Combined tiled and wood floor

[James999ft]

Hi,

We are about to fit flooring to a newly built kitchen / diner and will have hexagonal tiles on part of the floor and engineered wood on the rest. Tiles will cover about 12 sqm (including hall and toilet) and the wood about 24 sqm.

Every tiler we have spoken to has said we should put the tiles first and leave the wood fitter with the problem of matching levels, whereas every wood floor fitter has said do the wood first. We have not yet found the perfect answer of a person who can do both

Is one of tiles or wood objectively easier to put down first, or is everyone just saying (understandably) leave the hard bit to the other guy?

 

[foxhole]

Does not matter unless you are matching the floor levels at join, then timber needs to go in so tiles can be levelled to it. Otherwise a ramped threshold will be required which can be fitted by either trade.

 

[crazydaze]

As above, if anything needs levelling, it's best to have the tiles levelled to the wood, with regards profiles, from experience, get the wood fitted first and ask the wood people to cut the profile to size/shape, but get the tiler to fit it. In our neck of the woods, tilers are a law unto themselves when it comes to finishing to any other flooring, or indeed, leaving a half decent finish to fit a flooring too, and that includes even finishing tiles in the right place in a door architrave.