I recovered a dance floor from an old VFW hall many years ago, it was a ton of work to recover the vintage birdseye maple flooring and make it useable. Six or seven decades of accumulated wax, beer, and dirt meant pretty much resurfacing it on at least three faces to make it installable. The floor was drop dead gorgeous when it was done, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do that much work again. If the old flooring were in much better condition to start with it might be worthwhile.

I think OP means the brand " Vintage".

Both are Canadian. Mercier a pioneer in prefinished engineered hardwood out of Quebec. Vintage from Toronto Ontario. Mercier under Species list White Oak, Erd Oak and Oak. Oak, is Red Oak treated with a color neutralization process.

You can choose white oak from Mercier BTW

As already said, both are good Canadian manufacturers, so I don't think there's an obvious bad choice here. I've also heard good things about Vintage from some local Toronto installers Robar flooring and others.

Between those two specific floors, I'd lean toward the rift and quartered white oak if the extra $3/sq. ft. isn't a deal breaker. I like the straighter, quieter grain, and rift/quartered material tends to move less. That said, I'd still ask to see a few boards from actual cartons of each - milling consistency, finish and grade variation can tell you more than a sample board.

rweigand -- do you have pics of that floor?

The competitors are flat cut wide plank European Oak. Different oak species without the upen grain of N.American white/red oak. The look you can get has grain cathedrals and swirels with prime grade. Some knots in rustic grade. Not as yellow red orange. Pale brown tones with matte finished wate tp 11 inch widths. Eucalyptus and birch hadwood r poly. Rift cut is available but not necessary. Every flooring manufacturer has product. Hakwood, DuChateau, Monarch Plank, Hurst Hardwoods, Armstrong and many more in 7 to 11 inch widths to show off the flat cut. Core needs to be eucalyptus or birch hardwood plywood. The top layer is 4 or 6mm which gives the same refinishing options as solid tongue and groove. The products are made in Europe and SE Asia.

@porkchop_z5b_MI "rweigand -- do you have pics of that floor?"

Sorry, no, it predated digital cameras, so projects of that era went pretty well undocumented.

Thank you all - I will decide between preverco and mercier!

Can’t wait to see the finished project!

Get a box and lay it all out in your light/space. That way less tonal variation and other surprises.

If, you have the budget go with Mercier. Definitely the better quality of the two.

Preverco isn't bad. A good value purchase.