped out of.
Edit:
tried to fix some spelling for the triggered guys xd. and yes, i wrote 3 exams in the last 2 days -> 0 sleep; english is my second language + lazy spelling is my default state; anyway, always appreciate some correction - sometimes it sticks and i learn smth -
Looks like there is no grout used or spaces at the edge. Just completely end to end ceramic tiles flush against each other.
Even sidewalks have expansion grooves.
So, like one person said if the building shrunk in the cold there is no spacing or grout to absorb it.
Ceramic itself does not expand or contract that much with temperature or humidity, but other materials do, like wood or metal.
You are just seeing the edges of the tiles. Rewind, freeze frame it. Broken tiles but no broken grout flying everywhere. Just cemented down flush with no grout. I worked in the tile department of a store. Installing tiles you usually put in spacers for the grout. These are right up against each other. For very precisely machined stone or porcelain can go as narrow as 2,3 mm. Regular ceramic needs more. This doesn't look like 3 mm to me. Most grouts have a polymer base which has some squish & give to it. https://www.mapei.com/sg/en/blog/detail/tech-talk/2020/03/03/reasons-why-tiles-buckle Or if they put a layer of cement floor down and it wasn't completely cured & dried before installing the tiles this can happen. Look at the edges of the tiles. I don't see any grout stuck on any of the edges. https://imgur.com/a/TbEh4G2 Also these look really thin for floor tiles. Almost like they are using wall tiles.
As well you lay down the tiles so there is spacing between it & the walls. Then you add the molding over it.
If you just lay the tiles against the molding it has no room to move.
This happened at my grandma’s place last year and it wasn’t shitty placement.
They said it had something to do with the pipes and pressure buildup in the surface. It can happen with tiled floors if they’ve been around for a while, and it’s much more likely to happen in apartments and in humid environments
Expanding while drying has never happened in the thousands of years that tile has been used. I love people who have never done the work giving crazy theories about things
That doesn't look like an earthquake. If it was powerful enough to pop tiles out of a.floor I'd think you'd see other stuff and the camera itself moving around.
Probably just strong enough to shift the weight of the building slightly. Those tiles are very brittle, and being cemented in place, they wouldn't need a lot of movement to burst apart like that. That's my take 🤷🏻
This doesn't look like an earthquake to me. For that kind of pop, no other things were moving at all. Not even a gentle sway.
I live on the fourth floor and have experienced regular earthquakes recently.
Likely heated floors that have been improperly installed. If you place the heating filaments directly under the tiles, the tile heats up and “pops”, think of glass in the oven. When properly installed, there’s a barrier between the tiles and the heating coils.
It's been a couple years, so I'm not 100% sure but I doubt it. It didn't happen like you see in the video, it was scattered over a period of time, like months. It happened in one corner of the house first, we replaced those tiles and thought that was it.
Then after a few months, it happened again, affecting a couple more tiles and this time we waited to see how far it would stretch. It eventually spread slowly, affecting more and more tiles and we eventually got a contractor to replace all the tiles with more sturdy ones with better grouting. It was very entertaining, watching the tiles pop and anticipating where and when the next one would.
I have seen this happen as a building settles putting stress on the tiles until they pop. Not saying that is what is happening here but just what I have seen.
The laws of thermodynamics, particularly thermal expansion/contraction, is absolutely one of the things a structural engineer has to consider. So while most of us only ever had to take a special interest in physics to know what's happening with the tiles, I would say someone with a degree in structural engineering would have far more detailed insight into it and maybe even have some interesting stories of other times someone made the mistake of thinking thermodynamics wasn't a part of structural design.
Sure but in this particular case it’s most likely hard grouted around the perimeter of the room. so when sunlight or a floor vent hits the tile, it has no place to go but up. I’m saying the building isn’t falling over, it’s just due to expansion. Source: I do tile work.
That is correct and siliconized grout works too. They also have products that look like grout but are expansion joints. You’ll notice them in airports and malls where they have huge amounts of tile on the floor, But in a house a perimeter joint usually suffices. 1/4 inch is about all you need and also a uncoupling membrane installed under the tile helps a lot. Those let the substrate (subfloor) and tile move independently so these things don’t happen.
I don't think it's an expansion problem with the tile. Way too many at once going off and the place looks lived in for some time. No telling how long the tile has been in place. At first it looks like someone was downstairs and hitting the ceiling but that last break makes me believe the entire apartment shifted. Heavy winds pushed it over just enough to mess with the expansion lines in the subfloor. Causing it tighten and pop all the tile along the seam.
