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If you plan to secret nail your floor on the battens, the latter should be no more than 40cm apart, not the 60cm you're planning.

Depends really on the floor sander you're about to hire. How heavy is it, does it have a continues belt or sanding sheets (most hire centres have the latter, which I would stay away from). Maple is a tough wood species, so it will take a heavy belt sander to get any decent result. Those...

You're not missing anything, Treatex appears to have a rather high VOC content, products we use, such as Saicos HWO don't.

Have a look here. Delivered to your door ;-)

Beg to differ, and so will the European legislation in regards of VOC in HWO!

Those with a too thin a top layer (say veneer with only 0.6mm top layer) and those with MDF of HDF backing. Further more it is down to quality and grades. Don't get a too rustic grade with open large knots

Heat flow for instance

The cork is used as extra sound reducing underlayment. Every country has its own "rules and regulations" on this. If this is the case, installing the floor floating would be possible IF you are sure the underlayment you'll be using has the same sound reducing effect as the cork would do.

You've got a tropical species, which will show its natural colour when a natural clear finish is applied - no matter if it is HWO or varnish.

Basicoll PU-650SE is very suitable for UFH, and compliant with VOC regulations

The matter here: natural product with reactions to changes the house climate. The crossed backing of engineered boards (backing made of wood) will still react to this natural effect, therefore the statement is correct: wood-engineered reacts (less) to this natural effect too.

Eh, "engineered" from natural products = definitely a natural product, but more stable than a solid floorboards.

What I meant was, if you remove the existing floorboards and replace them with either new floorboards or sheet materials, these have to be at least 18mm thick to be load-bearing. Chipboard is rubbish, no matter what thickness

If it goes straight over the joist, the OP needs at least 18mm. Best also to stay away from chipboard, rubbish product which reduces your options in top floors.

Gloss is shiny on its own, satin mat is what most people select (and has the benefit of buffing to a higher shine if it is too mat for your liking)

We would recommend Saicos Premium HardWaxOil where you can select the sheen of your liking. Easy to apply, easy to maintain and hard wearing

As long as you store them in such a way they all can dry out naturally (meaning not simply dumped in one large pile)

Depends on the price you pay for them, how wet they are and how you are going to store them