Do You Want Carpets in Your Home?

It seems like a silly question, doesn’t it?  Of course you want carpets, right? Well, the question is actually more complicated than that. While it seems like everybody wants carpets in their home, there are reasons why you might not. There are more and more trends for hardwood floors in Logan, Utah, and the greater Cache Valley Area. Often, they use rugs throughout the home, which can present another set of cleaning challenges. Before you choose, you should look at the pros and cons of carpets. As carpet cleaners, we have a few points that might help you decide.

The Pros and Cons of Carpets

Pros

1. Comfort

Carpets are cozy, alright? You wouldn’t want to walk barefoot across a hardwood or tile floor for very long, but carpets feel nice and warm. It can also add a little extra insulation, helping you avoid losing heat during the winter, or coolness during summer. It may seem like a little thing, but you can’t underestimate the value of feeling good in your home.

2. Sound Dampening

If you enjoy a little peace and quiet, carpets can help with that. For one thing, carpets don’t make a lot of noise when you walk on them compared to hard floors. Sound is basically vibration against surfaces. Carpets, which have a lot of surfaces in their fibers, will trap sounds and reduce reverberation. This keeps noise levels down from room to room, letting you enjoy the quiet just a bit more.

3. Safety

One of the biggest problems of hard floors is how slippery they get. If you spill a little water, or have wet shoes and feet, you’ll slide around a lot on them. You might fall, which could result in injuries. With carpets, this isn’t a problem. The fibers just absorb the moisture and provide your feet with a lot of grip. You don’t have to worry about slipping and falling, unless the cat gets underfoot (but that’s a different problem entirely).

4. It Looks Better

Carpets come in a lot of styles, letting you set a certain ambiance in your home. On top of that, carpets hide dirt a lot better than hard floors. The carpet fibers capture a lot of the dirt and hold it beneath the surface, but on hard floors it just sits there in the open, where everyone can see it.

Cons

1. Cost

Carpets can be expensive, especially if you want good quality. Hard floors will run around $3-10 per square foot. Your average might run $2-7 per square foot, which is cheaper, but they’ll need replacing more often. High quality, durable carpets will be up to $20 per square foot, but will need replacing less often. Both types of carpets will need replacing a few times over your life, however, which won’t be as much of a problem with hard floors if you take care of them.

2. Hygiene

Carpets will act like a filter, gathering dust, pollen, and pet dander out of the air. While this can keep the air clean up to a point, every time you walk on it, you can kick some of that back up into the air. This can make your allergies worse if you don’t clean your carpets regularly, especially if your allergies can result in rashes on the skin from contact. On the reverse, though, without carpets a lot of dirt and pollen can end up in your HVAC system, which might spread it throughout the house.

3. Stains

While carpets may hide dust really well, one thing they’re bad about is stains. If you spill some liquid on a hard floor, all you have to do is wipe it off. This is why kitchens and dining rooms tend to be hard floors instead of carpets. Carpets, on the other hand, will absorb the liquids. If you don’t clean up spills right away and use the right cleaning solutions for them, they’ll leave unsightly stains that can be hard to remove.

4. Maintenance

With a hard floor, a little vacuuming is usually all you need to keep them clean, since all the dust just sits on top of them. With carpets, it’s a little more difficult. Because the dust can sink into the carpet fibers, a simple vacuuming job won’t get it out. If you want your carpets to stay in good condition, then you’ll need professional level carpet cleaning at least once a year, and we recommend twice if you really want your carpets to last. This can add to the cost of carpets over your lifetime.

Do You Want Carpets or Not?

So, the question isn’t as straightforward or not. The pros and cons of carpets make it worth considering what you really want from your home.

Generally, most people will want to mix it up. Carpets in your bedroom are great for the ambiance and sound dampening, making your bedroom nice and cozy. Hard floors are better for places where you’ll be preparing and eating food, as it will make cleaning easier and avoid stains. Families with young kids crawling around might have different needs for carpets than a family with children at college age. Whether or not you have pets will make a big impact as well. It’s a question of what you intend for each room and what kind of work you want to do with cleaning and maintenance.

Give Us A Call

If you have carpets, you want them to last. The cost of replacing the carpets will add up over time. While it may be costly to get professional carpet cleaning, this is still cheaper than replacing your carpets in the long run. When it comes to cleaning carpets, Easy Breezy Pros can help you out. Give us a call today and see what we can do for you!