A tile job I did (and was mighty proud of) on a tub deck has developed one tile that has cracked. This is a tub deck made out of 4″x4″ glass aqua blue tiles. It wasn’t there yesterday, it’s there today. An inspection doesn’t show a “ding” or “dent” on the surface of the tile anywhere to indicate something had been dropped on it. Further, it sorta looks like the crack in the glass is from the backside towards the inside vs. the face of the tile to the inside. HO insists they didn’t do anything and I believe them because they weren’t home between yesterday and today to have done it. I know that I didn’t do it….so…..can glass tile somehow crack on its own?
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I've done two glass tile backsplashes (1x1 mosaics) and in both instances I noticed a couple cracked tiles a few days later. I couldn't feel the crack, they weren't loose, or obvious so I chalked it up to "character" and gave the HO a small box with some spares.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevski
I bet it's some kind of residual stress issue...(not that that helps resolve the problem).