Top Five Reasons Hardwood Flooring is Better than Carpet

Following are the top five reasons to choose hardwood flooring over carpet:

1. Easier to Clean
   Liquid messes wipe right up usually without staining if cleaned up right away. No need to rent or buy and expensive bulky steam cleaner every month for deep cleanings. No need to haul around that bulky vacuum for routine cleaning and no more searching for outlets while getting tangled up in the power cord. A light-weight broom or dust mop is all you need and cleaning goes much quicker.


2. Hard Flooring is Healthier
   Carpets, no matter how often vacuumed and steam cleaned collect dust and dust mites, both of which are major allergy and asthma concerns. Also, despite your best efforts, most liquid spills soak all the way through the backing of the carpet and into the padding below. Even the best steam cleaners can’t get it all. So, whatever you spilled is still there, and often mold and mildew can become concerns.


3. Increase the Value of Your Home
   Many hardwood flooring materials can actually add more value to your home than you spend on the installation. Hardwood and even laminate floors are desirable flooring materials. And with increased environmental awareness, eco-friendly materials such as cork flooring and bamboo flooring can raise your resale value as well. Finally, one of the hottest designer trends are concrete floors, especially when finished to resemble more expensive materials such as slate, granite, marble, etc.


4. Overall Value and Cost Efficiency
   Over the lifetime of a home, carpet would have to be replaced many times too look as good as most hard wood flooring materials. For instance, hardwood floors can be refinished many times over without completely replacing them. Laminate floors usually have better warranties than carpet. Concrete can be refinished, and quality ceramic tiles can last many years.


5. More Decorating Options
   Once carpet is installed you’re stuck with the color. With hardwood flooring options you can pick a neutral color and put throw rugs down to enhance whatever style you want for the room. If your tastes change or the room needs to be re-purposed, it’s much easier and less expensive to change out throw rugs than wall to wall carpet.

So there you have it. If you want healthy, easy to clean, cost efficient flooring go with hardwood flooring. It makes cleaning and decorating easier while increasing the value of your home.