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Carpeted Houses

writter

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Prediabetes
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hello!

I don't understand why most british houses are carpeted! It's so inconvenient, you may have something spilled and you cannot clean it. It gathers so much dust and dirt! Is it for warmth? That's ridiculous, a house doesn't get warm by carpets!

any opinion?

thanks!
 
Wood can be warm. I had my last property with heavy waxed natural wood floor. I never felt it cold.
Some furniture can scratch it so diabetics have to be extra careful. Safer on carpet.
 

Wipe up any spillage straight away, problem gone.

We vacuum clean our carpets at our place every week, then every couple of years we get them steam cleaned.

Voila clean smelling carpets.
 
Just had ours cleaned. With an orange smelling dry clean. Brought up carpets to look like new. Smell lasts for a few days.
Ours gets lots of traffic. Toddler mischief too.
 
Are you a laminate floor salesman/woman?
 
therower said:
Are you a laminate floor salesman/woman?
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no I am a logical human who cannot understand why would you want to live in a carpeted house which means that 90% of the time you will live in dust and dirt and smell and you will have to bother to clean it every week and so on.
 
You don't clean hard floors? I do, and more than once a week.
 
A carpeted floor is great for children to roll about on fall on etc.
Yes carpet does help jkeep the house warm in winters that can get severe.
 
writter said:
no I am a logical human who cannot understand why would you want to live in a carpeted house which means that 90% of the time you will live in dust and dirt and smell and you will have to bother to clean it every week and so on.
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Throughout our house we have ceramic/ stone tiling, hardwood flooring and carpet.
I'm thinking you don't go for carpet so what is your choice of floor covering, if any?
 
I live in a flat and have to have carpets. It's a requirement in the lease. It's to help muffle noise to the flat below. I would have liked to get laminated wood flooring. You can get it with sound insulation now, but the building freeholder wouldn't let me.
 
I tiled the living room floor and put underfloor heating in. I am not going back to carpets. The typical problem I found with carpets was with children. Picking the chips up was easy but getting the ketchup out of the carpet was more of a challenge.
 
Have you got a problem with carpets writter? Been attacked by one?
It's personal choice
Where in the world are you living?
My house is carpeted and wood and does not smell
 
I don't like carpets. Never think they are clean. Having had 2 puppies, I KNOW that our living room carpet isn't as clean as I would like, despite buying and using a carpet shampooer. Oh, and that dratted (and much loved, now deceased) cat. Vomiting half digested mice and birds on the landing carpet where you walked in them on the way to the bathroom at 2am. Happy memories.

Every time I get the opportunity to choose the flooring, I go for tiles or wood.
 
Can't stand carpets either..
Inherited granny pink axminster new lounge one when moved to bungalow last Oct. Wasn't well enough at time to think about changing..
Finally got chap in last week to quote for hall, kitchen, lounge in polyflor... Cheaper than kardean which had before and warmer under foot than tiles that I had wanted. Seen a friend spill her large goldfish tank over kitchen floor which was laminate.. Thats a definite no, no. Not had carpets for previous 20 years with dogs and no intention keeping this horrible flooring for much longer.. Ucchh.
 
Get too clean and you'll wreck your immune system.
Laminate is cardboard with a photographic and polyurethane finish.
Probably more unhealthy than carpet in the scheme of things.
 
I like my carpets - the pile keeps the dust bunnies from rolling around.
Seriously though, I find that non carpeted areas need a double clean - hoovering up the bits then washing.

Robbity
 
4ratbags said:
Im a bit baffled, no matter what type of flooring you have you need to clean it every week, well I thought that was normal anyway.
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I suppose that if you clean tiles you don't have to get a tile shampooer in every now and then because cleaning by conventional means doesn't really do it. Carpets, on the other hand get slowly grubbier and sometimes have things living in them.
 
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