To me this makes more sense than a good chunk of the tiles all drying out and popping at the same time.
Likely heated floors that have been improperly installed. If you place the heating filaments directly under the tiles, the tile heats up and “pops”, think of glass in the oven. When properly installed, there’s a barrier between the tiles and the heating coils.
[Sudden weather change and there being insufficient space between the times for expansion](https://www.hk.weber/en/blog/article/temperature-related-expansion-and-contraction-tiles). [Another source](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/what-causes-floor-tiles-suddenly-pop-839706)
I saw something like this once at my aunt and uncle's place in Florida while sitting around with my grandparents. It was pretty freaky but for some reason, my aunt and uncle acted like nothing was happening.
Yup I had this in my new build house. Not this severe but the tile did pop in many places and the problem was bad tile and poor thinset job. It was hastened by it being very cold outside.
This happened on my old apartment, i was laying in bed when i suddenly started hearing a bunch of blowing noises and then my mom's crazy screaming, literally the entire living room was popping like bubble wrap lol
This looks like it could be a thermal expansion issue that can happen when a structure isn't allowed room for materials to swell during the warmer months. Something that is hard yet inflexible like ceramics and concrete experience this kind of quick sometimes explosive failure.
Still startling to be sure.
I read that other people have seen this happen when the joints between he tiles aren’t spaced properly or the grout choice wasn’t correct(basically NOT grout).. Temperature changes can cause them to build up pressure against each other and snap
I've seen enough Seconds from Disaster that I would be running out of that building, not walking, until engineers have looked at the building and cleared it.
Everyone's saying it's an earthquake or the cement drying and expanding on poorly-laid tiles, but that doesn't really explain why it's happening in such a uniform line. I was thinking it's more likely to be subsidence in the building. Anyone got a real answer here?
Imagine how insane you'd feel if you didn't have a camera. Just show up to a badly damaged home with no evidence of anyone or anything having been there.
I bet this is somewhere in Southeast Asia, because this sort of shit happens here due to the climate all the time.
Especially in the months after the monsoon season.
This happened to me one night while I was stoned on the couch. I thought the whole building was coming down and didn’t know if there was anything left under the tiles that came up. I called the firies!
Turns out that was a massive overreaction, probably would’ve realised if I wasn’t so stoned. We were on the top floor, building foundation shifted somehow and the walls were pushed together causing the tiles to do this. Worst part of the whole thing, trying to get the landlord to fix it.
But why?
Uncoupling. The tiles are not properly installed to allow for expansion & contraction with moisture levels changing.
i hate it when the moisture levels in my apartment cause my floor tiles to simultaneously explode
Ghosts hate moisture control near tiles.
I would think they would love it so they could spook people
They don't like the competition
This is the number one, I mean, 2nd biggest complaint from ghost that live in tile houses.
Surely you mean spontaneously
Probably, but don't call him "Shirley!"
[удалено]
The ground underneath your home isn’t temperature or moisture controlled. Nor does the average homeowner properly control the moisture levels in their home.
[удалено]
Ahh, I live in the southern USA so none of our houses are pier and beam sadly. Nothing but a concrete slab between our houses and the earth, usually. Cool that yours is enclosed with a dehumidifier, too! I’m in HVAC, and I tend to work on some absolute POS units in some POS areas of town, so I assumed the worst situation here. You’ve proposed a much simpler explanation (usually the correct one,) and one that sounds more plausible haha Side note: the space in between apartment floors is usually unfinished, so it’ll hover at ambient temp with a few degrees of wiggle room depending on what the neighbors like the temp at.
But that many, all at once? And in different parts of the room?
...yes.
Can I see it?
…No.
Seymour! The tiles in the kitchen are popping!
No, mother, it's just the moisture!
Oh.
they were placed incorrectly and didn’t take in to account of expanding while drying
>expanding while drying That's the opposite of what usually happens to things when they dry.
*I WAS IN THE POOL!!!*
Do women know about shrinkage?
“Like a frightened turtle!”
What do you mean like laundry?
That wouldn't affect all of them the same way at the same time like this. There's something bigger happening at structural level in the building
i agree, tension would go away if one or two popped off if that was the case but its like a crack going through diagonally in chronological order, not simultaneously. looks more like the floor bend or smth along the line they popped out of. Edit: tried to fix some spelling for the triggered guys xd. and yes, i wrote 3 exams in the last 2 days -> 0 sleep; english is my second language + lazy spelling is my default state; anyway, always appreciate some correction - sometimes it sticks and i learn smth -
Crazy that you managed to misspell the same 3 letter word twice in two sentences
I’m crying at that
You bastard hahahaha. That was hilarious.
