The kitchen tile layout I spent weeks on got ruined by one CSS-like spacing bug in a real floor install

I hired a local tile guy in Omaha to put down some hexagon tiles in my kitchen, a small space maybe 10 by 12 feet. He came highly recommended so I let him work while I checked in after work each day. After three days he called me over and pointed at a spot near the corner where the spacing between tiles suddenly went from a consistent 1/8 inch to nearly 3/8 inch wide. He just laughed and said it happened because the floor wasn't level and the back of one tile had a tiny hump from the mortar, so the spacer slipped. It looked exactly like a CSS margin collapse or a flexbox gap bug where one element just breaks alignment. I spent a whole Saturday going over that one spot trying to figure out how to fix it without pulling up the whole row. Anyone else run into a physical-world spacing bug that mirrored a CSS fail you've seen on a website?

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janahenderson9d ago

Oh MAN, that is HORRIBLE!

luna_wells579d ago

And like the worst part is when you think you've seen the end of it and then it just keeps going! I remember this one time my friend's basement flooded and we thought we got everything dried out but then a week later there was mold growing on the drywall and it cost them like three grand to fix. Meanwhile they had just put in new carpet like two months before. Just the absolute worst timing possible for something like that to happen.