Solid wood or engineered board

[petewood]

I would like to lay an oak floor onto new chipboard in an extension to be used as a kitchen. I have been reccommended either solid oak or 'super six' board which has an exterior ply back with an 8mm oak layer on top. There is quite a big price difference, the engineered board is the more expensive but I feel it would be more stable.
I do not want to use any kind of laminate with mdf of chipboard core.
Does anyone have any opinion as to which would be the best choice?

 

[WoodYouLike]

Hi

In areas were there can be more moist (like Kitchens) we always recommend wood-engineered flooring. The super 6 (6mm top layer on 15 mm waterresistent plywood) is an excelent choice. We know it's more in price then solid, but you will have less problems in the (near) future.
Super 6 is also know as Duoplank.
Have a look at our profile for our website or look at our ad in 'Find a Supplier': Flooring supplies' in the Ashford Kent area (TN24)
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[Thermo]

just laid engineered solid oak in my conservatory and utility room. It looks the dogs danglies, went down like a dream, was easy to work with and it only cost me £20 m2

Thermo

 

[petewood]

Thermo, where did you get it at this price, woodyoulike, I cannot find your site.

 

[breezer]

woodyoulike, I cannot find your site.

thats is because they are not allowed to advertise it, but as they did say

Have a look at our profile for our website

which is permitted

 

[WoodYouLike]

Thermo: what is an engineered solid oak floor? Do you mean 'composed' solid i.e. two strip solid (like Junkers have) where two separate solid strip are glued together making one T&G board?

Petewood: please check my profile for our web address. If I put it down here, the moderator will remove it again.

Or, being sneaky:
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Moderator

not sneaky enough (nice try though)

 

[petewood]

Don't these moderators have anything better to do?

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Moderator

We don't make the forum rules !!!!

 

[WoodYouLike]

specially when you are one of the advertising companies on their site

To be honoust, this was a geneuin piece of advice, not just blatent advertsing in this forum.

And I can never find the profile of someone who isn't online at the moment, hasn't posted a new thread or isn't the last one in a thread to have palced a post: how to you then find a profile??

Anyroad: take my name, put hyphens between the words and take a good guess at the rest.

 

[masona]

And I can never find the profile of someone who isn't online at the moment, hasn't posted a new thread or isn't the last one in a thread to have palced a post: how to you then find a profile??

See this
Just type the name you're looking for in the "Search for Author".

 

[WoodYouLike]

Thank Masona

Never to old to learn something new.