Put new floor on top of solid hardwood?

[DfEisashambles]

I had my heart set on a solid wood floor which would be a huge job to take out existing oak flooring and install it.

Flooring specialist is telling me that engineered wood would be just as good and would be easily go on top of existing solid wood.

It sounds cheaper, better time wise and less mess but I’d lose some of the height although not much.

Does engineered wood look as good as he says?

Would you prefer to have the old floor taken out and have solid wood?

Is your current floor the floorboards, or wood laid on top of floorboards or a hard subfloor?

@NHSEA it’s one layer of hardwood oak flooring on top of joists, which is beautiful but worse for wear now!

DfEisashambles in that case you should be able to lay a should be able to lay solid wood planks over the top of them. I am not an expert but was told when I had my floor fitted that you could fix hardwood over wood flooring. If you have a hard floor sub-floor, which I do, then you need engineered. Someone may come and say different...

Engineered is fine, mine looks really nice, and I can't tell the difference from solid wood planks. It goes down quickly as most of it is now click fixing. I think the solid planks need to be glued and/or nailed to the sub floor.

I got my engineered floor for this company www.doorsandfloors.co.uk/products-category-solid-wood.html and the prices and service were good.

Have you had a quote for refinishing your existing floor? My brother has solid oak and has just done his himself and it's come up really nice, but he knew what he was doing. It's not something I would attempt myself!

Can the hardwood flooring not be sanded down and refinished?
I thought that was the only advantage that solid wood has over engineered wood?

Re does engineered wood look good - yes it does, it is a thin layer of solid wood bonded with other layers of wood so it doesn’t expand and warp like solid wood does. But it looks exactly the same because the top layer is just wood.