My kitchen bleeds into a laundry area and the tiles in that section are cracked. I've got a bunch of matching tiles under the house, but whoever built this place thought that setting tiles into wet cement was the way to do it. There's no grout. The underfloor is a concrete slab on some black plastic sitting on top of floorboards. It's super not-up-to-spec, but I guess things were different back in 1970.
You can see the lip the tile made in the cement when they pressed it in. I also don't know what they expected the floor drain to be doing, since it's higher than the edge of the tiles - water just sits in between the tiles until I towel it up. Awesome design.
I've tried knocking out tiles with a chisel and then just seating new ones on some tile adhesive, and grouting around them with black grout, but they stick up higher than those around them, and have cracked again anyway, because I think the cement underneath isn't terribly level. The black grout just dries then flakes off the concrete.
I wondered about pouring something like a white resin over the whole thing just so it's level, and so I don't have to look at these ugly tiles. I also wondered about pulling them all up and then somehow levelling the cement so I can chuck down some of those floated vinyl boads. I don't know how resin works, the floor itself is only 'eyeball-level', and I don't know how to level set concrete either, so these are on the backburner.
I'm looking for budget-friendly suggestions.