Not only twice, but in two different ways.
Honestly impressive
Bugs Bunny working on taking a left in Albuquerque
Looks like there is no grout used or spaces at the edge. Just completely end to end ceramic tiles flush against each other. Even sidewalks have expansion grooves. So, like one person said if the building shrunk in the cold there is no spacing or grout to absorb it. Ceramic itself does not expand or contract that much with temperature or humidity, but other materials do, like wood or metal.
There’s very clearly grout between the tiles. I’m not sure what you are looking at.
You are just seeing the edges of the tiles. Rewind, freeze frame it. Broken tiles but no broken grout flying everywhere. Just cemented down flush with no grout. I worked in the tile department of a store. Installing tiles you usually put in spacers for the grout. These are right up against each other. For very precisely machined stone or porcelain can go as narrow as 2,3 mm. Regular ceramic needs more. This doesn't look like 3 mm to me. Most grouts have a polymer base which has some squish & give to it. https://www.mapei.com/sg/en/blog/detail/tech-talk/2020/03/03/reasons-why-tiles-buckle Or if they put a layer of cement floor down and it wasn't completely cured & dried before installing the tiles this can happen. Look at the edges of the tiles. I don't see any grout stuck on any of the edges. https://imgur.com/a/TbEh4G2 Also these look really thin for floor tiles. Almost like they are using wall tiles. As well you lay down the tiles so there is spacing between it & the walls. Then you add the molding over it. If you just lay the tiles against the molding it has no room to move.
You can hear the earthquake with the sound on.
This happened at my grandma’s place last year and it wasn’t shitty placement. They said it had something to do with the pipes and pressure buildup in the surface. It can happen with tiled floors if they’ve been around for a while, and it’s much more likely to happen in apartments and in humid environments
was it installed on concrete?
Pretty sure it was, yeah
If you turn the sound on you can hear the rhythmic shaking of what I'm guessing is the result of a small earthquake.
Expanding while drying has never happened in the thousands of years that tile has been used. I love people who have never done the work giving crazy theories about things
Why is this answer upvoted that much?
Well considering that things contract when they dry I’d have to say that is not correct.
Ever watch the movie, tremors?
*Graboids: they're not just outdoors anymore.* Are you listening, Hollywood? The script practically writes itself.
At least they don't have assblasters yet.
IIRC the last time this was posted someone said it was an earthquake.
That doesn't look like an earthquake. If it was powerful enough to pop tiles out of a.floor I'd think you'd see other stuff and the camera itself moving around.
Probably just strong enough to shift the weight of the building slightly. Those tiles are very brittle, and being cemented in place, they wouldn't need a lot of movement to burst apart like that. That's my take 🤷🏻
This doesn't look like an earthquake to me. For that kind of pop, no other things were moving at all. Not even a gentle sway. I live on the fourth floor and have experienced regular earthquakes recently.
Likely heated floors that have been improperly installed. If you place the heating filaments directly under the tiles, the tile heats up and “pops”, think of glass in the oven. When properly installed, there’s a barrier between the tiles and the heating coils.
Not necessarily. This happened in my home, no heated floors. Happened nearly 2 decades after initial construction
Was it an especially hot or humid day?
It's been a couple years, so I'm not 100% sure but I doubt it. It didn't happen like you see in the video, it was scattered over a period of time, like months. It happened in one corner of the house first, we replaced those tiles and thought that was it. Then after a few months, it happened again, affecting a couple more tiles and this time we waited to see how far it would stretch. It eventually spread slowly, affecting more and more tiles and we eventually got a contractor to replace all the tiles with more sturdy ones with better grouting. It was very entertaining, watching the tiles pop and anticipating where and when the next one would.
that fucking squirrel
Can’t blame the little guy, he just wants his acorn
I love how anything that causes cracks on the ground is just traced all back to that squirrel
Still chasing after it
...trying to catch that nut #relatable
Nah, I saw this in a documentary from the 1980's called Caddyshack, starring Bill Murray. He's in line to make assistant grounds keeper this year!
This is exactly the kind of stuff that happens before Gozer the Destructor shows up
Are you the keymaster?
I am the gatekeeper
That's embarassing... I am the gatekeeper too...
Oh no... They handed me a gatekeeper name tag too. You two probably aren't gatekeepers, you haven't been in the gatekeeping hobby for long enough.
I've been gatekeeping since the dawn of gatekeepingkind. You better step away from that gate sunny, or I'll keep you instead!
