Carpets or wood flooring?

[Celibin]

Sick of carpets looking jaded after only a few years. Thought about puttiing in wooden flooring? Is this more expensive or diff to maintain? Our neighbours have done it and it looks great!

It can be expensive, depending on the type you have put in. Some are solid wood such as oak, others have a thinner layer of the oak on top (engineered)
We ahve it throughout our house and I woudlnt ever go back to carpet

Its an investment, it will stay nice forever whereas carpets go manky really quickly IME

I'll second cyb. I love our oak floors. Carpet = alot more dusty and then hassle with the hoover and then having to get the pipe attachment for the edges etc.

Oak floors - effortless sweep or hoover and you can see whats what. I have a wet and dry hoover with a hard floor attachment and wash them about every 2 or 3 weeks and they look beautiful.

Spills are obviously easy too, just wipe em up.

Wicks have 33% off a range of laminate and real wood flooring. We are going for oak as laminate isn't as hard wearing.

I'm another with solid wood flooring. We have had it on the groundfloor for a couple of years now. I would say that it is hardwearing in the sense that wear adds character, on a carpet it just looks shabby.

Thanks so muchxxxx

Wooden floors downstairs (reception rooms), carpets in bedrooms, tiles in bathrooms. Go for as expensive as you can on the wood floors eg solid wood rather than laminate, as they will last much longer and can be sanded down to look like new again. Pick a hard wood so that it does not dent easily (maple or oak). You can try to buy a reclaimed wood floor if you want more character and to be a bit more environmentally friendly.