ᐅ The same tiles throughout the entire ground floor and the bathroom – should we use the same ones in the basement as well?

11ant schrieb:

Härddie is what they call the Jääscher

Another quote from somewhere and I don’t know it. Please explain, oh great master of wordplay :-)

HoisleBauer22 schrieb:

oh great master of wordplay

... would be a label I’d have to reject – I won’t be matching Willy Astor anytime soon.

HoisleBauer22 schrieb:

Another quote from somewhere I don’t recognize.

In the original, it refers to the fox on Hannelörsche’s shoulder: "Hello, I am Hermann," Rodgau Monotones 1985.

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Tolentino schrieb:

In the basement, I would choose dark gray tiles (not anthracite) from the lowest range on the shelf and definitely wouldn’t pay more than 10 EUR/m² (about 9.5 USD/yd²) for them.

But that’s just my opinion.

The savings are less than you might expect. The expensive part of tiling is the labor.
If you pay 110 EUR/m² (about 105 USD/yd²), the tile material might only cost around 30 EUR/m² (about 29 USD/yd²).
The rest covers labor and small items like tile adhesive, grout, silicone, edging strips, and so on.

If you choose 10 EUR/m² (about 9.5 USD/yd²) tiles, you only save about 20 EUR/m² (about 19 USD/yd²) because the other costs remain the same.
Besides, I wouldn’t want to see a tile with a material price of 10 EUR/m²—those cost about 5 EUR/m² two years ago, but tile prices have skyrocketed since then.

Real savings on tiles only come if you do the work yourself. This applies to most floors and walls: labor is the costly part, not the materials.

So it’s better to use decent tiles in the basement too, ones you won’t want to chip out in five years because the cheap stuff annoys you.

Yes, for tiles, but not for other types of flooring. We would have received just under 20€/m² (approximately $1.85/ft²) for the flooring after deducting the cost of materials. By the way, the installation was glued down.

In most construction companies, the floor throughout the entire house is not included as standard. It might have been different in your case, but you are also looking at a minimum price of 3,500 EUR/m² (about 325 USD/ft²) for standard features... ask yourself why.

As mentioned before, you can save a lot of money on floors and walls because doing the work yourself is not rocket science, and serious mistakes that could damage the house in the long term are unlikely.

In the basement, where it is not as important anyway, you can even try tiling yourself. A professional tiler charges 50-70 EUR/m² (5-7 USD/ft²) just for labor, not including tiles and small materials.

It rarely stays at 30 EUR.

In my opinion, the original poster is more likely saving 30-40 EUR per m² (3.3 ft²). For an area of, say, 60 m² (645 ft²), that's between 1800 and 2400 EUR. If that doesn't bother you. Sure, they can also put designer tiles in the basement if they want.

By the way, I have 10 EUR tiles in the utility room. At least in the hallway, those would have been a better choice everywhere, looking back.