@mtb002 i got this “good” stuff from HD and we lost power a couple of days it shrunk and separated from the tongue and groove and the company didnt care and said was our fault! POS laminate!
@tsfisch Resilient flooring (vinyl) isn’t designed for wide temperature variation. For example:
If, prior to installation, Shaw floors are not acclimated to room temperature (between 65°F and 85°F) at job site between 24 and 48 hours, and if, post-installation, Shaw floors are not continuously maintained at such temperature, damage incurred may not be covered by your warranty.
@mtb002 I installed luxury vinyl plank, purchased from lumber liquidators, in a bathroom. I love the wood look and it’s been in there for just under a year. So far I’m very impressed. It’s water proof. It is thin so I just put it right over the existing awful tile with an underlayment in between. It was super easy to install, was inexpensive and everyone who has seen it has had positive comments.
@medz yep! It was the flexible ones cause i live in a house that was built in the1890’s and the floors arnt level anymore.
It sucks cause it split in the kitchen and the dinning room.
@narfcake I will never buy Shaw flooring again. We put in $2000 worth of regular laminate of what I thought was a high grade (material cost only, I installed it-- properly) as part of a $50K kitchen/great room remodel. The stuff looked beautiful originally. Now 3 years later it looks like crap. If you even so much as drip a little water on it (not a lot of water, just what happens with everyday living) it swells up terribly. And even places where no water ever has touched, all the joints look like crap now. This stuff was installed before the custom cabinet people installed our island, and underneath the kick-panels for all our other cabinets, so this will be a major expense to redo at some point.
Of course, Shaw won’t cover it because they say “it can’t get wet”. We had laminate floor prior to this, and toward the end, when we knew we were going to tear it out anyway, I even wet-mopped it. The floor didn’t mind at all.
The only thing I can think of is when the time comes is to cut right up to the edge of the cabinets and use quarter-round moulding strips to conceal the gap.
@narfcake Yup. When I pulled up the old laminate in the kitchen, there was also the original linoleum under it. The linoleum and 1/4" backer board was put down before the cabinets, so I had to cut/saw along the edges of the cabinets to remove the original flooring without moving any cabinets. As you mentioned, we did quarter-round molding to hide the expansion space between the new laminate and the cabinets.
@thismyusername We tried to save a little money by pulling up the carpet and prepping the floor for the guys to install the hardwood, but we had those 2 rooms where everything had to go while they worked. When the floor guys got to those rooms, they wore respirator masks, and I know why. 20 years of dirt from kids and dogs had been pushed down through the carpet and pad by all that “vacuuming.”
Definitely tile. Carpet keeps too much dust and shows wear in high traffic areas. Hard wood isn’t tough enough for chairs or even women in high heels. That’s why you never see wood floors at airports or shopping malls.
@kittykat9180 The points was that if someone does visit with heels, they can put dents in your floor. Who wants a floor that can be dented that easily?
I almost got hard wood and decided on bamboo as I was told that was the hardest of them. But a friend told me to go to the store and see if I could put my fingernail in the wood. I did and was shocked. I never looked at hard wood again and went with tile instead.
I’ve been to friends houses that have wood and see all the scratch marks around their chairs. Nope, that’s not for me.
Seriously though, why do you think airports and shopping malls use tile instead of hard wood? Because it cannot handle a lot of traffic.
@cengland0 because hardwood would cost a fortune to lay in a huge space like that. it’s cost of upkeep and installation, not that it can’t handle high traffic areas. (although i don’t really see the comparison since i doubt an individual’s home sees the kind of traffic a mall or airport does.)
i live in boston, the hardwoods in homes around here have been around longer than my parents have been alive. seal your floors properly & put the little fuzzy pads on furniture legs and you won’t have a problem. of course they aren’t perfect looking, but i think they have character. (there are no clusters of scratches from chairs, and i don’t know anyone who has heels made of nails that comes over to do a tap dance.)
@jerk_nugget Old hardwood is harder than hardwood today.
For commercial areas - if it dents, scratches, or needs to be treated regularly, it “can’t handle it”. The good news is that there are laminates that can hold up and also porcelain tiles that mimic wood. They are not necessarily cheaper either.
