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[quote=Anonymous]Cold or warm floors:  Carpet is warmer to the touch, sitting on, walking on, laying on because it resists transferring the heat from your body..... and as a result it feels warmer.  Hardwood, ceramic , metal etc takes heat from your body quickly and transfers the heat quickly (metal being the worst) to itself and therefore it feels colder - it is literally taking heat from your body.  Since your body is much warmer than your floor - the floor is taking heat from your body and it feels cold.  Clean carpets are a great alternative to hardwood for this reason.  (no, I am not in the carpet business or any trade for that matter.   Hardwood, ceramic and metal also do not absorb sound very well - so that is why is can seem very noisy in those rooms with hard surfaces.   Not only do they not absorb sound but they also reflect the noise but they help to transfer the sound from one room to another - whereas carpets absorb sound (changes the sound to heat) and the room seems much quieter, because you are hearing the sound in the room only once and not several times as it is bounced off of the floor, bounced off of the walls etc.  Carpet wins hands down when there are children around who like to make noise without being yelled at to quiet down.  Hardwood, ceramic flooring adds to the stress of living in a noisy household.   Large area rugs are often found on hardwood floors for both of the above reasons.

Some people think with the new type of flooring (ones with cracks - ie pre-finished flooring) that there won't be a problem with off gassing of floors..... find out what kind of finish is on the floor - you may not smell the off gassing materials - but the gases are there just the same.  Carpet has off gassing as well.   Both are annoying to your health - and perhaps to your nose as well.    Pre-finished hardwood foors have cracks..... water in the liquid form will go between the cracks from a spill - unless you are an very fast runner with a paper towel in your hand at all times,  and are in close proximity to the spill.     Water in vapor from will also find its' way into the cracks of the wood as well..............and from all that we get mold..... that you cannot clean out.  With area rugs you have a chance of cleaning the rug or getting a new one.     One thing more:  with the old way of doing hardwood floors..... with finishing them after you have laid them.... at least the protective covering stops all liquid water and most vapor from entering the cracks.[/quote]

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