Carpet / hard wood?

[TheOpalFox]

I have light grey carpet and it gets mucky so quick . I’m thinking of having hard wood flooring? Anyone else got this ?
Is it good? Better than carpet ?
Hate how quick this floor gets mucky 😞

What room? Hallway flooring kitchen and bathroom. Living flooring. Carpets on stairs and bedrooms.

No shoes or food upstairs.

I have wood block floor on my entire downstairs and it’s always looks gorgeous. So easy to keep clean 😊

Weve just moved to a house with beautiful wooden floors in the downstairs rooms and Victorian tiled floors in the hall and toilet. They look gorgeous but I really hate them and will get carpet laid in the living and dining rooms as soon as we can afford it. We had pale carpets in our last house and while they had to be vacuumed most days, I much preferred the warmth of carpets to bare floors and I think the right carpet looks much nicer when it’s just been hoovered. The noise of walking on the bare floors also drives me mad.

It really depends on where the carpet is used. My rule of thumb is stairs and upper floors go for carpets (except bathrooms) for sound insulation and you’re more likely to be barefoot or wear slippers, and ground floor is best with hard/smooth flooring. The only exception being GF bedrooms and possibly a large lounge, where carpet can make it feel a bit cosier. I’m a big fan of wooden flooring but if you have underfloor heating you’d want stone, porcelain, ceramic tiles or LVT (I know some wooden flooring is ok for UFH - but wood is an insulator so is less effective than tiles etc.).

If you do put tiles on an upstairs bathroom, remember to have the floor reinforced to avoid flexing that can cause cracks in the tiles.

I prefer wood floors throughout except for stairs (and tiles in the bathroom/kitchen). Certainly it's much easier to keep clean.

Wood is much better IMO but obviously can scratch and is difficult for animals to get a grip on.

Carpets get filthy, can contain mites and parasites. They are also horribly environmentally unfriendly. They habour dust, so much worse for people with allergies.

Wood or something else like laminate or tiles all the way for me.

Wood floors throughout, excluding bathroom and possibly kitchen.

Wood all the way. With rugs for cosiness and a stair runner for safety.

Why are carpets horribly environmentally unfriendly? They are just wool and hessian.

I hate the cold echo you get with hard flooring, although I will admit that there are certain spaces where it is far more appropriate than carpet.

I have wood flooring and ceramic tiles throughout. I can't bear carpets, filthy things that they are, and DH has allergies so I can't have them anyway.

Because most modern carpets are made from man made synthetic fibres, so made using fossil fuels and use a lot of energy to make them.

And then disposal of them also means landfill as they have too many layers to recycle and pull apart, or if you burn them they release toxic chemicals into the environment.

Iv changed all downstairs to wood. Much less dusty.

Iv kept carpet on stairs. Bedrooms Iv put vinyl down.

Wood everywhere for us, including bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen. It's engineered with some surface dents and the dogs are fine with it. It's easy to keep clean and very welcoming. Have some rugs and a runner on the stairs. It seemed like a bold move, and I did think about wood effect tile - but luckily was talked out of that! Good luck with your decision.

My house had cheap nasty carpets throughout when I moved in. A muddy garden and dogs made swapping to wooden flooring was a much more sensible idea, as it is SO much easier to keep clean!

I stripped all carpets off when I bought my house and we are just working our way through restoring original wooden floors room by room. I love the feeling of wood under bare feet and it's much easier to keep clean. Natural wood also feels much warmer than laminate but I do have an area rug in one room as it doesn't have a radiator so the floor is colder than the rest of the house.
One of the rooms had new carpets fitted not long before the house went on a market and when I took them out, there was so much dust between the carpet and the underlayer that I don't believe you can keep them clean and pest free with the best will in the world.
I think wall to wall carpet is quite a peculiar British preference. In Continental Europe we just throw a nice area rug over the wooden floor in winter which can be taken outside and beaten to get the dust out in Spring.

I like wood and tiles downstairs and carpets upstairs (except bathroom).

I don't insist on shoes off downstairs, but do upstairs. I find it easier to keep hard floors clean.

We are building a house and are having engineered wood - not laminate yuk- throughout with underfloor heating, with the exception of carpet in the bedrooms and tiles in the bathrooms. I love the look and feel of wood, and it either doesn’t show the dirt or is easy to clean !

I have recently ripped up my stair carpet and have filled, sanded and painted it all white.

No carpet anywhere in the house now and I absolutely LOVE it!

So much easier to keep clean - but I am blessed to be living alone so no noise or mess other than what I generate myself 😆

This.

Plus they have that weird crumbling backing.

Actually I think there should be a tax/ban on environmentally unfriendly carpets. The amount going into landfill must be horrendous.

We've recently renovated a derelict house. We made downstairs all one level and have UFH with tiles. Eufy wizzes around no issues and its easy to clean if the dog gets mud/grass on her feet.

Upstairs we have woodpecker, solid wood oak in the hall and all bedrooms. It looks to be on sale now. https://woodpeckerflooring.co.uk/product/york-rustic-oak/?gl=11a7ijniupMQ..gaMTYwNTA0NzE1LjE3OTMyMDU3Nzk.gaS7GMEJQSW3czE3OTMyMDU3NzgkbzEkZzEkdDE3OTMyMDU3NzgkajYwJGwwJGgyMDU2NTIxMTUz
We do have some rugs, but haven't finished moving everything into the house yet. I do like carpet in bedrooms, but after a massive moth infestation in a previous property I was was reluctant to have wall to wall carpets again.

Plus they have that weird crumbling backing When we removed the moth infested carpets, the foam underlay was a vivid, green dust! 1 room was a spare bedroom which might have been used 3x a year, yet it too have crumbled away to nothing. I have no idea what chemicals were in that green dust!

So, carpets are only horribly environmentally unfriendly if you choose to buy synthetic. Which you don’t have to.

Of course... but at 5 times the price for wool, most go for synthetic.

And if you do choose wool- see my post up thread about moth infestations! 😬

I like wooden flooring downstairs up carpet in the bedrooms

Can’t stand the laminate wooden floor to noisy

we have real wood flooring with rug, although looks lovely is cold . With quarry tiles in kitchen which is also cold .

carpet looks lovely if you live on your own with no shoes on it ever,
with family , carpet can look completely different after 2 years down flat, can see where you walk on it daily.