/image wood porcelain tiles
i doubt an individual’s home sees the kind of traffic a mall or airport does
Right but having a product that can handle that kind of traffic does allow a home owner to enjoy their flooring for a longer time without maintenance. Even tile has a PEI rating that you should look at before installing it. You might pay more for a higher PEI rating but it will be better for you in the long run.
put the little fuzzy pads on furniture legs
Doesn’t work so good for things like desk chairs with wheels and dining room table chairs. Besides, why would you get a product that requires you to think about having to protect it with fuzzy pads? If it’s a good product for the home, you shouldn’t have to do that with your home furniture.
and i don’t know anyone who has heels made of nails that comes over to do a tap dance
@cengland0 wheels shouldn’t be scratching your floors. you can put the pads on anything that isn’t on casters and they are invisible once they’re on. chairs that people sit in and scoot back and forth in dig into floors. they don’t necessarily damage the floors but i like the protection just in case, and moreover they make furniture way easier to move when you need to clean underneath it or pull in a chair or in my case make the bed. not everyone can afford to be so picky about their furniture either so they’re a cheap way to make just about anything safe for your floors. additionally, if you live in an apartment like i do it basically eliminates the noise that comes from pulling chairs in and out which can be really loud for downstairs neighbors.
@shahnm I swear that was the first random giphy that came up for “soft and slick”… But I’d have to agree that a warm kitty would be great for polishing hard wood.
@narfcake I just found out that safe search was off on duckduckgo (my search engine of choice). I tried to search for an image for innocent. Don’t do that with kids around.
Except for some tile in a few small places, we pulled up all carpeting & put oak flooring on the entire main floor and Pergo wood in the entire basement. It is much better than carpeting.
@2many2no I keep my heat around 58° in winter, my downstairs neighbor prefers it much warmer. Due to a lack of insulation, the floor sure feels heated! I don’t think I’ve ever stepped on carpet that I thought was too cool. Different strokes for different… feet… I guess!
I just came here to say the same thing most everyone else already has. ANYTHING but carpet. I have tile (in the bathrooms), and lots of laminate tongue and groove (that was put in before I bought the house). I ripped out all the disgusting carpet, and replaced it with a decent quality vinyl.
I did end up putting carpet on the stairs, but it made sense to do it. I’m old, and falling hurts a lot less with carpet than wood. I haven’t fallen yet, but better to be prepared. I’ll probably have someone come out and rip out the current carpet, and put down new (because carpet holds all the dirt). It’s been almost ten years; it’s time.
@Shrdlu I’ve thought about doing cork on the stairs here, though that won’t account for the noses, which of course are the main impact points in a fall.
@narfcake Cork is not forgiving in a fall. You don’t see it on dance floors (of the ballerina variety, for example) because it aggravates the injury. It’s great for long term storage of wine, though.
Don’t sell short vinyl. We did a lot of our new home in a premium product that looks just like wood flooring but none of the cleaning hassles! 4 years in, no scratches, no scrapes, no water damage, and it looks as good as new too!! My brother had been at my place 5-6 times, when he asked what kind of wood flooring I used. I laughed & told him it was linoleum, and he didn’t believe me…PS: I also did our bathrooms & kitchen in a finish that looks like marble. Carpet for the bedrooms & living areas though. Wood-No Linoleum
@MrMark As I recall the repeat rate is every 13 feet and the rolls were 12 feet wide, so unless you have an absolutely huge room, I don’t really think you’d ever notice it. We have our entryway, which goes into a hallway all done with this, and you really do not notice. I don’t know if you clicked on the picture I attached to original post, but I really like the look, the texture, the durability and the easy clean-up of this product. This stuff wasn’t the cheapest for sure (As I recall $10-12/sq. ft.) but it wasn’t as bad as the “premium” wood flooring the company offered.
@tohar1 Ah. I’m a fan of vinyl, We have a “premium vinyl” in two of our bathrooms and laundry (a tile oppose to wood look).
What stopped me from putting it in our main living area is because we essentially have one giant ass room, so there would have been repetitions that could in theory be seen at the same time, for some reason that bothers me, probably more than it should. I’m guessing few visitors would actually notice.
Perhaps by the time I need my next house they will develop some way to remove the repetitiveness.
@tohar1 I’ve had vinyl planks in my kitchen for about 7 yrs… I love it! Everyone that comes over thinks it’s wood. But it looks just as good as the day it went in.
I just replaced carpet in living room and crappy laminate in kitchen with a darker scratch and water resistant laminate. Looks great. 85lb dog hasn’t scratched it with her nails yet. With pets and a small child, carpet gets too nasty. The fibers were really broken down from previous owner too; stained easy in high traffic areas. We did buy a large area rug for the living room seating area.
i rent, ergo, carpet is disgusting. my parents have carpet in the bedrooms though which is tolerable because i know where it’s been, though i still prefer hardwoods. good hardwoods won’t need replacing nor will they get destroyed in a lifetime. way, way easier to clean. (i realize people have different standards on what constitutes ‘destroyed.’)
@Moose Wonder what my bird would do to a hardwood floor. He already chews up the baseboards so I had to put wood around the couch in my office to prevent him from going behind it and chewing without me seeing.
You can see that he chewed up the wood planks I put around the couch to prevent him from going back there. I had to put a much taller piece of plywood and he hasn’t penetrated that one yet.
