I called my tile guy multiple times but he stopped taking my calls and disappeared, told me he did everything right and obviously it’s a flaw in the tile,

What type of contractor was this guy? Does your state require contractors to have a license? If so, is he licensed? What does “disappeared” mean? If knew that I did everything right: A.) you couldn’t keep me from coming to your house to investigate; and B.) I’d apologize profusely and hope that you’d give me the opportunity to re-do the shower. How, exactly, was the shower constructed—what procedures did he follow/products did he use? Where did you buy the tile? Who’s the manufacturer? If you have pictures of the project in process, please post them. A look at the contract wouldn’t hurt, either.

Those pics are unimportant in the scheme of things. Post the in progress pics. Which we all know what those will show.

You say "porcelain" tile. Did the boxes say porcelain? True porcelain tile should absorb almost no water. Cheaper ceramic tiles can.

I didn’t take progress pictures didn’t think I needed to

The boxes say porcelain

See I tested the tile, literally submerged in a bucket of water and only after the 7th day did it start showing slight absorption on the edges, but that’s being submerged,
Our drain is linear I think it shows on the third photo but i am starting to think maybe it is a issue with the slant but the thing is the water drains like if I shower and get out there is no real standing water
Can it be seaping through the grout and maybe something underneath is pocketing and not drying
What can this be
If water is between liner and tile that is a big problem right

Not specifically, the liner is actually made to reallocate any water that will absolutely seep through the grout and mortar products to the drain body. The main issue might rather be " does the drain have weep holes built in to the body or does it just drain from the topside?" If it has no weeps, then the water is sitting next to the drain, not going up then over the surface of the tile floor and back down into ( the only water evacuation opening) that exists at the uppermost part of the center of your floor (drain grate). I recently had a similar issue with the schluter drain system and the way I'm going to fix it is take up the drain replace the handful of tiles around the drain area and reset the drain without locking down the weep mechanism that the drain has built in with thinset. In fact, pea gravel is touted as the best product in this circumstance to keep weeps from being obstructed. Hope it helps.

Hi Margarita, Have you found out the cause of the problem? I have the exact problem. We have not even finished installing all the porcelain tiles. The water seems to have absorbed from the wet mortar on the back of the tile.

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Porcelain has a 5% absorption rate grout has something like 10 to 14% absorption rate depending on the type of grout.

It may be possible to epoxy set the floor and epoxy grout that could keep some of that moisture out.

There's a guy named pasha starykov on Facebook that does a lot of installations with epoxy for this exact reason check him out.

Did you find a solution? We are having same issues on a new construction. Ceramic tiles absorbing water. So upsetting!