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Just sitting watching the TV when there was a noise like a china vase being knocked over on the windowsill, thinking it was the cat, my son went to see what she was up to. Cat's not there, she was in the kitchen, but two tiles have popped up, several others are loose and the two that have popped up, won't go back in place as they now overlap the adjacent tiles by about 5mm. They look like the original tiles too, Only been there around 60 years.
 
Shrinkage/expansion of the wall with the heat or subsidence?
 
It hasn't been hot today, hope it's not subsidence we are the ground floor of 3 story block of flats.
 
Well, something has moved to cause this...

Is it damp under the tile or at the uprights?
 
No everything is dry. The only thing I can think of is the cat likes laying there and she was just going scatty on there about ten minutes earlier, perhaps her bouncing around had disturbed the tiles in some way. If she had still been on there she would have leapt 6 foot into the air.
 
It's possible that the tiles were compressed by expanding wood and were just on the point of breaking, might have been that way for a while and the cat was the tipping point.
 
This is a strange coincidence, because as I was watching the F1 qualifying in our living room at around 1.30 this afternoon, I thought I heard some creaking noises from the corner of the room around the window frame. About half an hour later I went up into the main bedroom (above the living room) and heard a few of the same sounds.
We live in Kent on a chalk base, and I was wondering about movement/slight subsidence as well.
 
nilagin said:
It hasn't been hot today, hope it's not subsidence we are the ground floor of 3 story block of flats.
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It could be I'm sure. Bear in mind that any subsidence at ground level will be exaggerated three stories up.

Strange how only two tiles are effected though.
 
Steep said:
It's possible that the tiles were compressed by expanding wood and were just on the point of breaking, might have been that way for a while and the cat was the tipping point.
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No wood involved, it's all brickwork and cement.
 
nilagin said:
No wood involved, it's all brickwork and cement.
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Hm. Time to call International Rescue.

Thunderbird 2 would seem appropriate.
 
kendo1 said:
Hm. Time to call International Rescue.

Thunderbird 2 would seem appropriate.
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Might have been them tunnelling nearby in the Mole.
I have had a look outside and there is no obvious signs of movement there. We have never noticed, in the 26yrs we have lived here, that the tiles were tightly packed together, but the fact that to put the tiles back would require cutting about 5mm off, it makes you wonder how they managed to lay them in the first place.
 
I'd buy a ouija board and start watching horror movies so you're prepared for what's coming
 
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