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We have a fair bit of sisal on the ground floor but wouldn’t do bedrooms as it’s “hard”.
It very hard-wearing but it you can’t clean it so don’t use it in the hall!
It’s quite expensive to fit as the underlay [needs to be good] gets glued to the floor and then the sisal is glued to the underlay.
As someone who likes walking around in bare feet as much as possible I think I’m OK with the hardness/sandpaper effect.
Not being able to clean it noted though!
This morning’s plan is to use hardwood in the bedroom and sisal up the stairs and landing. We’ve already got wood down in the hallway and the majority of downstairs.
Depends on a lot of things really – given the walls and ceiling are typically hard surfaces too (unless you’ve been sectioned) but in a bedroom you tend to have one great big soft sound damping item in the room anyway.
Lounge doesn’t sound particularly echoey 🙂
Currently empty bedroom does but I’m sure when the bed is back in and some clothes are thrown over the floor it’ll be fine
How ever 3 grand for a carpet can gtf
Yep!
Wax.
We did bamboo to match the downstairs, turned out alright 🙂
Oiled herd wood in our bedroom
Read this as 'oiled herdwick' and was ready to try not to judge.
We've got cheap but tough carpet in the bedrooms because kids. Downstairs is stained pine floorboards. Not my idea, like that when we bought it. I love the bare boards but would've preferred they weren't stained. Big rug in the living room but it does get quite cold in winter.
A deep shag in the bedroom is a tad retro but having experienced one in a French hotel I'd say it's worth considering.
Did you have to pay extra for that service or was it included?
Painted floorboards, rest of the flat is original 60’s oiled iroku stripwood floor with a couple of decent quality rugs, one bedroom has a rug at the foot of the bed, other has a runner that goes between back to back desks as it’s an office/spare room.
Really don’t understand the obsession with fitted carpets? Just about every other country has realised they are unsanitary and filthy things, why do we have them in pubs!?! at least people have stopped having them in bathrooms and those awful U shaped piss catchers to go round the toilet.
I've got wood throughout, either engineered, laminate, sanded/stained planks and parquet in the living room.
All of them are warm, none of them are noisy (I've even got two kids stomping around every other week). I'm sure if i was dropping some planks onto a badly insulated/isolated concrete slab/floor with no care for the prep, they'd probably be a lot noisier...
Only exceptions are the office, which was originally the kids room, which is carpeted, the bathrooms/sauna (tiled/duckboards) and the service room/workshop which is lino.
Hard floors give nasty acoustics. Carpets deaden sound nicely.
Depends on a lot of things really - given the walls and ceiling are typically hard surfaces too (unless you've been sectioned) but in a bedroom you tend to have one great big soft sound damping item in the room anyway. A carpet isn't going to have a meaning full impact on acoustics when theres a mattress, pillow, duvet etc in the room
Carpetting my bedroom nade a huge difference. Its a big room 5.5mx4.5m and i had a huge bed in it 2.2m x 2m.
Full underlay and carpet altered the accoustics ckearly and obviously.
I doubt for many folk its a big issue but i have prper hi fi speakers on proper stands and the improvement with carpet was immense
A Rug and about 500 piles of my mrs clothing. Wouldn’t recommend.
Laminate. Not sure why people think it's noisy - it's pretty close to silent when you're wearing slippers or barefoot.
Not trying to imply you're wrong (because it probably depends a lot on the construction of the floor/ceiling and the underlay used) but I've lived in three places where the upstairs had laminate and each of them was chuffing noisy when you were in the room below. It was mostly thuds coming through from people walking about or dropping stuff.
So if OP does decide to go with laminate or similar, then I'd suggest checking out accoustic underlays!
I doubt for many folk its a big issue but i have prper hi fi speakers on proper stands and the improvement with carpet was immense
Yes, the sound with my proper speakers is really good with the properly installed parquet that i have in the living room
then I'd suggest checking out accoustic underlays!
Proper preparation...
The answer is underfloor heating and tiles. For decent soundproofing and insulation, you may want to demolish the current house and call in Kevin McCloud for narration/impregnation duties.
I wouldn't want sisal in a bedroom, it can be hard work on bare feet. We had it on the stairs in a previous house, but decided against it in the current one.
sex rug.
oh, er... just a big, regular rug, for regular things like keeping your feet warm. Y'know, like a rug but regular