Carpet or not?

Carpet lover here!
Had new carpets throughout done last year, lovely😃The old ones were 12 years old so had done their time.
Hard floors in kitchen, loo, bathroom.
Had lots of hard floors in previous house, cold and hard work as dust shows up daily and noisy.

I would have laminate flooring with rugs that do not slip in all the appropriate places. Seems to work for us.

I inherited oak floors downstairs and the stairs and our bedroom. The other bedrooms were carpeted and the landing.
I don't think you can make a one size fits all statement you have what suits you. We put a large rug under the bed so we both have carpet to step out onto and rugs in the rooms with oak boards.
They both have got equally as dirty we are always shampooing the rugs and vac and washing the wood.
I agree with Calastimon you can hear much more through boards, especially from the kitchen which is ceramic tiles,
We have no pets only DH who doesn't mind a walk around in outdoor shoes or walking boots.
The other odd thing I have noticed is a lot of dark blue fluff in the upstairs bedroom with no fitted carpet and bathrooms, I often wonder if it is some sort of filler or insulator that is escaping even into the wardrobes.
The stairs are hazardous for anyone in stocking feet, especially grandchildren. "Slippers is constantly being said.

Lovetopaint037

Ditto but different furniture!
A good carpet fitting firm will move all your furniture for you and move it back - but you'd still have to empty out the furniture and put everything back again.

Dark blue fluff, yes we get that too in the bedroom mainly.
I tracked down the cause, it was DP’s navy blue towelling dressing gown as he wandered about it was shedding.Still does, many washes later.

Oreo

Franbern

Another advantage of any sort of hard floor, is the ease of moving furniture on them. Carpeted floor means that sofas and even large armchairs can be quite impossioble to move as we get older. However, on my Karndean floor I can easily slide my riseer/recliner chair to clean underneath it (Iand find things I have dropped), also electric sofa and my tv table pulls out easily on those occasions I need to get behind it to the spaghetti. I could never move any of these when I had carpet in that room.

Why keep spaghetti there?😄A late night snacker?

I'm assuming Franbern means the tangle of leads behind the TV. 🍜🍝 😁

Definitely carpets for bedrooms. And, for added comfort and good looks, wool-mix ones with underlay. Worth the extra expense.

So-called bedroom-quality carpets show wear and tear much more quickly than the ones for general use.

I have laminate flooring downstairs and, as soon as it was laid, the whole house seemed so “echoey”. Yes, it’s easy to clean but I do miss the cosiness and noise absorption of wall-to-wall carpeting.

Laminate/hardwood flooring is what we have in out home in all the house bar the stairs.

I wouldn't go back to carpeting. Wooden type flooring is easy to clean and kept swept.

No vac needed. We just have a small hand held mini vac for the stairs.

They wear much better and don't get clogged, worn and dirty like carpets.

We have never noticed sound traveling anymore than with carpets

Definitely carpets in bedrooms and on stairs - my choice is kitchen and bathrooms non carpets rugs elsewhere

Hard flooring amplifies noise and the tippy tappy of dogs paws.
Prefer carpets now and a top quality vacuum cleaner.
In my ideal world, carpets would be lifted in spring, and stored in a vast extension - that doesn’t as yet exist ( this task would be completed by a team of super agile staff of course) then all put back in the autumn🤗 I’ll dream on….

I think the problem with carpets is that you can't buy decent vacuum cleaners any more. Legislation limiting the maximum power of the things mean they don't suck properly. Manufacturers have tried to get round it with cordless ones but in my experience (Which best buy Dyson, too) they simply aren't as good as they used to be. I now have a second hand Miele 2200kw and it would suck the nails out of the floor boards given half a chance.

I had all the downstairs carpets removed last year; we have tiles in the kitchen, utility room and hall, engineered wood in the living room.
Carpets on the stairs and landing, bedrooms and vinyl in the toilet and bathroom all done at the same time.
We’re a shoes off household, the hard floors are a doddle to keep clean.

My DH wanted carpets throughout but I persuaded him to have laminate in the hall and carpets elsewhere apart, obviously, from kitchen and bathrooms. I am now pleased the carpets are on the stairs as I think there is less chance of slipping, in the bedrooms feels warmer and in the living rooms as they are upstairs.

Calendar girl ,If your husband is the one who wants the carpets, have you suggested that he does the hoovering?

Carpets for me, except in kitchen and bathrooms. My carpets are pale colour, twenty years old and still look immaculate. When I shampoo them the water is hardly dirty. But, I live alone, no outdoor shoes past the front door and no pets or young children to make anything grubby. I really don’t like the look or feel of bare floors, cold, hard, noisy.

Emptying a vacuum cleaner is unpleasant and tiring, as is getting the bloody thing out of the cupboard. Hard floors need only a soft bristled brush and dustpan and occasional wet mopping.

Caleo

Emptying a vacuum cleaner is unpleasant and tiring, as is getting the bloody thing out of the cupboard. Hard floors need only a soft bristled brush and dustpan and occasional wet mopping.

Oh, I was just thinking of giving my rechargeable vacuum cleaner a whirl ....
Perhaps not 😁

i don't like wooden flooring, all house is carpets, bedroom was 20 years old and needed replaced, my son was buying it for me and we decided on lino, it looks like wooden flooring and is easy to keep clean.

I don't like carpet. But my house has bare earth under the joists and floorboards (old house) and was freezing all the time. Underlay and carpet keeps it warmer. But yes, I hate the grubby carpet. Drives me mad.

Have carpets everywhere I feel there more homely, I find wooden flooring cold and unwelcoming.

Carpets! Hard flooring produces lots of floating dust that's a demon to chase down! Carpets are warmer and quieter too. Or split difference and have wood flooring round edges and huge area rugs?

Caleo

Emptying a vacuum cleaner is unpleasant and tiring, as is getting the bloody thing out of the cupboard. Hard floors need only a soft bristled brush and dustpan and occasional wet mopping.

Emptying a vac tiring? Blimey how big is yours? 99% bagless now and easy emptying specially cordless. Flooring need proper cleaning and is not "clean" with an occasional sweep! Likewise carpets need to be cleaned regularly and modern cleaners accessible so no excuses ,

Since vacuum cleaners are synonymous with carpets, may I share with you all, my deep annoyance that an upright cleaner that has disposable dust bags has become as rare as rocking horse poo.
These horrid transparent canister types make emptying the thing a grotty, sneezy faff even if the machine itself is very good and nice to use.
There is a make called Sebo, it is German made and very expensive even second hand/reconditioned. They get used in hospitals a lot.

We have felt backed vinyl up and down,only carpet on stairs and on the landing. It is so easy to mop or a quick sweep.

ooh I kept my powerful heavy sebo upright, it is in my garage, great machine, cleans the garage floor beautifully, I covered that floor with soft interlocking mats.

I splashed out on a brand new dyson cordless with a searchlight, it makes cleaning fun and surprised me by showing me how much fluff and dust gets left on the floor, just by changing the sheets

Recently thinking about ripping up carpets in bedrooms and replacing with wooden floors. The only thing stopping me is how to move heavy beds, furniture etc on my own to clear the area for workmen or would they do this themselves? Anybody know how this works?