They will try to remedy with further grouting and their excuse is the tiles are not perfectly the same width.
Uneven wall tiles.
This helps protect them.
Repair any loose or cracked tiles.
Lippage is hard to avoid with large tile and easy to see with narrow grout lines or tile that has square rather than rounded edges.
The wall s imperfections will be really apparent with plain smart tiles like subway white.
The problem is the tiles are not looking perfectly flush.
Lippage is the technical term for uneven tile edges though is more common.
The problem is that the wall is uneven.
The unevenness of a ceramic backsplash will be more or less visible depending on the smart tiles model.
If you put a 48 straight edge up against the most sunken areas there s a gap of almost a 1 2.
If existing tiles are beyond repair remove the tile and install a piece of wallboard in its place.
Set the blade of a chisel along the grout joint and tap it with a hammer to remove the old grout surrounding the.
Remove the tile and prepare the wall according to the corresponding instructions above or tile over the existing tile.
Things you will need measuring tape tile wet saw leveling spacers and wedges trowel thinset mortar rubber mallet grout grout float grout sponge.
How to fix uneven ceramic tiles 1.
They seemed ok before grouting but after the unevenness seems to show more for some reason maybe because of the shadowing.
Place painter s tape along the edge of adjacent tiles you are not going to remove.
In any of those circumstances leveling clips and wedges help you lay tile flat.
To do so make sure all of the tiles are intact and secure.