Hardwood flooring lasts longer than carpet.
Click wood flooring over carpet.
The most common type of floors floated over carpet are vinyl and laminate given they are budget friendly and feature a simple interlocking system of installation.
Vinyl planks vinyl planks are designed to resemble hardwood and can be found in a number of wood look textures such as hand scraped wirebrushed and distressed.
Solid hardwood flooring may last 100 years and engineered hardwood flooring can last up to 75 years.
Seattle renter sumit basu covered up his low pile apartment carpet with a snap in laminate floor sharing tips of the process with a how to video documenting the upgrade process bored with the dark bland low pile carpet in my living room i.
Click in engineered wood flooring has many advantages for temporary.
Quality carpet flooring will last 8 15 years with consistent cleaning and care.
Wood laminate flooring directly over the carpet.
Our first choice was the one with the hardwood floors.
Since carpet is usually plush and soft your laminate flooring would not have the support it needs to keep the locking system sturdy.
Installing laminate flooring over carpet is not recommended in most installation situations.
This one gets tricky especially if your floor has carpeting.
I think carpet is so unsanitary especially with a child and cat living with us.
Read more about vinyl flooring.
This flooring option involve boards that snap together and lock across a floor without needing nails or glue to.
For now here are the key advantages of hardwood flooring vs carpet.
Is it even possible.
Here s a link to a success story over fluffy carpet if you d like to try it.
A rug over carpet.
Don t balk at this just yet.
Covering up an ugly rental unit carpet with wood flooring.
How we put hardwood over carpet back in june i did a blog post titled apartment hunters where i did an hgtv style review of each of the apartments we looked at.
I have been browsing area rugs but eventually i feel like they would get funky even with my regular cleaning.
We have all wood flooring in our current house but we are moving soon to a place with with carpet almost everywhere including the dining room.
We didn t know enough about our future to justify the time and expense.