Sand original floorboards or lay LVT

[agentscully]

I need to choose between the two when we have some work done later in the year.
It will be for the downstairs of our Victorian terrace.
Currently have floorboards but they need filling and sanding varnishing etc. Very drafty in the winter. Difficult to keep clean. Will cost about 4k professionally.
Or, have LVT on top (karndean?), more expensive, worried about it being done properly and lasting/ looking dated. Easier maintenance, would stop drafts.
Anyone had to make a similar decision?

We made the decision to lay new floors over our floorboards (likely engineered wood) due to the draughts! With rising energy costs too I think it'll end up more cost effective for you in the long run to go with the karndean, even though the original floorboards can look so lush!

Thanks for replying. Drafts are definitely a concern, it’s just soil under our floorboards. It just seems such a shame to cover a lovely original feature.

I think floorboards look so much better (but that is just my opinion)

Put in big area rugs for insulation/warmth if you can't insulate under the boards. Also by filling the gaps / caulking between floor and skirting boards etc can massively reduce the drafts.

Insulate underneath, fill and sand, and fill gaps under skirting. Big rug.

Keep the original feature, it looks so much better than LVT!

I think floorboards look better, unless you can afford reclaimed parquet maybe.

I have them and don't notice any draughts at all though. It's pretty easy to sand them yourself if you want to keep costs really low.

We've bought a house with painted floorboards - clothes moths have settled in between the cracks - hard enough to deal with the rooms that have a cavity under the boards but one room they have insulated under the floorboards and that is a major headache - we are going to have to lift the whole floor, it's an absolute nightmare.

I wanted to go with the original features of the house so got my floor boards sanded and varnished professionally. A few years later there is a lot of draft coming from the floor and I wish I had just got new flooring when I first moved in

We’re about to get ours insulated underneath, using nets attached to the underneath.
I can tell when it’s a plastic floor and wouldn’t have considered Karndean etc. but I really love original features.