Carpet vs hard flooring

Keep_pedalling

Real wood + some nice rugs, but if the flat has anyone living below, for their sake fit carpets

DigForVictory

Card carrying fan of carpet here. Not least as we managed to cover the floor using "ends of rolls" and thus got some beastly expensive pure wool carpets at affordable rates per metre.

Do agree hard floors have their place (ground floor parquet & Lino after all) but the right Vax means carpets can be cleaned without needing a cooperative weather forecast...

zoothornrollo_2

For hallways, stairs, landings - floorboards or laminate best cos they get most traffic and dirt. Maybe with a hard-wearing runner though.
For living room / bedroom - carpet.
Quite like bare floorboards in bathroom too.
Kitchen, tiles, stone or amtico.

SplanK

Each to their own really. Relatively speaking, flooring would generally be replaced by most people anyway over time to their own taste. I think in terms of resale, as long what ever flooring is down is reasonably maintained and can be lived with until funds become available then its not such a show stopper.


There are benefits to not having carpet, such as an asthma, eczema and alary suffers but should be maintained to keep it clear from dust.


Kitchen/Bathrooms really should be some sort of hard floor for hygiene reasons, however the house we bought last year came with carpet fitted in the downstairs loo and en-suite (now ripped out and replaced with lino!)

pollypenny

Carpets, apart from dining room where the path from hall to kitchen soon looked dreadful.

Kitchen and bathrooms have tiled floors, of course.

Snakey

I was all for carpets until I found moths in one of mine a few weeks ago! Now I'm super-paranoid and want wood.

I'm in a flat and there is a requirement for a certain type/depth of underlay/insulation stuff if you don't have carpet, so I'm still mulling over whether it's feasible or not (because I think wood has to be glued down?), but I've always liked parquet flooring. I had it in my last rented flat and it was lovely. Not cold, easy to keep clean, and looked and felt nice.

I am on my own, no pets, no allergies, and take my shoes off as soon as I get in, so I'd be ideal with carpet, and it's also warmer and quieter, but. Moths. Meh.

Still thinking it over.

I wil be watching this thread with interest.

Kim_kim

Snakey wrote: »

I was all for carpets until I found moths in one of mine a few weeks ago! Now I'm super-paranoid and want wood.

I'm in a flat and there is a requirement for a certain type/depth of underlay/insulation stuff if you don't have carpet, so I'm still mulling over whether it's feasible or not (because I think wood has to be glued down?), but I've always liked parquet flooring. I had it in my last rented flat and it was lovely. Not cold, easy to keep clean, and looked and felt nice.

I am on my own, no pets, no allergies, and take my shoes off as soon as I get in, so I'd be ideal with carpet, and it's also warmer and quieter, but. Moths. Meh.

Still thinking it over.

I wil be watching this thread with interest.

That happened to my friend, behind her sofa.

Slinky

Carpets in the main for us apart from vinyl in the kitchen and bathrooms, and karndean in the office and sunroom.


The place we're interested in buying has an original Victorian tiled floor in the hall and dining room and boards everywhere else apart from stairs and landing which have carpet. Vendor has a lot of rugs down. We used to have a rug in front of the fire, but our cat decided she likes lying down, flicking the corner up and bunny kicking it. We took the rug up in the end. Don't know what we'll do if we buy this place, cat could have a field day if they leave the rugs.

red_imps_2003

My wife and I are both carpet people. Possibly because this is what we grew up with. Also, as you may have seen from other threads, we both appreciate quietness and hard floors are not sympathetic in this respect. Hard-floored rooms feel cold and echo-ey to us. I can certainly appreciate the low-maintenance nature of hard flooring, though, and we would never carpet a kitchen, bathroom or outbuilding. Our current kitchen is tiled (not our choice) but we prefer the slightly cushioning nature of lino (which is just as easy to wipe down, albeit probably less durable).

As others have stated, it's horses for courses. I can see why many prefer hard floors but we are just not comfortable with them. For some with children hard flooring appeals because it is easier to clean mud/spills/bodily fluids off it; for us, with children, carpet is more appealing because it mutes the sound of them running around and throwing/dropping things all the time. Different sides of the same coin and all that...