Oh right.. I wasn’t criticising your comment, my post was a little strong sorry 🙂 I was just curious for the reason you’d say that, which sound reasonable.
I think it was probably easier and cheaper for us to do the floating thing too. Although, I’ve noticed a few issues now it’s been down for three years or so. Two or three of the pieces have ever so slightly warped so that there are a few gaps between some of them. Just half a mm or so, and only one of them is noticeable from a certain angle in a certain light.. but still. Probably wouldn’t have happened with nails.
I’m reasonably happy with the job we did but I really made a total balls up of the thresholds 🙁 Gonna have to re-do them.
Re price, we paid £18/m2 from Floors 2 Go. It’s thick golden solid oak finished in some kind of tough PU varnish which is matt and holding up spectacularly well. The slight warping notwithstanding.. not sure if that’d have been better with more expensive wood or not.