Indoor Carpet Treads
Indoor
carpet treads are the most popular treads and will probably continue to
be popular, well into the future. Now, for the ultimate question, why
are they so popular?
Most indoor carpet treads are cheaper and easier to
install, than wood and other type of flooring. Carpeting also provides
stairway users with a little more traction than wood or other smooth
surfaced stair steps.
Indoor Stairway Carpeting Tips
1. Keep your carpet stair treads as clean as possible. This area is
heavily used and the carpet can easily become matted down the center, if
the stairway isn't vacuumed regularly. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have
your hallways and staircase professionally cleaned, once a year, if you
have more than four people living in your house, year-round.
2. Does carpeting create a safer stairway than wood? If the wood is
smooth and the carpeting provides you with plenty of traction, the
answer to your question would be yes. However, there are things you can
do to wood, to provide your family with a little more safety.
3. Why doesn't everyone install carpeting in their stairway? The answer
this question relates strictly to design. Depending upon what type of
look the architect or designer is trying to accomplish, will determine
the materials that they will use for their stair treads.
4. Worn indoor carpet treads can become a problem and will need to be
replaced as soon as possible, the moment they become smooth or matted.
Most of the time, you can replace the stairway carpeting, without
replacing any other flooring, throughout the rest of the building.
There is a big difference between a professional and someone with
experience. An experienced home designer understands safety and some of
the problems that homeowners could face with smooth stair treads. If
this is a concern of theirs and it doesn't get in the way of their
artistic design, they will use nonskid flooring materials.
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