Hardwood Floors With Carpeted Stairs

Wood is louder than carpet.

Hardwood floors with carpeted stairs.

If you want a cohesive look in your home consider the other types of flooring you have. Once it dries apply two coats of clear coat. Visit the chapters below go to matching floors stair treads. Replace carpet on stairs with hardwood.

We built our house last year and have carpeted stairs with hardwood floors landing. Will it look too odd. Go to our original installing plank on stairs. This makes the long term cost of carpet comparable to certain types of hardwood flooring.

Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting. You ll have to get out the vacuum and give carpeted stairs a good deep cleaning about once a week. Hardwood stairs are easy to clean and maintain with a broom and a mop. Actually we have a carpeted tile top floor bedrooms laundry and hardwood middle floor.

Use a foam brush to apply the stain and wipe with a lint free cloth. We have a very open floor plan and planning to replace flooring with engineered wood. Cleaning and maintenance of hardwood flooring and carpet. Carpeting on stairs is automatically going to accumulate more dust and dirt than hardwood.

Cost is a concern so thinking of getting all downstairs and upstairs excluding rooms wood but leave stairs as carpet for now. Stain and clear coat your stairs to give them long lasting appeal. Cost to refinish hardwood stairs. We could have done hardwood stairs but at the time our dd was not quite 2 so we knew we had years years of at least one little one going up down and felt carpet.

It costs 40 to 75 to refinish a step. For homes with carpeting carpet stairs will flow better. Carpeted stairs will obviously accumulate more dust and dirt than hardwood. Follow the instructions on dry time.

You could save money by refinishing your stairs and floors all at once instead of paying for them separately. 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. For 10 to 12 steps this costs 400 to 900. For homes with wood floors a carpeted staircase can feel outdated and out of place.

You can sand hardwood floors with a machine but stairs are smaller and require more time and attention. This web page originated in 2004 as a how to install plank flooring on stairs. Cleaning wood vs cleaning carpet. Carpet also won t last as long as hardwood and will need to be replaced frequently.