This picture was taken on January 3, 2010, when I set about documenting all the problems that had emerged since final construction related to settling of the new structure. What you see here (click the photo for an enlarged view) is how much separation had occurred between the floor and the walls of the main upstairs bathroom's shower, as well as the crack in the corner joints of the tiles on the walls. All four of the full bathrooms had cracks and separations in the grout work. I did not do extensive blogging about this, but I've noted before the problems with tile separation in the grout between the walls and the floors of the showers and a general disintegration of the grout around the Van Gogh bathroom's tub.
At the end of February, most of these issues were reworked with a more pliable grout by the general contractor, Peter LaRoque of LaRoque Construction of Mocksville, NC.
Alas, with the passage of more time, cracks have appeared in the floors of the master bathroom (rather extensive, as noted in an earlier blog post) and in the Wyeth bathroom upstairs. The Van Gogh bathroom is not showing much in the way of obvious cracks but there are hairline-sized hints at it. The main upstairs bathroom, located on the stair landing, is showing cracks in the grout in front of and along the sides of the shower threshhold:
As of early June, it appears that the floor is continuing to separate from the walls in the Wyeth shower, in spite of the use of the altered grout compound. The following two pictures are from June 7, 2010:
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