Are additional costs for wood-look floor tiles normal?

Larger tiles have more warping, even expensive tiles. Ideally, they are then laid pre-sorted and with a leveling system. Larger formats therefore need more adhesive underneath. Cutting work is significantly more laborious because it needs to be done more precisely.

Interesting topic, as we are also considering having tiles in wood look installed later.

Especially the surcharge (which will probably also apply to oversized tiles not in wood look), which apparently varies a lot, is interesting. :-/

Hope this is not too much off-topic, but does anyone already have the tiles finished in the house and could provide example photos from finished rooms? Most pictures found on Google image searches look too "unreal."

Regards

You simply have to keep in mind: 1) Surcharge is given. 2) Fair surcharge represents the additional effort. 3) Defensive surcharge says: I have so much to do. Leave that. I don't want that at all. It all confuses me. Karsten

Hi,
a surcharge of 26.3 euros is really cheeky, but there’s not much you can do about it. For us, it was 16 € for 90*22 cm wood-look porcelain stoneware.
This consisted of a surcharge for laying porcelain stoneware instead of tiles (because it requires a different adhesive during the day, which is about 4-5 euros/sqm more expensive) and the rest was a surcharge for the larger format.
The floor has to be level anyway; with 120*30 it might of course need some smoothing.

Craftsmen are currently charging astronomical prices. The only way to resist that is to make it clear to them that with such prices, you will expect an absolutely 100 percent flawless job. In other words: your tolerance for errors should be absolutely zero!

Those who demand astronomical prices must also deliver absolute perfection!

For us, that meant that for gaps at the edges a 6 mm wide tile had to be cut with a water jet instead of just sealing it with silicone. I simply did not accept that.
Moreover, the tiler has since come back 5 times for corrections, each time traveling 30 km. In hindsight, he probably didn’t earn much from us after all.

Regards,

Andreas

Just out of curiosity: what often needed to be revised? And regarding the mentioned gap: is it about a floor tile cut too short (leaving a gap between the tile and the baseboard) or about the planned edge between the baseboard and the floor?

Just out of interest: what was so often in need of correction?

I would also be interested, what can still be corrected after tiling?

Best regards
Sabine