Cleaning wood vs cleaning carpet.
Carpet or wood stairs.
The carpet was old and dirty giving the entry a very dark and dated feel.
If you have children seniors or sleepwalkers in your home wood stairs may not be the best choice in terms of safety.
We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following.
Hardwood stairs are easy to clean and maintain with a broom and a mop.
Wood is louder than carpet.
Carpeting on stairs is automatically going to accumulate more dust and dirt than hardwood.
The transition to the carpeted stairs was easy but important.
Carpeted stairs require regular vacuuming and an occasional cleaning to keep them in top shape.
Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and.
Cuz no one wants to step on those.
Jenna shows you how she did it here.
To avoid damage to the wood stairs they used a cat paw and hammer to gently remove the tack strips.
Wood stairs can be slippery and there s not much cushion if a fall were to happen.
Types of stairs that may benefit from carpeting.
And then they had to work on removing the staples.
This is our stairs before.
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.