Cuz no one wants to step on those.
Carpet or wood stairs.
If you have children seniors or sleepwalkers in your home wood stairs may not be the best choice in terms of safety.
This is our stairs before.
Carpeted stairs require regular vacuuming and an occasional cleaning to keep them in top shape.
To avoid damage to the wood stairs they used a cat paw and hammer to gently remove the tack strips.
Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting.
And then they had to work on removing the staples.
Jenna shows you how she did it here.
Wood is louder than carpet.
Wood stairs can be slippery and there s not much cushion if a fall were to happen.
Hardwood stairs are easy to clean and maintain with a broom and a mop.
We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.
The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.
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The transition to the carpeted stairs was easy but important.
The result was a clean transition from wood to carpet.
Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
Functional builder grade stairs stairs that exist only to move people from point a to point b with zero concern for aesthetics can be improved with carpeting it is difficult to fix unattractive stairs because they do not lend themselves to painting carpet works wonders on stairs like this.
If you decide that wood stairs are a must have for your home but you re concerned about safety there is a way to compromise.