Stripping floorboards in 1920's house

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I would be grateful for some help.
We bought a period house for the first time and moved in about a month ago. Unfortunately I've realised that the downstairs has been covered with cheap laminate whereas I thought it was a solid wood floor before moving in. Although it looks the part I can't live with it! I hate that it takes over 20 minutes to dry when I mop and you can see footprints even when it's dry. It feel very plasticky. So I'd like to know what would people do in the first instance: get a quote to have the laminate removed and floorboards stripped (I have no idea what condition they're in) or go straight for a wooden foor to be fitted on top of the floorboards? Which one is likely to cost more and what are the drawbacks of having stripped floorboards?
Thanks

If your floorboards are in good condition then they will be fine - you might need to get them filled to cover any gaps between the floorboards (but that's not big or complicated to do). It will depend on how they've put the laminate down though. Or why. Are they covering up something horrendous?

I don't know! I hope not.
Just why someone would use the cheapest laminate in a period house just escapes me! Well I suppose it fooled us when we viewed the house so if they were trying to give it a makeover in order to sell it did work!
Tbh, I am worried about the upheaval of stripping the boards. Everyone days it's just a nightmare.

Everyone says

I'm stripping some of the boards in our 1930's house.
I did a bedroom a couple of weeks ago, using a £50 hand held sander from b&q.
It took a day to do.
Then another day to do 3 coats of varnish.

The floor looks great.
Our boards are tongue and groove, so very few gaps.
Dh replaced one board that was damaged.

I'm doing our bedroom floor tomorrow.

It's not a hard job.
I've done it in a previous house, using a hand sander again.
There was a bit of dust round the house, but nothing horrendous.
Just remember to keep your doors closed.
And wear a mask.

You can remove the old laminate yourself, it should come apart easily like a big jigsaw.

We took the laminate up to reveal a concrete floor in our 1880s house -gutted!

Have done it in a previous house and it was a horrible job -every nail of which there were hundreds had to be knocked in
Industrial sander made dust fly everywhere and edges done by hand

Looked fantastic when it was done though

Hi everyone. I've been quoted around £20 per square meter plus VAT plus repairs to have the floorboards stripped. Is this reasonable?

Hi, we have a 1930s semi and we should be receiving our quote for lifting up all boards in dining room, living room and hallway, nailing in thick celotex, bars to hold this and relaying the boards. A carpenter will do this for us.

My DH will hire full size sander and then oil/ coat for us.

For the lifting up and insulation, we are expecting around £1200 for labour and material. This is around 27 square meters.

Will then have to add sander and materials.

Already done the sanding and varnishing in another room a few years ago and it was horrible work. My Dh rocks!

When I get the actual price, I'll come back and let you kknow

Thank you!
Another quote came in at £1,000. It looks like the floorboards had been previously treated and sanded. It's even more puzzling why she put laminate down? I hope we're not in for some nasty surprise!

In the past I painted the floorboards in a bedroom a good few years ago. I didn't sand. I filled the gaps with excess paint. Just did a four layers of PWB and two layers of clear varnish. I often get compliments on the floor.