Loud noise at 3:30am

[charliemarie]

We are 6 mo new to TV in our new home . Last night a loud noise woke me up at 3:30am and this morning I found a 2in piece of tile about 6 ft from where it broke off in the bathroom . Does anyone know if a block house settles enough to do that kind of damage ? . Should I contact the builder about this ? Has anyone else experienced this in their new home ?

[quill]

If you are in a 6 month old house, you should most definitely call warranty dept. and have some one check it. Sounds more like the tile guy did not set the tile correctly and it came off. Not correct at all. And homes do settle but should not settle to any extent that you should notice. Not a builder just my opinion, good luck. Actually I think warranty and your builder will be very interested in this. This is not the kind of thing they want to hear about and can cost a sub contractor trouble if they are not keeping up to TV standards.

[F16 1UB]

All homes settle. And yes call the warranty dept. We had 2 tiles crack in the hallway. They were replaced. Also our concrete pad off of the lanai has a crack in it. Was here from day 1.

[BlueHeronFan]

Well this is quite interesting to me today. We have been in our block home since Nov09.
Heard the exact description, a LOUD boom in the middle of the night. Woke me up, and I searched the entire house for what I thought was someone crashing into the home. Found nothing. Then again for the second time early in the evening 2 days ago, and about scared my wife to death. I was about to call the Ghost Hunters. Afterwards, assumed it was some settling. Now wondering if I should be contacting somebody.

[Bogie Shooter]

Well this is quite interesting to me today. We have been in our block home since Nov09.
Heard the exact description, a LOUD boom in the middle of the night. Woke me up, and I searched the entire house for what I thought was someone crashing into the home. Found nothing. Then again for the second time early in the evening 2 days ago, and about scared my wife to death. I was about to call the Ghost Hunters. Afterwards, assumed it was some settling. Now wondering if I should be contacting somebody.
I would stop wondering and call home warranty. Also walk around the outside and inspect the walls....look for small hairline or larger cracks.

[otherbruddaDarrell]

Make sure you have sink holes on your insurance policy............they do happen here in Florida.

[TrudyM]

This is my husband the civil engineer's pet peeve. Most builders, developers et. all, after they get through with the dozers and earth moving do not compact the site enough (if at all). We saw houses being built in Atlanta on slab with no site compaction. They had such severe settling that the roofs were affected.:22yikes:
They may compact the area under the street but not the area under the pad. And neither is compacted to make my husband happy I suspect, as he use to work on state highway construction and tends to want to over-engineer everything. That said in this case he is most likely correct. If the area where the slab is to be poured is compacted, heavy watered, compacted again with multiple repeats, hubby says there wouldn’t be anywhere near the settlement that you see in most new construction.
Most of us who lived our lives in houses built on foundations instead of slab; don’t realize the site should be compacted.

As you all seem happy with your houses in TV, some compaction is probably being done, maybe the week some houses were built they were sloppy?

[BlueHeronFan]

I think I will contact the warranty Dept just in case. Thanks for the feedback. I have checked the home over, and so far nothing inside and out. Have not been into the rafters though.

[BigLew]

Well this is quite interesting to me today. We have been in our block home since Nov09.
Heard the exact description, a LOUD boom in the middle of the night. Woke me up, and I searched the entire house for what I thought was someone crashing into the home. Found nothing. Then again for the second time early in the evening 2 days ago, and about scared my wife to death. I was about to call the Ghost Hunters. Afterwards, assumed it was some settling. Now wondering if I should be contacting somebody.

There is also a test bombing range used by the Navy or Air Force quite a way from here but it often produces "Booms" that are quite loud when heard from here!

[BlueHeronFan]

There is also a test bombing range used by the Navy or Air Force quite a way from here but it often produces "Booms" that are quite loud when heard from here!
BigLew, I guess that is a thought, but I would assume (yea yea I know) that everybody in the area would be asking about that one. I am still waiting for contact from the builder.
One thing that is good about the online warrenty claim is that it leaves a documentation trail. If we get some kind of remark like "it's normal, don't worry about it" and 3 years later the home is sitting on a 10 degree angle, I think the legal beagles would be glad I saved the email response.