Engineered vs solid wood Sycamore flooring

[KRIP18]

Hi everyone, I have been looking at putting wood flooring on our first floor and have fell in love with Sycamore. I have found one provider of engineered sycamore and a few different providors for solid wood boards - including tongue and groove machined.

 

The solid flooring is about 1/2 the price of the engineered. We would be doing around 70 metres so this difference has a huge impact on the overall budget!!

 

This will be going onto a plywood subfloor with no underfloor heating and no plan soon to install underfloor heating. Is putting down solid wood, tongue and groove with glue just a whole hassel that I should pay my way out of by going for engineered? 

 

Thoughts/opinions/tips all greatly appreciated :)

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Engineered is designed to be more durable In my experience less prone to problems and easier to lay 

[SimonD]

12 hours ago, KRIP18 said:

The solid flooring is about 1/2 the price of the engineered.

 

Does that price include the adhesive and laying of the solid wood floor? Another thing to consider is full floor buildup as if the engineered floor is installed as a floating floor you'll gain additional acoustic benefits between floors.