Carpet Over Hardwood Floors Brenda

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Carpet over hardwood floors brenda. The addition of wall to wall carpet over the tile floor warmed up the space and made it our favorite spot to hang out. Carpet is much softer to stand on so if you are on your feet a lot carpet offers a distinct advantage over hardwood flooring. We are finally ripping out the carpet in the living room of our 15 year old home and replacing it with hardwood floors. This method does not involve using nearly as much water as shampooing nor steam.

We bought an antique house from 1781 and have undertaken a remodel. Dh is very concerned about the damage to the floor i am concerned too but wondering if the benefits outweigh the damage. What do you think of having carpet installed over perfectly fine hardwood floors in a family room. We took up the carpet at our airbnb and found nice wood floors underneath.

Carpet has more interior design options and styles while hardwood arguably trumps carpet when it comes to classical sophistication it is carpet that let s you express your own individual character. Place the knee kicker so it faces the wall. Hardwood is a link to both the past and future. Carpet generally lasts 7 10 years whereas solid hardwood typically lasts 100 years and yes we have refinished many floors from the 1800s and several from the 1700s.

It is the safest non toxic for the doggies non damaging way to clean carpet over hardwood. We rip out the old ugly looking carpet in our recently purchased home to expose the nice wood floors hiding below. Many houses that were built in the 50s and earlier had hardwood floors. Here s a short video to show how to remove carpet strips from hardwood floors.

Wall to wall carpeting was very expensive and not very high quality. Kick the kneepad of the knee kicker with your knee as you lift and place the. Hardwood lasts much longer than carpet.