The alternative is real hardwoods for our main floor and stairs both up and down and throughout the hallway.
Carpet versus hardwood on stairs.
This noise may be a result of children once young kids learn all about the staircase they will use them relentlessly.
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.
Where carpeted stairs really excel is in houses that have noisy stairs.
Which is right for me.
If you do have hardwood stairs you may want to consider a runner to increase safety.
Hardwood or carpet on stairs.
The adage better safe than sorry definitely applies to stairs.
Carpet is the safer choice.
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.
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.
A staircase rug is also soft to the feet.
Carpeted stairs will obviously accumulate more dust and dirt.
Hardwood is a good because high traffic throughways would benefit from a durable low maintenance flooring.
Besides most homeowners with nice wooden stairs wouldn t be considering carpeting in the first place would they.
Safety should always come first an as unbelievable as it may sound a carpet will not prevent you from slipping and falling down the stairs.
When it comes to safety.
I was not a fan of carpeting before moving into my current home where the stuff covers two stairwells and the whole second floor.
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.
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.
Carpet on the other hand would muffle those high traffic sounds and make for a safer stairway.
Hard surfaces are slippery and can easily lead to a fall.
Having carpet on the stairs doesn t necessarily prevent falls but it helps to provide traction compared to hardwood.