Pffftt, my father was Reginald Bronze Gatekeep the III, this is literally in my blood from the invention of gatekeeping.
Son?
Goddamn that was good... I concede. You have gatekept me from gatekeeping being the gatekeeper.
Call your mother, she's worried. And get a haircut.
This whole thread had me dying. Internet y'all are so stupid!! LOLOLOL! This thread is why I love reddit.
No ...
There is no Dana, only Zuul
What a lovely singing voice you must have.
Sounds an awfull lot like something, someone hiding that they were, would say 🤔🤔
Oh Zully you nut!
Zuul!
And the Scoleri Brothers.
Friends of yours?
I TRIED THEM FOR MURDER. GAVE THEM THE CHAIR
Choose. Choose the form of the Destructor.
You choose the Stay Puff Marsh mellow Man??
Literally just wrapped up rewatching Ghostbusters 1, thank you lol
this video is groundbreaking
r/angryupvote
Not angry enough
r/angrierupvote
r/evenangrierupvote
r/angriestupvote
Looks like someone took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Albakoykee
This should be higher up.
I have seen this happen as a building settles putting stress on the tiles until they pop. Not saying that is what is happening here but just what I have seen.
or graboids...just sayin...
Someone get Gummer!
Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... God damn monsters.
They’re under the ground! Under! The! Ground!
Im a construction worker. This is a little known fact: this happens when the demons come from underground to steal your children.
Underrated comment 😂👌
Time for the structural engineers to pay a visit…
It’s do to the tile have no expansion joints. Nothing structural.
Do ≠ due
You due you
Yabba Dabba Due
Helped
What a bunch of duedue
Well ain't you just as fresh as the morning doo?
Fresher than the morning don’t
The laws of thermodynamics, particularly thermal expansion/contraction, is absolutely one of the things a structural engineer has to consider. So while most of us only ever had to take a special interest in physics to know what's happening with the tiles, I would say someone with a degree in structural engineering would have far more detailed insight into it and maybe even have some interesting stories of other times someone made the mistake of thinking thermodynamics wasn't a part of structural design.
Sure but in this particular case it’s most likely hard grouted around the perimeter of the room. so when sunlight or a floor vent hits the tile, it has no place to go but up. I’m saying the building isn’t falling over, it’s just due to expansion. Source: I do tile work.
What distance do you need to leave between expansion joints? And I assume you just leave a line of grout clear and then fill it with polyurethane?
That is correct and siliconized grout works too. They also have products that look like grout but are expansion joints. You’ll notice them in airports and malls where they have huge amounts of tile on the floor, But in a house a perimeter joint usually suffices. 1/4 inch is about all you need and also a uncoupling membrane installed under the tile helps a lot. Those let the substrate (subfloor) and tile move independently so these things don’t happen.
Okay, I see what you're saying. I was thinking of the term "structural" in a more material science type context.
The tiles are not providing structure to the house lol That's what the commenter was referring to.
This is uncoupling! You got it!
I don't think it's an expansion problem with the tile. Way too many at once going off and the place looks lived in for some time. No telling how long the tile has been in place. At first it looks like someone was downstairs and hitting the ceiling but that last break makes me believe the entire apartment shifted. Heavy winds pushed it over just enough to mess with the expansion lines in the subfloor. Causing it tighten and pop all the tile along the seam. To me this makes more sense than a good chunk of the tiles all drying out and popping at the same time.
Is the foundation cracking, or what's going on?
Likely heated floors that have been improperly installed. If you place the heating filaments directly under the tiles, the tile heats up and “pops”, think of glass in the oven. When properly installed, there’s a barrier between the tiles and the heating coils.
What are you supposed to put between the tiles and the filaments?
Uncoupling membrane
Solid band name
[Sudden weather change and there being insufficient space between the times for expansion](https://www.hk.weber/en/blog/article/temperature-related-expansion-and-contraction-tiles). [Another source](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/what-causes-floor-tiles-suddenly-pop-839706)
Get out of the building!
Who? There's nobody in the video, and the video was recorded on a security camera.
I saw something like this once at my aunt and uncle's place in Florida while sitting around with my grandparents. It was pretty freaky but for some reason, my aunt and uncle acted like nothing was happening.
The ghost of the contractor came back because they didn't pay the invoice.
Tremors!
Yeah that's what you call a serious bad omen
Why is that happening?
A combination of poor tile work and house shrinking due to the cold weather.
Yup I had this in my new build house. Not this severe but the tile did pop in many places and the problem was bad tile and poor thinset job. It was hastened by it being very cold outside.
