Carpet vs hardwood or laminate on second floor with bedrooms
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Comments (4)I have to agree with Lynn. Laminate flooring is great for starter homes, maybe basement flooring, etc. but it will not last like hardwood. You can have extra coats of finish applied to your hardwood if you are concerned about the dogs and kids but it is a "renewable" product. It can be sanded and refinished over and over again! I just don't understand why people want to use laminate when it is just a "faux" product; of course price is a factor but every laminate floor I have walked on looks and sounds so cheap! I have hardwood floors with dogs and grandkids and have never had a problem. There are scratches but they are not noticeable and are not deep. Engineered floors are a little bit better than laminate but, there again, they can only be sanded once or twice then you have to replace! Good Luck!...See MoreCarpet vs hardwood "aging-in- place"--carpet or hardwood??
Comments (7)My mother is 85 years old and has Parkinson's, so she has trouble getting around. I am keeping her in mind with your question. I would go with a low pile carpet, if you were my parent. It is softer for when she falls down. Mom has hardwood in her foyer, dining, and halls, and although they are beautiful, they are mostly covered with throw rugs, which are a tripping hazard, but less slippery for her. She has trouble with getting a "grip" on the floor when standing up, and carpet helps with that. Wheelchairs will run grooves in a hardwood floor....See MoreMaster bedroom - hardwood floors vs carpet
Comments (4)You don't think dust settles on carpet? It does, and you don't see it. But you do an awful lot of walking in your master with bare feet, grnd dust in with foot oils The rip out when you realize it looks like hell in two years? No thanks !! . Do the hardwood, find a lovely large patterned area rug. In a couple short years, you will thank yourself, and enjoy a higher end look in the meantime. Use the swiffer......: )...See MoreHardwood on 1st Floor and Laminate on Second, similar or different ?
Comments (4)The flooring on the upper floor (aka bedrooms) can be different from the flooring in the main/public areas. I would pick a colour that is present in the Hickory wood sitting on your main floor and see if I could find a laminate that falls into that colour story. This will add continuity without competition (as little bug and Sina point out). Now the two issues you are about to face: the STAIRS (dun dun DUUUUUUN!!!) and the NOISE. Sigh. Carpets get rid of a tremendous amount of noise. Carpet keeps noise from escaping OUT of a bedroom as well as prevent it from ENTERING a bedroom. Here's what I suggest. Go ahead and rip out the carpet in the upstairs and then LIVE with noise/echo of the subfloor for a week. At that point you will either feel you have an INCREDIBLY well built house (unlikely but always a possibility) OR you will discover how LOUD everything/everybody really is (99% chance of this happening). And that's where you will start your 'carpet replacement' discussion. I have always said a cork floating floor (installed just like laminate) is a great carpet replacement. It is warm, soft and quiet. It deals with 80%-90% of the noise that carpet deals with. It is a 'like for like' replacement for carpet. Laminate is not. Laminate is a hard, rigid surface just like your subfloor (that you found to be quite loud). An acoustic underlayment can be used (QuietWalk Pro or 6mm cork underlay will do the trick) to keep noise transfer from "up down" noise. But it won't help with noise exiting the bedrooms, moving down the hallway and entering another bedroom. Only cork and carpet prevent that. Once you have chosen you material and the underlay thickness you can then tackle the stairs. This gets HORRIBLY tricky. I'm assuming the carpet is on the stairs as well? Right, now we have to keep the stairs to code so that the height of the rise is EQUAL all the way to the TOP FLOOR! That means you have to adapt all the tread/risers to match the FINAL height of the floor+underlayment. Zoinks. And I haven't even TOUCHED on the floor leveling needed once the carpet is removed. Carpets hide the WORST subfloors in the world. These subfloors are thin, wavy, pitched and are of low-grade materials (often fibre board sits on top...which does NOT like patching material). To get a rigid floor (floating or otherwise) you will need to level that subfloor. That's going to eat up $2-$4 per square foot ($2/sf is quite common...$4/sf is not likely but it has happened in REALLY sh!tty builds). And now that the subfloor has been leveled, you have to reassess the stairs. Or you can replace carpet with carpet. This may not be ideal if there are allergy suffers or asthmatics in the house...but it is always an option when replacing existing carpet....See MoreRelated Professionals
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