Does anyone have a travertine floor?
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Sounds to me like the flooring underneath the tiles and the laminate was not levelled before the installation.
Did you do the installation yourself, or did you hire someone do install it?
Do you know what kind of subfloor is underneath?
My first thought is who installed the floors? If the sub floor isn't sound than anything that you place on top will fail. If professionally installed, go back to the sales guys and installers, they know better and this was just sloppy work. If you did it yourself, it is now an expensive learning experience. Take up the floors, see if you can salvage and reinstall once a proper sub floor has been installed. So sorry this happened to you!
In order to have a stable floor there should be a subfloor of 3/4" and on top of that another layer of at least 1/2". The cracking travertine is most likely the result of not a good enough base. You will have to find out what thickness of sub-floor you have and remedy that if that is the problem, which it most likely is. You might be able to salvage the travertine IF you are willing to use it even with the cracks, or possibly by breaking the tiles up and making your floor into a mosiac floor, but only after you have solved your basic problem. The tile backer-board is screwed down before you lay tiles. Most home improvement stores carry tile backer-board of varying thicknesses.
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