And the winner is..............

Traditional method, un-finished timber floors.............

After much research and the fact that the floor needs to be laid before the doorjambs and skirting have been installed, we have decided to go the raw timber floors.
The reason for this is that they will be sanded and polished after handover and hopefully the tradesmen won't do any serious damage to the floor, and it's only scratched a little and can be sanded out.

I am very anxious about it but the majority of the work will have been done and hopefully nothing bad happens.

I did do some re-search on the pre-finished floorboards and came up with these difference compared to the traditional method.

1: They are installed just like unfinished floorboards however they are all the same size and can look a little uniformed or tile like .

2: No need to put up with stinky smell from the urethane, however the boards have a bevelled edge and the surface is not smooth.

3: A friend of mine has the pre-finished and complained that the polish chips if you drop things on it. I did see it and have never seen that happen with normal floorboards but of course they would get a dent or scratch they are timber after all.

Just a few observations that I made, here is hoping we have made the right decision!