Carpets or wooden floors for bedrooms (allergy and asthma sufferers)

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Would anybody be able to advise me which is best to minimise dust etc? I vacuum every day but even so which floor covering would be best for allergy sufferers? I know the thinking used to be that wooden floors don't give the dust anywhere to harbour but then my friend pointed out that the carpets trap dust. I used to think this was a bad thing but she saw it as a good thing? Help!!

I would say wood.
We have wooden flooring and tiled flooring throughout. One large carpet (too large to be called a rug) for the DC to play on. I can vacuum both sides of carpet, mop the floor, then the kids run over it and you see bits of dust raise and carpet hairs on the tiles.
So, to me, a carpet traps dust but also releases and generates it whereas once the wooden or tiled floor is clean, it's clean.

Wooden floors definitely. Carpets harbour dust

Not carpets!

Why give a permanent home to dust mites?

Hard flooring unless you live in the coldest house imaginable.

cork?

Great! Everybody seems to be in agreement😊 Wooden floors it is! Thanks all.

Yeah, cork is good I had it in my house in Scotland when my three asthmatic sons lived with me. Cork all the way through the living areas. We did have a carpet in the bedrooms but very short pile. Took rugs out and beat them the old fashioned way. Amazing how much dust in them. Stopped using them in summer.

@Bowerbird5 can I ask did the cork mark /dent easily? I have three boys so I'm wondering would it stand up to wear and tear? Also did it make the room any bit warmer? New-ish build but one of the bedrooms has three external walls and i suspect they may have taken a short cut with the insulation so it's not the warmest of rooms in winter.

Wooden floors every time

We have an allergy vinyl. A lot better for us as you can't hear them thundering about like you can on wood.
Also a little warmer too and not carpet. Everyone's a winner.

@brownmoose -is that a special type of vinyl? I haven't heard of it before. Love the idea of it deadening the noise👍🏻

Was going to suggest LVT (luxury Vinyl Tile) or plank really. It can be laid like laminate with interlocking planks. Dead easy to cut, warm underfoot. We have it in the children's bathroom.

Advice for asthma suffers was remove carpets, lift duvet off the bed in the morning and drape it over a chair. Open the windows and allow the room to air. For children put any cuddly toys into bags and into the freezer to kill off anything on the toys. Hoover the room daily.

Replace curtains with blinds, less likely to trap dust. We have horizontal "wooden" Venetian ones in the bathrooms that can be washed. I believe they were from blinds2go.

Thanks @SoupOnMyTableNowSir I vacuum daily, no curtains just blinds, soft toys put in freezer & also washed and tumble dried regularly, hypo-allergenic pillows and duvets. I have to get new built-ins and beds for two of the boys as they've outgrown their existing beds and if we are going to do it, this is our opportunity to change the floors -currently just standard red deal wood that came with the house.