New home flooring.. carpet / wood / ceramic

[SAS-1]

Putting in hardwood while you are living in the house isn't that great of an idea. When they sand it before finishing it. It makes a whole lot of fine dust that will get everywhere in your house. and in your heating system. If you want hardwood, get it now and lay down a rug on top of it.

I can vouch for that. My folks had shag carpet (later 1970s construction) and they decided to upgrade the whole house to hardwood last year. It was a MAJOR inconvenience. They have to empty entire rooms of furniture so we had to basically pack everything up like we were moving out and put it in the garage. The first day they started working they had to move the fridge, stove, etc. to the family room. The house was barely habitable for the 2 weeks it took them to complete it. Also, as mentioned with the sawdust, if they have to sand or lay down new plywood then it makes a mess.

[Bordello]

Putting in hardwood while you are living in the house isn't that great of an idea. When they sand it before finishing it. It makes a whole lot of fine dust that will get everywhere in your house. and in your heating system. If you want hardwood, get it now and lay down a rug on top of it.

Prefinished hardwood is an option, you know? There's no sanding involved. When we replaced the entire first floor of our house, there was hardly a mess. We did it one room at a time, moving all the furniture from that room into another room. You do get a bit of dust when you're cutting the wood, but we did it in the backyard so it's not a big issue.