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I would always put hard flooring in the whole house (tile, laminate, hardwood, etc) first since I have allergies and we have dogs. Then we put a nice thick carpet-like rug around the bed area so when getting out of bed first thing there isn't a cold floor shock. But we try to minimize any carpet just for allergy purposes.
I love the laminate floor in our bedroom, with 2 dogs it makes cleaning so much easier. I wonder if all those folks who like carpet realise how much dander and dust collect under the bed in just one day? I dust mop mine every other day and by the end of the week I have enough hair to make another dog.
I have carpet presently, but it will be ripped out as part of a remodel of the bedroom and closet. I will probably put in hardwood instead of laminate.
Last house had tile on the bedroom and bathroom floor, but it also had a radiant floor.
hardwood floors plus a big rug under the bed is our preference.
This is what I would have done but after putting in hardwood for the entire first floor and in the loft and hallway of the 2nd floor of my new build, I was out of money! lol! So the 3 bedrooms are carpeted, although maybe someday I can put in hardwood in them too.
I've noticed a numbner of posts talking about buying hardwoods and laminates from Lumber Liquidators. Be wary: they sell a lot of products made in China in order to get the prices low, and those products have some serious issues. Namely formaldehyde in levels WAY above what the US legal limits are, and hardwoods illegally harvested from Russia and the Amazon.
"Lumber Liquidatorsclaims on its website that all of its flooring comes from mills certified as compliant with California’s standards for formaldehyde. Plaintiffs conducted more than 50 tests of Lumber Liquidators’ Chinese-made laminate flooring, using a variety of different testing methods and sample batches. Test results showed average initial formaldehyde exposures over 100 times above the amount allowed to be sold without a warning label under Proposition 65, California’s main toxics law
The Proposition 65 complaint, filed today in state superior court in Oakland, says: “Without exception, the Lumber Liquidators products produced in China that Plaintiffs tested emitted formaldehyde at far higher rates than those manufactured in Europe or North America – on average, Chinese products emitted at 350% the rate of European/North American products.“"
"The lawsuit is the latest in a series of international environmental scandals concerning Lumber Liquidators. Last September, U.S. authorities raided Lumber Liquidators’ headquarters in Toano, Va., and seized company records to investigate possible violations of the Lacey Act, which prohibits the import of illegally harvested hardwood. A month later, the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency charged that Lumber Liquidators sells timber illegally logged from forests in the Russian Far East. Two months ago, Greenpeace linked Lumber Liquidators to illegal logging in the Amazon."
I have pergo in the kitchen and dinning area and although it is holding up great, when my 100 lbs Malamutes walk on it I can hear them anywhere in the house due to the claws on the hard surface. The pergo is over four years old and has NO scratches on it anywhere so I believe it is holding up quite well.
As for carpeting, just make sure it is a cut and not a loop. Dogs claws will hook onto the loops and cut them making them stick up, cut carpet, with no loops holds up a lot better. Carpet I currently have is loop and it has a lot of those little cut pieces sticking up, but come spring, will be replaced with a cut pile carpet.
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