Engineered Wood Parquet or Cement style tikes for flooring -PLEASE help me choose?!

[Multitudes]

Hello.

I posted in Property/DIY but hoping I’ll get more traffic here!

I’m having underfloor heating laid in my hall and living area.

It’s a small house, front room is 12’by 16’ which looks onto a small patio.

It’s technically a new build but it was built in the shell of a Victorian factory so the exterior is old IYSWIM.

I love both looks, the tiles would make it look very Scandi-contemporary.

The wood would be traditional but so lovely too.

Bonus for the tiling is that, eventually I could tile the kitchen and the patio in the same tiles but that would be in the next 2-3 years.

I think that would add the illusion of space and make the house feel more coordinated.

Also it would contrast with the wooden stairs.

The wood wouldn’t match the stairs which isn’t a good look but I could put a carpet runner on them anyway.

I won’t sell or move anytime soon, if ever so resale value isn’t a concern tbh.

I’m stuck in a loop and the builders need to know v soon!

Can anyone help me break the cycle?

I can’t even choose between times either!

Links to the tiles:

www.stonesuperstore.co.uk/cement-urbano-porcelain-tiles

or these ones! www.wallsandfloors.co.uk/opus-concrete-effect-tiles-cinereous-grey-tiles

This is a link to the wood www.woodfloorwarehouse.co.uk/diamond-walnut-herringbone

Oh, I love dark flooring too!

Thanks so much!

Just so I'm clear, by parquet you mean engineered flooring laid in a herringbone pattern? What I think of as parquet is the mid century small wooden blocks that were glued directly to the floor.

Could you speak to your insurance company about how restrictive the builders are being?

Yes, sorry.

I meant the engineered herringbone, the builders keep referring to it as parquet.

I could try, this is my first experience with all of this type of thing, so I’m finding my way in the dark.

Which is why I’m so grateful for all of the amazing advice I’ve received here!

Nice try at spamming lots of old threads about tiles, @elevate123... Reported.

We have engineered wood parquet in our living room and grey porcelain with underfloor heating in our kitchen/family room. In a hall I would go for the porcelain every time. Our parquet gets marked very easily and although it can be sanded you really don't want to be doing this for every scratch as it is a big job. The underfloor heating is amazing and even better than I thought it would be.

We are going to be using the same tiles outside and went for the grey for this reason. I think they look great if you are going for an industrial look and you can warm the room up with lots of other natural materials, wood and metal as the grey provides a neutral canvas.

So you don't have underfloor heating under your engineered parquet, @weepingwillow22? This is my preferred combo, even though I know tiles conduct the heat better; they're just too hard and noisy for me!

No it is not advisable to have it under engineered wood. It is lovely under the tiles though. What about softening the tiles with rugs? This is fine with underfloor heating.

I've read that you can't use rugs with synthetic backing (which is most of them at my budget) on underfloor heating, as the plastics can create hot spots which can then leave the floor scorched.

I'm still going round and round in the same circles as the OP - what did you decide in the end?

Now I'm quite tempted by those square porcelain tiles-that-look-like-parquet, as the practicality is winning me over... lots of kids, lots of spilt cups of water... door straight out to the garden at one end of the kitchen/living/dining room. I may bite the bullet and pay £4.99 for a full-sized sample to see whether they look awful or are a possibility...