engineered wood floor?

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We would like a wood floor for our new kitchen and also in the linked family room and also little dining room. We want underfloor heating which means no solid flooring I think, just engineered.

I'd like it to look as natural and "genuine" as possible and would be grateful for any advice and any stockists I could look at samples with etc.

Also - there seems to be either lacquer or oil finish - latter leaving more of the grain etc to "feel" but seemingly needing re-oiling once or twice a year - anyone have any experience of whether that is necessary and whether its a real pain??!!

Thanks in advance everyone!

We got ours from Go Direct - their service is fantastic they have just done a small repair for us under guarantee. Looks like they are now called Terra Flooring. We had an Admonter floor (last pre-kids extravagance!).

If you get it oiled with hardwax oil like Osmo, it should be bullet proof, never wears off.

Definitely no risk of damp in the kitchen?

You can have underfloor heating with a solid wood floor, it just depends on the width of the floorboards. And turning the thermo up on the UFH really really slowly once the flooring has been fitted