Tiling and Wood floor

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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?
 
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Which is thicker and are you worried about a step?

i would put the thicker floor down first and then fit the thinner one, packing it up to get the level you want.
 
Thanks - wood is 16mm and tiles are 10mm, plus adhesive for both

The visible join between the two is 2 lengths each about 1m - 1.5m long, and I would have thought getting the levels to within say 2mm would look fine - is that reasonable, both in terms of looking ok and being achievable?
 
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The tilers are telling you to let them tile first, so the problems left to the other guy; they don't want any hassles. But you can't level wood in the same way that you can juggle tiles, so you might be better using a jointing strip.

To be honest, I don't think you'll be happy with the results though.
 

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