Thinking about wooden flooring

This is all really helpful - thanks guys.

I know this will all be down to personal preference, but which would you choose - laquered boards, oiled boards or stained boards? I've had different opinions from the couple of places I've went to on which is best but they're selling it, so they're gonna like the particular product they're selling - so I thought I'd ask the professionals.

Personally (and correct me if I'm wrong), I'd have thought an oiled board would be easier to maintain - if one area gets more wear, that one area can be re-oiled, but with a laquer, the whole floor would need to be redone???
 
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Hi Alison

An oiled finish always comes out on top for me.

Last year, Heathrow airport revamped all of the previously lacquered floors with oil for precicely the reason you mention.

Woodstains look like "woodstains" i prefer the natural beauty of the wood to show through!!
 
Hi Alison

An oiled finish always comes out on top for me.

Last year, Heathrow airport revamped all of the previously lacquered floors with oil for precicely the reason you mention.

Woodstains look like "woodstains" i prefer the natural beauty of the wood to show through!!

I second that. Oiled floors even become more beautiful over time (if you apply regular maintenance to it, every 5 -6 months)
 
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I kinda thought that. We don't seem to have that many hardwood flooring specialists here and I'm limited where I can go. Went into a place today and said I was looking at oiled - they had one style and the salesman kept telling me that laquered was the way to go - oiled boards were high maintenance, if I spilled anything on them, I'd get a watermark, they were harder to keep clean because of the grain (but I thought that was brushed and oiled that had a grain - you can get smooth oiled boards?), I'd be on my hands and knees buffing away for years, laquer was easier to keep clean, blah, blah blah.

Is it only oak that comes oiled? I really like some of the tropical woods with the slightly more reddish tones but everywhere I've been, if they've got oiled, it's oak.

And why is it that salesmen ALWAYS try to turn you away from what you want? I go in, all armed with all the information of what I want, and come out thinking that I must be really stupid cos yet again, they've totally confused me!
 
And why is it that salesmen ALWAYS try to turn you away from what you want? I go in, all armed with all the information of what I want, and come out thinking that I must be really stupid cos yet again, they've totally confused me!

Seriously - stick some carpet down. You know it's for the best.

Then send for the Kirby Vacuum Cleaner salesmen, they'll keep you occupied for hours :LOL: :LOL:
 
Is it only oak that comes oiled? I really like some of the tropical woods with the slightly more reddish tones but everywhere I've been, if they've got oiled, it's oak.

And why is it that salesmen ALWAYS try to turn you away from what you want? I go in, all armed with all the information of what I want, and come out thinking that I must be really stupid cos yet again, they've totally confused me!

Many wood-species are now available as pre-oiled, not just Oak.

As for sales-persons of the kind you encountered: they should be there to serve the client's wishes ;) and keep up to date with all modern methods and maintenance products. (But some/most only receive training in selling, not in what they sell - pity).

Oiled floors are not hard work, you won't get white water marks when you spill something (although, if you live in a hard water area you could, but also on lacquered floors. Then again, those white marks are more easily removed from an oiled floor without damaging the protective finish than on a lacquered floor ;))
Your sales person was dead set on selling you a lacquered floor, so he lists a whole list of issues (most of them not true) to "guide" you to what he wants to sell to you (more commission?)
 

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