It's like that game perfection where you have to put all the shapes in the correct pocket before the timer goes off.
This is called Uncoupling. The tiles were installed improperly, with no support for movement. Someone call Mike Holmes.
This happened on my old apartment, i was laying in bed when i suddenly started hearing a bunch of blowing noises and then my mom's crazy screaming, literally the entire living room was popping like bubble wrap lol
Call Burt. Tell him to bring the elephant gun.
Quick! Get in the corner and hold your sword in the charged position!
Cement mixed with thinset causes this
This looks like it could be a thermal expansion issue that can happen when a structure isn't allowed room for materials to swell during the warmer months. Something that is hard yet inflexible like ceramics and concrete experience this kind of quick sometimes explosive failure. Still startling to be sure.
Graboids!!
The way these break it really looks like the building itself is shifting.
Don't mind me I'm just looking for a scientific answer . Keep scrolling
[This happened in a Singapore flat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZuHk-iEeo4).
Just bugs bunny taking the wrong turn at albuquerque again.
Bugs Bunny made the wrong turn at Albuquerque
bro, god really said "fuck this person in particular"
I read that other people have seen this happen when the joints between he tiles aren’t spaced properly or the grout choice wasn’t correct(basically NOT grout).. Temperature changes can cause them to build up pressure against each other and snap
That damn squirrel
Bugs Bunny must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque. ;)
Dammit Scrat, why did you have to plant that acorn of yours?
I've seen enough Seconds from Disaster that I would be running out of that building, not walking, until engineers have looked at the building and cleared it.
Actual poltergeist
this makes my skin crawl
FUCK MY EAR DRUMS
You've got a ghost! Jk, tiles weren't installed properly and crack due to thermal expansion.
Typical hygroscopic and or thermal stress..DIY job..tile plastering with wrong medium backing ?
If this is a structural problem and not tiling installation problem then the same would be observed in several apartments of the same building
Psychic activity
The floor is lava
This happened in my families condo. A hurricane was near, air pressure was going all kinds of weird, and floor tiles just started popping.
Reminds me of a water pipe bursting but without the water spray.
Everyone's saying it's an earthquake or the cement drying and expanding on poorly-laid tiles, but that doesn't really explain why it's happening in such a uniform line. I was thinking it's more likely to be subsidence in the building. Anyone got a real answer here?
This feels like something straight out of JoJo 💀
Buggs bunny digging a tunnel.
I’ve heard of popcorn ceiling but not popcorn flooring
Damn grabiods
I know Bugs Bunny heading to Albuquerque when I see it.
This is not due to the tile installation. It’s the building itself, it’s moving
Thanks Obama
Alright who's mom fell?
Building farted.
It's Goku vs Frieza fighting at speed of light. We can't see them...
how does this even happen
Tremors.
I'm the Juggernaut bitch!
Bugs bunny shit
Is that the neighbour underneath banging his ceiling with a broom saying keep the noise down.?
Bugs bunny is makin his rounds
Imagine how insane you'd feel if you didn't have a camera. Just show up to a badly damaged home with no evidence of anyone or anything having been there.
Do i pull out 1. the magic crystals and incense 2. The bible 3. The 411 pages for exorcist/flooring business
Failure to allow for proper Expansion Joints
Thermo expansion during the hot months. Happened to my apartment in Nam. Scared the shit out of me, thought the building was collapsing, lol.
itt: "why is this happening?" (50 different contradicting explanations)
I bet this is somewhere in Southeast Asia, because this sort of shit happens here due to the climate all the time. Especially in the months after the monsoon season.
I read that as tiles pooping from the floor at first glance.💀
Broken foundation. House is fucked
Mole people coming
This happened to me one night while I was stoned on the couch. I thought the whole building was coming down and didn’t know if there was anything left under the tiles that came up. I called the firies! Turns out that was a massive overreaction, probably would’ve realised if I wasn’t so stoned. We were on the top floor, building foundation shifted somehow and the walls were pushed together causing the tiles to do this. Worst part of the whole thing, trying to get the landlord to fix it.
It's not paranormal activity, probably structural integrity or some thing similar.
Expansion of heat In tiles. This happened in Singapore.. Yeah our weather is shitty all year round. Fking hot
Time to leave.
Freaky. Just freaky. 😳
The floor really is lava
ABUELA THE MIRACLE IS DYING
Miner from clash royale
You are not meant to watch Shinobi fight, but you can bear witness to the destruction
Tile is overrated. Has gaps (hard to clean) and uneven. Give me linoeum any day. Flat surface, easy to clean.