wood flooring: revamp herringbone pine or new oak planks

silvercar

Just had a visit from wooden floor installers/ repairers. We currently have an old pine floor that has been sanded and varnished by pervious owners to an inadequate DIY standard and then left uncared for.

Now face 2 choices. Either have it resanded and varnished or replaced with new oak veneer flooring.

Pine flooring is herringbone, so slightly dated. This would be the last time it could be sanded as its getting thin near the tongue and grooves so could crumble in places. Reckon it could last 5-10 years with TLC (eg no stillettos).

Oak veneer would have 20 year guarantee, 6mm thick oak surface. Would be easier to install. should last 40 years allegedly. Would add a height of 20mm to flooring.

Price of oak would be £4,000 including sorting out doors etc and trims. full install service including moving emptied furniture etc.

Price of revamping pine is approx £2,000.

Logic says its worth spending the extra now rather than having to do it all again. It would also look nicer I think. Any views on whether I'm being spun a tale. The guy says the difference in price is less than the cost of the oak because the job is quicker to do as the oak comes pre-treated and laying in planks means the whole downstairs doesn't need clearing in one go.

silvercar

anyone help?

susieb1967

how many sq. metres is your floor?
£2000 sounds a heck of a lot to revamp, I think the installers are trying to get you to part with £4000 to get the new flooring, because as you say the diff doesnt seem that much. If I were you I would get a seperate quote from someone who revamps floors only ( i.e to sand and finish existing flooring) and you may see a big difference.

silvercar

About 40 sq. mtr across 4 rooms.

poppet

without knowing how big the room is (in sq mtrs) its difficult to tell if 2k is a fair price for a refurb.
You can expect to pay between £25-£45 per sq mter depending on where abouts in the country you live and how dirty and dmaged the floor is.

I only know of 3 companies that give a 20 yr guarentee Boen, Foresbec and Kharrs. if youve been quoted for any of these products you can rest assured that its a very good product. The guarentee is a obviously from the manufactuer and not the installer, so the wood istself is guarentted but not the fitting. The "guarentee" itself will be a doculment that you will have to fill in and send back to the manufacturer after the installation is complete - and this document will be given to you by the installer, some installers offer a guarentee and then "forget" to give you the paperwork, so make sure your fitter gives you all the relevent docs before he heads off itto the sunset.

silvercar

more info, thanks for previous advice.

re-vamp recommended people quoted £2822 + VAT.

price for new oak is £4,250 +VAT. the new wood is engineered oak 6mm of oak on top of layers of something else "Engineerd floorboards with an 6 mm top layer and an 15 mm birchplywood basis layer. These floor boards can be installed floated without any problem and they have the same wearing layer as a solid floorboards." from fbhout.com:

http://www.fbhout.nl/assortiment/product.php?id=103&lan=en

the people that quoted for the new oak said they could revamp (but with the provisos in my original post) for about £2,000.

Near London and the area measures about 47 sq mtrs to explain the pricing.

My thoughts are that the revamp should be possible, but then logically I should take the cheaper quote, but the people with the cheaper quote were telling me it may not last long and I should go for the new stuff.

Also confused because the "replace with new" people said I've got pine and that is likely to wear quicker and the re-vamp people said you can't tell what the wood is until you sand off the colour thats there at the moment.

Also the revamp people said they can glue loose pieces in and fill gaps whereas the "replace with new" people said that once the grooves are gone I would be stuck.

These are the only 2 people that have been recommended to me so I'm a bit stuck at the moment.

Specifically like advice on the oak in the link and also whether I should stick with what I've got or go for the new.