Carpet or not?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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….

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

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 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.

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. 🍜🍝 😁

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

Energy depleted somewhat not somehow!!!! We know how 🤣

We are in the same situation. Our bedroom is carpeted and needs changing. I would love a hard floor covering and mats. Our problem is moving all the furniture out of quite a large bedroom. That is two book cases, a chest of drawers, two ottomans and a double bed and two side cabinets. We need to move them somehow (fitted wardrobes) for carpet or hard flooring but don’t know how to deal with the problem. We are in our eighties and our energy has depleted somehow. If I were you I would definitely go for laminate as you can always add larger mats if possible. It is only stair carpet that I want.

Are we talking fixed carpeting or loose? My mum tripped over her rug and broke her pelvis so for that reason I'd never have a carpet/rug on a hard floor, but carpets wall to wall are very much warmer.

We had wooden floors and rugs throughout the whole of our last house. I liked the look of it, but had to admit carpet is much more comfortable and softer in the bedrooms. Could buy a Vax carpet cleaner to go with the new bedroom carpets- they are as easy as an upright vacuum cleaner to use.

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.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

I had laminate in the living room ,hall and porch and vinyl flooring in my old house and carpets everywhere else.

When I moved I knew I never wanted laminate in my living room to cold. I moved to a 2 bed bungalow . Living room and bedrooms all carpeted in the same plain carpet. Tiles on the floor of the shower room with thick mats for getting out of the shower and same Karndean flooring in my kitchen and hall. As my daughter said it all flows.

No Louisa1523. Love carpets but they are old...😁

Hard floors are noisy for neighbours. Sometimes hard flooring is banned in flats because of the noise. My adjoining next door neighbour has nasty laminate everywhere, even on the stairs, and it’s really noisy for me.

Oiled wood floors main ground floor rooms with tiled hall and kitchen. Rugs in lounge and dining room. I think fitted carpets unhygienic, but do have them for comfort in bedrooms. Ground floors all well insulated so floors not cold or noisy at all.