Don't know about accepted practice, but it sounds funny to me to have a small patch of carpet going nowhere. And, more importantly, it's your house. Unless you're doing this to sell, you should do what YOU want!

I agree with katkatf. do what you want. you're paying them to do a job. might ask tho if they have experience in putting the lino on steps - and any samples you can view.

and call around to other flooring stores and ask how they'd do it. would they recommend putting the lino on steps.

The only advantages to carpet is it may be less slippery than linoleum for stairs and quieter. We put carpet on our basement stairs and it is the only carpet within view. A friend's parents had a guest fall down their basement stairs and die from that, so I am a little cautious about wanting to cushion the stairs a little and also not have a very smooth surface.

I'd do linoleum at least as far as the landing, since it goes outside. Just two steps? Yep, I'd want that landing not carpeted since it's an entry way. Further steps past that can be carpeted if they go to a carpeted area, but landing and kitchen and everything in between, lino.

It is perfectly normal to do it the way the dealer describes, but it's a tough place for carpet to live without getting grubby.

I agree with the others, and will add that carpeting steps that previously had lino, especially old lino, can result is smaller steps, especially if you carpet the risers as well (and it looks funny if you don't), and that can be more dangerous than possible slippage from badly wiped shoes.

good grief! I'd certainly think someone would slip on the carpeted edge of a step before a lino'd one! sorry to hear someone died from it! yikes!

most lino'd steps (that I've seen) they put a grid bar thingy (I'm sure that IS it's technical name - ha!) on the step edge. I think that is to cover the edges coming together and also works as a 'gripper' for shoes.

maybe they don't use those anymore?

still, carpet would be terribly gross within a very short time and not easily cleaned.

and I think plllg is right - carpet will 'eat up' step space'.

I did carpet some basement steps (that had an exterior door on a landing) over some vinyl. I used that indoor/outdoor low profile stuff because the steps were sort of treacherous. It didn't make the steps significantly smaller, and I don't think they were entirely standard anyway.

Yours are connected to the kitchen. Kitchen flooring is durable. Doing them the same makes sense!

You can also slip on the kitchen floor and break your neck if you hit your head just right on the edge of the counter. (Same thing goes for lots of places in the house, not just stairs.)

Unless you have elderly or Chevy Chase living with you, I say match the floor. If you have little kids, get it covered in lino, then do a rug for a couple of years and hold it down with those stair rods that were used successfully for years before wall to wall carpeting - easy to take out once they've mastered walking.

I find my kitchen floor linoleum is not slippery at all; not the way vinyl is. it also feels wonderful to walk barefoot on and is very easy to clean. I've had it 2 1/2 years now. I definitely would not want carpeting on steps.