Help needed for flooring, especially. Tiles vs. parquet

Hello everyone,

we are currently thinking about the topic of floor coverings.
Especially on the ground floor, we are undecided and wavering between tiles vs. parquet.

Parquet seems to be a more difficult topic for me at least, than tiles.
There seem to be variants that are suitable for underfloor heating and ones that are not. So far, I have only had laminate myself and always thought of parquet as "real wood." However, my search has mostly led to products with a 3 mm wear layer made of real wood. Basically, we really like country house planks. Is it normal to have a small wear layer, but the majority of the rest is no longer a real wood layer?

A large living-cooking area is planned on the ground floor. With parquet, the question of the transition arises. We don't find parquet in the cooking area very suitable. Tiles would have the advantage that they could be laid everywhere (hallway, WC, living-cooking area), and also that the stove in the living room would not have to be placed on a glass plate.

How have you solved this with an open cooking area if parquet is still desired?
How thick can/must planks be that are suitable for underfloor heating?

Thanks and best regards

Engineered wood flooring always has a wear layer - sometimes thicker, sometimes thinner. You can then sand it down 1.5 times.

Beneath that is also real wood, but as a carrier layer.

The flooring must be approved for underfloor heating, which most types have. Typically, the boards are 15mm thick.

We have tiles in the kitchen/utility room/hallway, parquet in the dining/living room. The transition is then made with a stainless steel strip.

Thank you very much for the quick reply. I understand from this that the kitchen is a separate room with you. Could you perhaps send me a photo of such a transition? That would be very helpful.

1.5 times - I assume you mean sanding 15 times?
For some reason, I would have expected the total thickness to be higher than 15mm.

Regards.

No, I meant sanding down 1 to 5 times... depending on the thickness of the wear layer.

I don't have a photo yet because it's still being installed. It's only a separated area through a large sliding door (2m), meaning you can see the transition,

We have done it exactly as written by Sebastian79.

Unfortunately, I don't have a photo of the strip in the area of the transition from parquet to tiles.

Here is a photo of the strip in the area of the stairs => parquet:



Here is a photo of one of the rooms that was taken shortly before moving in:



The parquet is laid throughout the house except for the hallway on the ground floor, utility room, guest WC, kitchen, and bathroom on the upper floor.

Thank you, it looks good, also the combination with the white baseboards. I think we need to go to a suitable store and look at some samples.