Flooring is by no means beneath me, but I haven’t really done anything below a shoe molding. So question for the tile high club: What would you do in the pictured situation? These are floor sections that have always felt a bit “squishy”. Today they finally popped up into the tent formation you see here.
Wait for it to settle and then add glue to keep it down? Cut it to fit?
Additional context:
I did not do this install myself, so the history is a bit of a mystery. This is installed in a full bathroom and is made of what feels like a smoothed slate material. I believe it is a composite tile.
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I have similar, I believe it's a type of laminate (they call it that, it can be inflexible but has a fake wood look). Does it have a tongue and groove edge where two pieces meet? Either way, new floor needed. If you can't afford it, a temp solution is to make a transition since it's by a door, you can kind of get away with a slightly different floor and a cover over the gap.
Having done a little work on mine, good flooring can get costly. Just a pack of 18 sq ft here was $50, though it was very good, textured laminate. Waterproof stuff, too, doesn't require mortar.
No tongue and groove in this one. I’d be looking at at least 90 sqft of tile. Pricey, but still much cheaper than going the contractor route.
Hmm, that does explain why it'd need mortar, too. The tongue and groove stuff works like puzzle pieces and if you follow a lot of the other advice, it's not a terribly hard diy project. There's cheaper stuff out there, too, though you definitely notice the difference.