Experiences with wood-look tiles / Villeroy & Boch in general

Hello everyone,

background: Unfortunately, we have had a huge disappointment with our vinyl from a brand manufacturer (mineral-based, advertised as pollutant- and PVC-free). After just 7 months, the tongues/grooves have broken in many places and we have lots of surface chipping :-( The floor certainly won’t last more than a year, which is really extremely annoying. Especially since we installed it ourselves and even if we get the floor reimbursed (which I hardly believe – they are already making excuses…) it will surely only be for the material cost and not for the many many hours we spent installing it (we also had a lot of waste because corners and tongues often broke during the installation).

We are now considering having tiles installed and are looking for gray wood-look tiles for the kitchen, living room, and hallway. We will probably leave the other rooms as they are for now.
Do you have positive/negative experiences with a certain product or manufacturer?

Are Villeroy & Boch tiles generally recommendable? Surely many have used them?

Thanks!!!

Really no one?? :-(

This is a brand, not better or worse than other brands.

Pay attention to pattern repetition (the more, the better), abrasion and ... there was something about chipping or something like that.
Maybe someone else knows that.
In general, long tiles are more expensive to install.

We have installed the "Tuxedo" tile from Villeroy & Boch throughout the house. 30x120 plank tiles. They are more expensive, as first of all Villeroy & Boch, and also the tiler naturally costs more due to the size of the tiles, but they are sturdy, great in pattern, and the tiler reported back that he has rarely laid such straight and uniform tiles in this size (and he has been "in the business" for quite a while). He was very impressed and so were we. So far, I can only report good things. Unfortunately, I cannot contribute anything in comparison to other manufacturers/brands...

I wouldn't flatter myself about Villeroy & Boch as a brand. Not better or worse than other products. Always look at wood look in person, pictures are worthless. I would first check if you can have tiles laid. Vinyl is very thin, if you want to lay tiles instead, it gets stuck at doors, stair transitions, etc. Therefore, I advise every new builder against vinyl. Many don't realize how much they are committing themselves with it.

We have some from Marazzi. They look very nice and feel great, very straight and dimensionally accurate. The best is simply to look at what you like in the tile studio. Internet photos and opinions of others help little in this regard.