ᐅ Wood-look tiles – What do you think about these tiles?

We also chose wood-look tiles for the living area and are very happy with them. The size is 80x20cm (31.5x7.9 inches).

Hello Yvonne,

ypg schrieb:

@Bauexperte
I love tiles! With different surfaces (rough, smooth, wavy, matte, glossy, dull, reflective, broken), sizes, formats, patterns, joint widths, materials, and installation methods, there are so many endless possibilities to design a room.

That's nice for you if you like them!

But wood-look tiles, in formats that, in my opinion, offer less design flexibility? I just want to understand how someone gets the idea to put wood in the form of tiles on their floors.

ypg schrieb:

My favorite are glass mosaics, which can be used to cover any curve in a bathroom

Yes, those little pieces are fun... in bathrooms or otherwise in other places. My parents glued mosaic tiles to a wall in the 1970s. Let me tell you, they got tired of the different formats so quickly – and I better not even mention the color – that the sheets were soon covered by fiberglass wallpaper.

Regards, Bauexperte

I don’t understand mosaic tiles. On one hand, large-format tiles are made today to minimize the grout lines that need cleaning, but on the other hand, mosaic tiles are made with endless gaps between them.

Hello Dartagnon

Musketier schrieb:
I don’t really understand mosaic tiles. On one hand, large-format tiles are made these days to minimize grout lines that need cleaning, but on the other hand, there are mosaic tiles with endless gaps.

Have you ever seen a curved shower? I can’t find the picture of the related construction project right now – they used 8 x 8 cm (3 x 3 inches) paving-format tiles for a shower like that. So I’m including an example here; of course, tile color is a matter of personal taste.

When these are covered with mosaic stones, it actually looks quite stylish; in other words, using small-format tiles on mesh backing makes sense here.

Edit: The second image shows a detail from a project handed over last year, where mosaic tiles were also used.

Best regards, Bauexperte

But it doesn’t improve maintenance – many people forget this with their walk-in showers: after years of use, the grout often gets dirty, and cleaners tend to damage or wear away the grout mortar.

In the next few days, we will be looking at terrazzo shower trays with a screed installer.

Bautraum2015 schrieb:
Just reading on their website
It seems that a two-layer system is better suited for underfloor heating?

Yep

MissFilou schrieb:
We also chose wood-look tiles for the living area

Is the grout still on them, or are they really that light?

Bauexperte schrieb:
I just want to understand how someone comes up with the idea to put wood in the form of tiles on their floors.

Nowadays, everything is being imitated anyway

Musketier schrieb:
I don’t understand mosaic tiles. On one hand, large-format tiles are made today to minimize grout lines to clean, but on the other hand, you have mosaic tiles with endless gaps.

Some prefer small, others large

Lexmaul79 schrieb:
We’re looking at terrazzo shower trays with a screed installer in the next few days.

I would be more concerned about maintenance with natural stone like terrazzo—after all, many cleaners contain acids... I wouldn’t trust a housekeeper with natural stone.

We have glass mosaic again in the shower, with one accent wall at the back: the two-component grout adhesive is almost maintenance-free; we just use a squeegee over the tiles and wipe the fixtures dry, and that’s enough.

In our old house, we had 10cm x 10cm (4 inches x 4 inches) tiles on the countertop. Since we took over a kitchen and had to patch the countertop in several places to suit our needs, we tiled it. Here too, we used an adhesive/grout filler that’s also used in chemical labs—acid-resistant and very expensive, but it was easy to clean.