The alternative is real hardwoods for our main floor and stairs both up and down and throughout the hallway.
Carpet versus hardwood on stairs.
Besides most homeowners with nice wooden stairs wouldn t be considering carpeting in the first place would they.
A staircase rug is also soft to the feet.
Where carpeted stairs really excel is in houses that have noisy stairs.
Which is right for me.
Carpet is the safer choice.
Hardwood is a good because high traffic throughways would benefit from a durable low maintenance flooring.
Carpeted stairs will obviously accumulate more dust and dirt.
The adage better safe than sorry definitely applies to stairs.
Beautiful hardwood stairs will be ruined by the addition of carpeting because the tack strips need to be nailed down creating holes in the wood.
Carpet on the other hand would muffle those high traffic sounds and make for a safer stairway.
Cleaning and maintenance of hardwood flooring and carpet.
I was not a fan of carpeting before moving into my current home where the stuff covers two stairwells and the whole second floor.
Installing hardwood floors can cost between 9 and 12 per square foot compared with about 3 to 5 per square foot for carpet so some homeowners opt to install hardwood floors only in some.
Having carpet on the stairs doesn t necessarily prevent falls but it helps to provide traction compared to hardwood.
If you do have hardwood stairs you may want to consider a runner to increase safety.
I m even more of a detractor now that it has caused me to fall three times on the stairs with the most recent incident on monday drawing some blood i m not an especially clumsy person.
One main floor option is hand scraped laminate with carpet up the stairs to the bedroom where carpet will be the entire upper floor then carpet will also go down the stairs from the main floor to the basement rec room and guest space this will be some kind of floating floor.
When it comes to safety.
This noise may be a result of children once young kids learn all about the staircase they will use them relentlessly.
Hard surfaces are slippery and can easily lead to a fall.
In addition should a fall ever occur carpet offers a much softer landing spot than wood flooring which could help reduce the likelihood of injury.
Hardwood or carpet on stairs.