A staircase rug is also soft to the feet.
Carpet versus hardwood on stairs.
Slippery carpet stairs are however not as dangerous as hardwood floors since they provide a soft landing thus the fall will hurt a little less.
I was not a fan of carpeting before moving into my current home where the stuff covers two stairwells and the whole second floor.
Cleaning and maintenance of hardwood flooring and carpet.
Carpeted stairs will obviously accumulate more dust and dirt.
Which is right for me.
Carpet on the other hand would muffle those high traffic sounds and make for a safer stairway.
Carpet is the safer choice.
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.
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.
Hardwood or carpet on stairs.
The adage better safe than sorry definitely applies to stairs.
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.
If you do have hardwood stairs you may want to consider a runner to increase safety.
I was barefoot having just taken off my slippers that merit their name.
This noise may be a result of children once young kids learn all about the staircase they will use them relentlessly.
The alternative is real hardwoods for our main floor and stairs both up and down and throughout the hallway.
Where carpeted stairs really excel is in houses that have noisy stairs.
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 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.
When it comes to safety.