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Define "better"
- easy to install
- easily available
- no nail heads in it and doesn't need sanding (if you're thinking about reclaimed pine)
- maybe less draughty
- maybe warmer
VS
- looks less original
We of course spent a fortune on [the cheapest] exactly the right width and age reclaimed pine.
- easy to install
t.o.-
Define "better"
easy to install
easily available
no nail heads in it and doesn't need sanding (if you're thinking about reclaimed pine)
maybe less draughty
maybe warmerVS
looks less original. unless you just get engineered wood that looks the same, minus the squeaking, warping and knotty bollocks.
Also put in insulation & UFH, after removing no doubt years of builders rubble, and clearing out any air bricks.
NotThamesWater
Extension in a Victorian terrace, which will include replacing the wood floor across the ground level of existing house to match... Currently it's a wibbly-wobbly wooden floor, not original. I'd like to put pine floorboards back in, just as the house would have had, even in the new part. But I'm being told that engineered wood would be a better choice. Thoughts?