Wood-look tiles - What do you think of these tiles?

We also decided on wood-look tiles for the living area and are very happy with them. The size is 80x20cm.

Hello Yvonne,

I love tiles! With different surfaces (rough, smooth, wavy, matte, glossy, dull, reflective, broken), sizes, formats, patterns, grout widths, materials, and installation, there are so many endless possibilities to design a room.

That's nice for you if you like them!

But wood-look tiles, in formats that in my opinion offer less design flexibility? I just want to understand how a person comes up with the idea to put wood in the form of tiles on their floors.

My favorite is glass mosaic, with which you can cover any curve in a bathroom

Yes, these little pieces are funny... in bathrooms or otherwise elsewhere. My parents stuck mosaic tiles on a wall in the 70s. Let me tell you, they got tired of the different formats so quickly — and I better not say anything about the color — that the sheets disappeared very quickly under a fiberglass wallpaper.

Rhenish greetings

I do not understand mosaic tiles, on the one hand, today people make large-format tiles to have as few grout lines to clean as possible, on the other hand, they make mosaic tiles with endless gaps.

Hello Dartagnon

I don’t understand mosaic tiles again. On the one hand, nowadays large-format tiles are made so that there are as few grout lines to clean as possible, on the other hand, mosaic tiles with endless gaps are made.

Have you ever seen a shower spiral? I can’t find the picture from the respective construction project right now – there, 8 x 8 cm paving formats were used where such a shower was installed. Therefore, the attachment is provided as an example; the tile color is of course a matter of taste.

When it is clad with mosaic stones, it is quite a chic thing; meaning, here the use of small formats in mesh form makes sense.

Edit: the 2nd picture shows a section of an image from a construction project handed over last year, where a mosaic was also used.

Rhenish regards

But it doesn’t improve care – many people forget this with their walk-in showers: that the grout often gets dirty after years of use and the cleaners tend to attack/remove the grout. We will look at terrazzo shower trays with a screed layer in the next few days.

Just reading on their page
Two-layer is probably more suitable for underfloor heating?

Yep

We also decided on wood-look tiles for the living area

Is there still grout on them or are they naturally that light?

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

Everything gets copied nowadays anyway

I don’t understand mosaic tiles though. On one hand, people make large-format tiles these days to have as few grout lines to clean as possible, on the other hand, they make mosaic tiles with endless gaps.

One goes small, the other big

We are looking at terrazzo shower trays with a screed installer these days.

I would rather worry about the care of natural stone like terrazzo – after all, many cleaners contain acid... I wouldn’t entrust natural stone to a cleaning lady.

We have glass mosaic again in the shower, with a wall at the back as an accent: the two-component grout adhesive is almost maintenance-free: we run a squeegee over the tiles and wipe the fixture dry, that’s enough.

In the old house, we had 10x10 tiles on the countertop. Since we took over a kitchen and patched the countertop on several corners for our needs, we tiled it. Here, too, we used an adhesive/grout filler that is also used in chemical labs – acid-resistant and very expensive, but it was easy to clean.