Engineered oak flooring, where to buy?

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Some very kind family member has offered me money to lay oak flooring in my dining room. It's roughly 12 square meters and I will have £500. Will this be enough and where is a good place to start looking?

Hang on just sending DH to have a look, we got some great stuff.

Thankyou, I'm hanging on, Dorset.

uk flooring direct are good. We bought some lovely oak flooring from them a couple of years ago. They often have special offers on too.

Did you people lay it yourselves or not? How easy is it to lay and how expensive is it to pay someone else to do it? I'm worried about my £500 budget.

here, really good, we went for solid not engineered, 40 square metres was something like £1200. Get samples.

DH lay it himself, we have a house with no square rooms, so more difficult than usual.

Thankyou for your answers, I'll get looking at those sights . Few more questions, is thicker better and what about finish, oiled or laquered? Will be taking a lot of wear from the kids.

Ours is oiled, in playroom, one DC's bedroom and will be in bathroom. so far so good, easy to sweep and mop.

this is the one we got

DH laid ours, pretty straightforward and the co were very helpful when we rang to ask questions about what goes under the floor etc.

Thanks, I like the look of oiled, and want it to go with my kitchen worktop which is also oiled oak. Dining room and kitchen are open. The oak floor will butt up against the kitchen floor which is stone. What do you put there? A joining strip or what? Opening is 2 m wide and planks will run end on to the stone floor . Sorry didn't explain that very well. Could we lay one plank the other way as ajoining strip along the opening?

On that website I think they have something that goes between wood and other floorinf at doors.

We've just had oak put in the whole of downstairs. We got ours from UK flooring direct, builders laid it and I waxed myself as I wanted a grey finish on it and didn't like any of the colours on the samples I ordered finicky cow. Our also runs into the kitchen floor and the builders have done exactly as you describe with one plank laid the other way. 'Tis lovely.

Thanks for all the useful info, am now getting quite excited. Will get samples after christmas, looks like I should be able to get some decent stuff for around £30 /m, so my £500 could cover fitting costs , hopefully.