Carpeted stairs require regular vacuuming and an occasional cleaning to keep them in top shape.
Carpet or wood stairs.
Cleaning wood vs cleaning carpet.
If you have children seniors or sleepwalkers in your home wood stairs may not be the best choice in terms of safety.
Hardwood stairs are easy to clean and maintain with a broom and a mop.
Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting.
We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.
This is our stairs before.
To avoid damage to the wood stairs they used a cat paw and hammer to gently remove the tack strips.
Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
And then they had to work on removing the staples.
The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.
The transition to the carpeted stairs was easy but important.
Functional builder grade stairs stairs that exist only to move people from point a to point b with zero concern for aesthetics can be improved with carpeting it is difficult to fix unattractive stairs because they do not lend themselves to painting carpet works wonders on stairs like this.
Wood stairs can be slippery and there s not much cushion if a fall were to happen.
Carpeting on stairs is automatically going to accumulate more dust and dirt than hardwood.
Cuz no one wants to step on those.
If you decide that wood stairs are a must have for your home but you re concerned about safety there is a way to compromise.
The result was a clean transition from wood to carpet.
My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look.