To get 100 % wool carpet for stairs and landing?

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It's a tight loop and "mottled" colour iyswim.
No pets, older children. No shoes but dh often forgets 😡
I love the look and feel of it but is it too impractical?

I always read that 100% wool carpets were well known for attracting carpet moths. Having seen the damage they did to my in-laws carpet I’m not sure I’d recommend having 100% wool carpet anywhere, but that’s just 1 opinion.

Wool carpet isn't impractical at all, it's hard-wearing. The only disadvantage is it costs more than synthetic carpet.

My MIL's cleaner (for about 25 years) advised us to get totally synthetic. You can essentially pour bleach on it and it will look the same. Wool discolours when you clean it with anything but water and bicarb. But if it isn't going to be dirty or in a high traffic area, I wouldn't worry too much.

We have that, and it has been very hard wearing - only needs replacing now after over 12 years. However, agree with PP about the carpet moths. We had a terrible infestation and the same carpet, up on one of the bedrooms, is now ruined.

We have a nylon carpet in our living room and you'd not know it wasn't wool - it feels just as good - it cleans beautifully and there aren't (yet!) nylon moths to devour it.

Wool all the way. We've always had them and never had a moth. And it means I'm not static shocking every bloody thing.

If you can keep on top of the cleaning - go for it. Beautiful. BUT the carpet moths are vicious. They ate my lovely, expensive rug, (under the furniture where I didn't see it or clean frequently enough).

I'm thinking on stairs and landing moths can't hide?

Wouldn’t buy anything else. We only buy wool Berber for living room, stairs and bedrooms, the rest is hard floor. They last years, have a slight mottle so don’t show little marks. Would never buy unnatural fibre carpet.

Can’t remember last time I saw a moth tbh. Our last Berber was down 18 years!

I have a 100% wool carpet on stairs and upper landings. It feels snug and hard wearing, but we had a bad moth infestation last year.
Gruesome to get rid of ( lots of wriggly maggot creatures) , and left a few patches ( luckily in dark corners).
I now spray the carpet every 6 months with a moth killer- not ideal, but I have to be vigilant.
I won't be replacing it with another wool carpet.

We've never had moths either and never known of anyone having them, although it's obviously more common a problem than I'd imagined.

It's textured which I really like.

OP maggots can live and attack from the underside. Stairs are perfect, lots of folds, creases and corners to hide.

I got a lovely 80% wool bedroom carpet in my previous place. It was gorgeous.

The moths fucking destroyed it.

I'm quite accident prone. Having recently tripped and spilt coffee on my wool carpet on my stairs, the clean up has resulted in a fuzzy mess of carpet.

If I were you I'd go for a blend on the stairs that can be cleaned with more ease.

A wool mix ie; 80% wool seems to be the most recommend when I was last looking at carpets.

How strange, all these moths! We must’ve been lucky. Had wool Berber carpets each time we buy one since 1996, not one moth!

It may depend where you live. A few hard frosts will kill moths, I think, but "darn sarf" where I live it never gets cold enough to kill the bastards.

It's so hard to decide! Wool is so expensive so you'd think it'd be better quality?

There's been a real epidemic of moths around London I believe!

Also - worth pointing out - decent domestic nylon carpets do not give you a static shock.

Stairs and landings are the ideal places for moths to lay their eggs.

We have no carpets apart from a wool one on the stairs for noise reasons. Ten years down the line it still looks good. We don’t have carpet anywhere else for moth reasons but haven’t had any in this carpet as it’s not got any dark corners or furniture to hide under on it.

Don’t buy a looped one though because it will be a trip hazard. You need the least slippy option for stairs. There’s no way you’d slip on ours.

We have wool in the bedrooms and no carpet downstairs, just rug.
We’ve had carpet moth in one bedroom but replaced that and had no other problems in a decade.
The joy of wool is that it is hard wearing, can be wiped clean of most spills and is warmer than synthetic. Static electricity is less of a problem too.

https://www.edeltelenzocarpets.co.uk/collection/c/diversity-205/]]

It's this one. Says guaranteed against moths!?

More opinions welcome!