recommendations for where to buy reasonably priced good quality solid oak flooring please?

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thanks! my builder recommends some but i'd like to know if it is competitive and make sure i have done some shopping around. and i will use a different supplier if anyone has a great one to recommend!

anyone?

We have just had some Wickes 'real' wood aka engineered flooring laid. I was nervous on 2 counts:-

1. That engineered wood would be somehow inferior to sold wood and,

1. It would be crap from Wickes!!

We paid £20 per sqm (maybe a tad more) as the wood was on special offer, reduced from about £28 per sqm. I had spent quite a lot of time looking in other shops - particularly the local indpendent types but they wanted more like £40 psqm plus nearly £20 pm for laying

I have to tell you that we are absolutely delighted with it - it looks fabulous. It looks expensive i.e. not at all like laminate and I think was great value for money. The one we went for was the oak real wood floor.

Hope this helps

I've got mine from the Solid Wood Flooring company. They have a website where you can see their stuff and are really good at advising you on how much you need, appropriate underlay etc. Mine is lacquered and has withstood any amount of toys being banged on it and marks (even paint!) just wipe off.

If you're in London they have a display stand at the Building Centre so you can see samples of the wood

thanks for both these comments. i have had samples from both these places. mmmm. now to decide. we have sharp stones on our drive and enter straight into kitchen so not sure lacquered is best one and almost certainly going for engineered as we have an aga.

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We got Butterscotch engineered Oak Floor @£20pm2

You cannot get cheaper or better - the quality is excellent

Homebase et al want at least £35pm2 for the same quality and the indies/john lewis are all at least 50/60pm2

DH laid it £1k for 50m2 with the fiberboard underlay

Looks unbelievable

wow. i will def go and check out wickes. thanks.