Carpet Versus Hardwood On Stairs

I m even more of a detractor now that it has caused me to fall three times on the stairs with the most recent incident on monday drawing some blood i m not an especially clumsy person.
Carpet versus hardwood on stairs. Slippery carpet stairs are however not as dangerous as hardwood floors since they provide a soft landing thus the fall will hurt a little less. Beautiful hardwood stairs will be ruined by the addition of carpeting because the tack strips need to be nailed down creating holes in the wood. When it comes to safety. A staircase rug is also soft to the feet.
Carpeted stairs will obviously accumulate more dust and dirt. The alternative is real hardwoods for our main floor and stairs both up and down and throughout the hallway. Hardwood or carpet on stairs. One main floor option is hand scraped laminate with carpet up the stairs to the bedroom where carpet will be the entire upper floor then carpet will also go down the stairs from the main floor to the basement rec room and guest space this will be some kind of floating floor.
Hard surfaces are slippery and can easily lead to a fall. This noise may be a result of children once young kids learn all about the staircase they will use them relentlessly. Hardwood is a good because high traffic throughways would benefit from a durable low maintenance flooring. Carpet is the safer choice.
Installing hardwood floors can cost between 9 and 12 per square foot compared with about 3 to 5 per square foot for carpet so some homeowners opt to install hardwood floors only in some. I was not a fan of carpeting before moving into my current home where the stuff covers two stairwells and the whole second floor. Which is right for me. Where carpeted stairs really excel is in houses that have noisy stairs.
I was barefoot having just taken off my slippers that merit their name. Besides most homeowners with nice wooden stairs wouldn t be considering carpeting in the first place would they. Carpet on the other hand would muffle those high traffic sounds and make for a safer stairway. Cleaning and maintenance of hardwood flooring and carpet.
Safety should always come first an as unbelievable as it may sound a carpet will not prevent you from slipping and falling down the stairs. The adage better safe than sorry definitely applies to stairs.