We have a cold crawl space under our flooring. Put engineered wood (hickory with no edge bevels) over a 1/4 inch cork underlay. Never noticeably cold and easy on the feet. My wife loves the floor. Warning: dropping knives or cast iron pans will damage engineered wood. We've done it! Also my wife knocked over a whole bottle of super glue on it and didn't wipe it up (she didn't notice it). That was/is a mess. Much scraping and still there are scars. I will have to sand and refinish the spots at least to make it look decent.

Di you check with the manufacturer? The manufacturer of my flooring had specs and recommendations for glues. My installer said that all installers have their preferred products, so I used something that the manufacturer recommended and that he was also familiar with and comfortable using.

@ TONYA FOSTER Kentwood is a good brand that we show at both our showrooms. The look and feel of their products is quite trendy and attractive. I wish wear layer of their engineered floors could be thicker and 2 mm. Sample boards matching actual floor order has been a challenge to floor dealers in the past couple of years. This is why you heard DuChateau sent approval box their dealer/home owner before shipping the actual floor order in the previous part of this discussion. Could you post a picture of sample board and picture of your floor received?

@jysoccer - problems with the installation company. We had existing floors that were fine - so there was no hurry on the installation - so we ordered the product and were prepared to wait several months before it arrived. A month later, they called us, said the product was in. We then scheduled the demolition of the existing floor and installation - about a month from then. We then made arrangements for ourselves, our pets to be away the week of the installation. I called twice more to verify the start date. We then packed up our entire upstairs, put all our stuff into boxes, and moved it out of the way and moved to a hotel. Day of the start - no one showed up. No call either. I called three times to find out what was going on. Finally - they said, well they went to the warehouse to get the materials and half the order wasn't there and they had no idea where it was or when it would get there. Moreover, they had forgotten to coordinate with the folks demolishing the floor, so that didn't get going. Then what followed was a series of miscommunications, promises, failures to follow through, etcl that turned a 4 or 5 day job into a 3 week job. All this over the absolute busiest time of year here with every hotel booked for about 50 miles in every direction. So yeah, we're not happy with the installation team. also, there was some sloppy work that ended up having to get covered with shoe molding, which was not our preference. So - some lessons learned. Mostly not to use the installation company that we did. . .but the floor is finally in and it looks pretty good.