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

Terrazzo is not a natural stone, but I agree with you regarding maintenance – it is necessary and requires special care, but it is manageable.

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

We decided against it because we didn’t trust wood/laminate/vinyl in the bathroom and guest toilet.
However, tiles wouldn’t be my choice for the living room either. Even with underfloor heating, it still feels cold on the feet over 95% of the time.

We also decided on wood-look tiles throughout the entire ground floor. The main reason was that, with our fireplace in the living room, we don’t need an underlay, and there is no transition between the kitchen and living room (open plan). Since the utility room, guest toilet, and hallway were going to be tiled anyway, the only room left was the guest room, which we also added at the same time (entire ground floor uniform).

We will see how cold the tiles feel in winter despite the underfloor heating.

Payday schrieb:

we will see how cold the tiles get in winter despite underfloor heating

In winter, the tiles are not cold but pleasantly warm. The challenging time is the transition period, like right now. You don’t want to turn the heating fully on yet, but your feet feel cool.

Payday schrieb:
We also decided on wood-look tiles throughout the entire ground floor. The main reason was that, with our fireplace in the living room, we don’t need an underlay, and we don’t have a transition between the kitchen and living room (open plan). Since the utility room, guest toilet, and hallway are already tiled, only the guest room was left, which we then booked together with the rest (everything on the ground floor the same).

We’ll see how cold tiles feel in winter despite underfloor heating.

...in new builds, with the low supply temperatures, the surface temperature will definitely be significantly below your body temperature -> the tile floor will feel "cool." The maximum supply temperature during our coldest winter days, for example, is about 30°C (86°F).

I was not referring to the air as a medium but to direct contact with objects. Even an empty bathtub in a bathroom heated to 24°C (75°F) feels cold, whereas the room temperature itself does not. Tiles also feel cool to the touch even when the underfloor heating is on. The exception is at acquaintances’ homes, for example—an older house with wide spacing between the pipes. There, you can feel that the tiles are somewhat warm… because the flow temperature is definitely above 40°C (104°F).

And when I talk about tiles feeling "pleasantly warm" in a new building with underfloor heating running, something is not right.