Cracked wall tile in six month old bathroom?

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Absolutely gutted… we had a new bathroom last autumn. We live in a Victorian terrace so understand that there is always movement, however we were gutted to see a vertical crack in a wall tile, coming off the top corner of the door. The installers are experienced and well established with great reviews so I think it’s more a house problem than an installation problem.

To be fair, it’s not immediately visible, but I just wondered if this was par for the course for a Victorian house? Is it possible to remove that one tile and replace it, or would that cause more damage to the other tiles? And probably the same thing would happen again in a year’s time anyway?

Par for the course.

I thought so… such a shame

It might not move any more, and it's probably an outside wall.
I have it in my kitchen, the replaced tile cracked

Just noticed that the tile above it has also now cracked! I think the crack may be following a (vertical) join in the stud wall underneath. It’s an interior wall.

Absolutely gutted

The movement is worrying but cracked tiles are easy enough to replace

Hmmm I don't think movement should be so much as to actually crack the tile - they require some force to crack. You'd expect minor movement to cause cracks along the grout lines....

Yes this leads me to think possibly inappropriate adhesive or grout used?

Have you got any spare tiles? if not I would try to get some ASAP...

It should be a fairly simple job to replace a couple of cracked tiles, but you might be wise to leave it a little while to see if the movement continues.

Is it possible someone had slammed the door with enough force to crack it if it's on a join?

Difficult to imagine how that would lead to a wall tile cracking, a floor tile maybe where it needs even support and significant weight is placed on it.
For a wall tile inappropriate adhesive at worst would mean it fell off

If the actual tile is cracking then I would say that there is significant movement in the wall itself - more than there should be - structural
Yes all houses move and settle and so on but a Victorian house shouldn't move this much now