Oiled or lacquered wood floor?

[Zoidberg]

I have read most of the threads in the archive and I still can't decide which to have, please help, am driving myself bit barmy.

It's for lounge-diner, we have one DC age 4 will not be having more, and a cat. The house is late Victorian. It's engineered wood going on a concrete floor.

I thought I had finally decided lacquered due to feeling I couldn't keep up with the maintenance on an oiled floor. However I've since read that maintenace of an oiled floor is wiping oil all over it, is this true? I was imagining something more difficult. And some people seem to do it less than annually and the floor is okay, any experiences?

And what's putting me off the lacquered a bit is, I didn't realise that it will definitely need resanding and refinishing, maybe in as soon as 3 years! Or so I have read. I was working on the basis that it wouldn't need this for 20 years.

I'm not an expert but I can tell you that my Kahrs oak floor looked perfect after 7 years and three unruly boys! We never sanded it and it didn't have a scratch. If anything it looked better than when it was laid because the colour was richer. I think if was lacquered but I really don't remember
I think what matters is the quality o the floor and picking a hard wood

We have solid oak in our kitchen - I was determined not to have lacquered mainly as I dislike the sheen on it and the way the sun shines into our kitchen it would show up every mark. I went for an untreated wood and applied Osmo Matt floor wax. Very easy to treat just a couple of layers needed and a light sand after. The floors been down a few yrs now and still looks as good as when it first went down.

Thanks both. I keep wondering that about the light shining on the lacquered but the south end of the room has the dining table and chairs so less to be seen than the middle-north end, where the sheen will help lighten the room.

I think I'm coming back round to lacquered because although on one hand, oiling once a year doesn't sound a massive job, I just know we won't do it often enough in practice.