Floating floor

So might knocking the price of a new floor off the asking price, and its less work ;-)

Laminate or real wood or engineered? (or click together vinyl tiles)?

Budget?

Engineered wood. Budget is tricky, I don't want to waste money, but I want to increase the sale value of the house. £40 per m^2 seems ok.

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Sounds like you're looking at paying way too much. Get reclaimed floorboard s down. Laying atop the old will only add more issues to fix.

If you must fix on top, try thin ply.

NT

Don't bother.

Buy a cheap carpet or paint the floorboards.

It's seldom worth doing serious work for a house sale - you just want to spruce it up so the initial impression is "light, airy and clean".

Are you planning on selling *soon* or is:

"will help to sell the house"

really

"will help to sell the house should we ever get around to it (so I'll throw that in to try to get the new floor I want to live with)"?

Did you check that the doors would open with an extra 14mm floor height?

Can not you sand the existing floor?

When this place was done up! Victorian 9" boards, badly cupped and gappy, the builder stapled down thin ply which we carpeted. The main bathroom, shock/horror, has 12" cork tiles but no movement or visible dents.

They make saws for that ;-)

The existing floor is sanded. When we moved in, the house was divided into four rather grubby flats with nasty cheap green nylon carpeting. The carpet was laid over hardboard which had been stapled to the floorboards. Whoever stapled it very much enjoyed stapling, there were thousands which I removed, then sanded and varnished the boards. That was the best we could afford at that time, and it was fine, but really the boards aren't in great condition with their myriad small double holes.

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They would need to be trimmed.

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Moving has been on the agenda for a few years, but the round tuit is hard to find. It's the sort of house which would benefit from a highish spec interior to appeal to yuppies^W young professionals.

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It's only a couple of grand. More than I'd pay for a car, but not a lot for something nice.

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Alot depends on the type of house IME, and how sympathetic that style of floor seems in it. In a "high end" property, a luxury floor may be well be an influence - especially if it happens to be the same as the one the prospective buyers would have chosen.

It might be worth getting a valuation of the place and discussing with the agent what influence such changes would have on price.

If its a case of selling soon, then 10 to 14mm engineered wood + underlay will be cheaper that you you might choose to go for if planning on living with it for a longer period. You should be able to get something at £20/m^2 all in.

I paid about that for 21mm engineered oak...

I can see that paying off if you are going to modernise and improve the whole house to a consistently high specification and style. But not if it's just the floor.

Shop around carefully including Ebay. I did my through lounge with very nice oak faced ply based stuff for a lot less than 40 quid a metre - about half that. Needed about 50 sq yards. Bought on Ebay and delivered by the importer. It's a bit of a minefield trying to compare what you are actually buying, with retail price not necessarily the best guide. Somewhere with a posh showroom has to pay for that.

Everyone I know in rented property that has a wooden (laminate) type floor have used lots of rugs to cover it.

Would the property sell better with the poor floor being disguised with a wooden skin or with fitted carpets?

Multi-tools rule. ;-)

hardboard and cheap carpet to sell.

New floorboards to keep.