Please provide a bit more detail. What is elevation in this context? What climate zone are you in?

@Rock Doc: Are you addressing this to me? I haven't actually bought these tiles yet - when I do, I will definitely be going for the handmade ones. They're a work of art and irreplaceable in my opinion. However, there are also screen-printed tiles available in the market in more or less the same patterns; the workmanship is of course different, but you get them cheaper, and they're also more easily available. You could give that a shot. I'd recommend Aakaar Flooring Solutions - they're here on Houzz and are able to provide both the above-mentioned types.

The hassle with square wood-look tiles is that they look too artificial. The only way to avoid that would have been to lay them with the grains alternately- vertical, horizontal- in a chessboard pattern. However, you do get tiles in 6" x 24" which you can lay in a break jointed pattern as shown here. They mimic the look of decking planks

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