Crack between tiles and baseboard??

Hello everyone,

our house is in shell construction, with roof and windows. We will tile the floors completely.

What would you recommend, baseboards also made of tile material (we would cut them and have the edges sanded) or (white painted) wooden baseboards? Visually, I can imagine both.

I have heard that the tiled floor (or the wall??) still needs to dry / settle or something similar, so that if you install the baseboard shortly after, a crack / gap / space can form between the floor and the baseboard???

Can the material used either promote or prevent this?

You also can’t really delay installing the baseboards for a long time... Then the tiler would have to come a second time and wouldn’t that interfere with the interior plastering? Isn’t a tiled base done before the interior plaster? Would the wooden baseboard be screwed onto the interior plaster?

So as you see, I’m a bit confused, and my goal would be to avoid a gap between the floor tiles and the baseboard.

Thanks + regards

Normally the sequence is as follows:

Interior plaster => screed => heating => let everything dry properly => lay tiles

We have chosen matching "baseboard tiles" as baseboards for the floor tiles we selected.

With tiles, there is still a silicone joint between the tile and the baseboard to make everything look neat. However, this often cracks if applied immediately.

I can't imagine wooden baseboards on most tiles. We have white wooden baseboards with our parquet, which fits well (wood to wood).

Hello, thanks to both of you.
So the interior plaster comes first.

What is shrinking so that the joint cracks? The screed?

Does that mean you would have to wait longer after the screed, then only install the tiles + skirting?
Or do you perhaps install the tiles first and then wait weeks before the skirting is done?

Regards

After installing the screed, you have to wait until the screed is dry enough. The tiler only lays the floor tiles when the residual moisture is below a certain value.

In our case, the tiler only laid the floor tiles once everything was really dry enough and then immediately installed the skirting boards.

2 weeks earlier, the tiler had left without completing the job because the residual moisture measurement showed that the screed was still too wet.

Ah, thanks. That means waiting until the screed definitely has a correspondingly low residual moisture. And that way you also didn’t get any cracks, right?