Are your oak floors site-finished? I have floors in my house that haven’t been refinished in 20 years and we’re only then done due to a burst pipe. I have multiple dogs and grandchildren who have been here a lot over tho 20 years. Mine are white oak, site-finished with a “gym floor” high glass poly f8nish. Look as good today as they did when first done.

You know, it's funny that someone posted on this thread just now. Just two days ago, I ended up accidentally dropping a plate from normal carrying height in the kitchen. The plate shattered and ended up scratching two planks. Well, one of the planks is more like a gash, while the other one has two surface scratches. Not bad, but still kind of annoyed. My original floor installers will replace the planks for me with my spares whenever they install some new baseboards in my garage in July. Other than that little incident, my floors have been pretty durable over the last year with no real issues, although I did freak out once when my bug guy dragged my stove out from its spot to spray. I told him to not do that again. I did, however, send a snarky e-mail to Mowhawk, telling them that they probably shouldn't market a floor as "scratch resistant" while conveniently excluding scratches from the warranty. It is what it is, I guess. I still haven't done my upstairs yet, which probably won't be until next year, but rest assured, I'm going to always make sure I have extra boxes of planks at all times. Better to overprepare than underprepare. As for the creaking. I still have some creaks in a few spots and do notice some "play" in certain areas around the perimeter, but these are typically in areas that I never walk on.

We haven't liked any LVP due to the matte finish and low profile. We think, from research, the mohawk water resistance (marketed as waterproof) line of revwood plus is a great option for us (but would love opinions and reviews). However, the only color sample we liked was edgewood copper oak and it's not love, but likeable. We love the colors of their engineered hardwood line (and the shine that comes with it!). Java birch primary or coffee Hickory. It says aluminum oxide finish which is what the better lvp use so wondering if we can consider engineered hardwood even though we have dogs, young kids, etc. It is not water resistant and this will be our whole main floor, including kitchen (but downstairs bath would need a different floor...probably lvt). Thoughts/advice?

Did you end up installing Chamois oak? I'm considering it for my new home.