Ceramic Tile Making Popping Noise. My kitchen floor which is a concrete sub floor with ceramic tiles fitted on top has started making loud popping and cracking sounds. Tile poping that may be the case in canada but in alabama tiles will pop loose during the night if the wrong thin set was used or if the thin set was mixed wrong. The loud noise is likely due to not having movement joints at the perimeters of the tile installation and that the tiles are constrained.
And it's not the same spot all the time. A common reason for tiles popping off the floor and coming loose is that no expansion joints were included in the installation. We bought the house new then and had the floor fitted before we moved in.
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Crackling noises from ceramic tile floor. Then it stopped and now occasionally we hear a loud popping noise. Its just sitting there on the floor, and when you walk on it, its moving, thus the popping and crunching sounds. Floors can move and expand at different rates.