Tile Over Euless Slabs From the 1980s Boom
More of today's Euless homes date from the 1980s than from any other decade. Census counts put Euless at 24,002 people in 1980 and 38,149 in 1990, and about 7,300 of its current housing units were built in those ten years. Many still have their original kitchen, bath and entry floors, or a second layer from the 1990s. When that comes up, we usually find a mix of hairline shrinkage cracks, a few wider cracks from clay soil movement and ridges of old thinset that have to be ground off before new tile will sit flat.
A crack is not automatically a problem. We mark each one, check whether both sides sit level and ask about any foundation repair. Where a crack is stable, a crack isolation or uncoupling membrane goes over it to keep it from reaching the new tile. A crack with one side higher than the other points to movement a membrane cannot cover, and that calls for a foundation evaluation first. In bathrooms and entries, where floors get wet, we steer you toward tile rated DCOF 0.42 or higher, the ANSI benchmark for level interior floors walked on when wet.