First house was carpet in the living areas, ceramic tile everywhere else. Second was carpet in living areas, hardwood in the kitchen/dining, and ceramic tile in the bathrooms. Now, my condo has carpets in the bedrooms and hardwood in the living areas.
I prefer carpet for living areas. People can comfortably sit on it during movie night or playing board/card games around the coffee table. Furniture stays where it’s supposed to, and there’s less risk of damage when moving the couch/love seat. I’m not clumsy and have no kids or pets, so keeping it clean is easy. I’m also a barefoot person, so it’s just more comfortable.
For kitchen/dining/bathrooms, it’s tile. Super durable, much more water resistant than hardwood, and I think tile can look as good or better.
The most important thing you should know about carpets is that you should clean them often. It is very difficult to do it yourself, but if you know a few life hacks, everything becomes easier.
@Tripod2 My friend has carpet in one of the bathrooms! (They didn’t install it. She’s asked her husband to switch it out for tile but he hasn’t gotten around to it.)
@Kyeh@Tripod2 back when we moved, we looked at a house that had a cocaine fueled master bath straight out of a Miami Vice set. A full wall of mirrors and shag carpeting everywhere, including up the steps to the island tub in the middle of the bathroom. Like a stepped pyramid of brown carpet with a tub in the middle.
Looking into the wood look vinyl thats supposed to be water resistant. I really hope that stuff lives up to the hype/holds up.
@mtb002 i got this “good” stuff from HD and we lost power a couple of days it shrunk and separated from the tongue and groove and the company didnt care and said was our fault! POS laminate!
Vinyl sucks
@ragingredd Why did it shrink just because the power went out? Surely it didn’t get cold enough for it to contract that badly?
@tsfisch Resilient flooring (vinyl) isn’t designed for wide temperature variation. For example:
https://shawfloors.com/flooring/how-to/vinyl/warranties/lvt-lvp-warranties
@mtb002 I installed luxury vinyl plank, purchased from lumber liquidators, in a bathroom. I love the wood look and it’s been in there for just under a year. So far I’m very impressed. It’s water proof. It is thin so I just put it right over the existing awful tile with an underlayment in between. It was super easy to install, was inexpensive and everyone who has seen it has had positive comments.
@ragingredd Did you allow for the 3/8" expansion space around the edges?
@medz yep! It was the flexible ones cause i live in a house that was built in the1890’s and the floors arnt level anymore.
It sucks cause it split in the kitchen and the dinning room.
@narfcake I will never buy Shaw flooring again. We put in $2000 worth of regular laminate of what I thought was a high grade (material cost only, I installed it-- properly) as part of a $50K kitchen/great room remodel. The stuff looked beautiful originally. Now 3 years later it looks like crap. If you even so much as drip a little water on it (not a lot of water, just what happens with everyday living) it swells up terribly. And even places where no water ever has touched, all the joints look like crap now. This stuff was installed before the custom cabinet people installed our island, and underneath the kick-panels for all our other cabinets, so this will be a major expense to redo at some point.
Of course, Shaw won’t cover it because they say “it can’t get wet”. We had laminate floor prior to this, and toward the end, when we knew we were going to tear it out anyway, I even wet-mopped it. The floor didn’t mind at all.
@tsfisch
The only thing I can think of is when the time comes is to cut right up to the edge of the cabinets and use quarter-round moulding strips to conceal the gap.
@narfcake Yup. When I pulled up the old laminate in the kitchen, there was also the original linoleum under it. The linoleum and 1/4" backer board was put down before the cabinets, so I had to cut/saw along the edges of the cabinets to remove the original flooring without moving any cabinets. As you mentioned, we did quarter-round molding to hide the expansion space between the new laminate and the cabinets.
Once you pull up carpet that has been used for years and see what you have been living with, you will switch to hardwood and never look back.
@thismyusername We tried to save a little money by pulling up the carpet and prepping the floor for the guys to install the hardwood, but we had those 2 rooms where everything had to go while they worked. When the floor guys got to those rooms, they wore respirator masks, and I know why. 20 years of dirt from kids and dogs had been pushed down through the carpet and pad by all that “vacuuming.”
@thismyusername
/giphy wrong
Hardwood. All the original flooring they laid down in 1939.
Definitely tile. Carpet keeps too much dust and shows wear in high traffic areas. Hard wood isn’t tough enough for chairs or even women in high heels. That’s why you never see wood floors at airports or shopping malls.
Who wears shoes in the house, especially heels?
I hate tile anywhere but kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room.
@kittykat9180 The points was that if someone does visit with heels, they can put dents in your floor. Who wants a floor that can be dented that easily?
I almost got hard wood and decided on bamboo as I was told that was the hardest of them. But a friend told me to go to the store and see if I could put my fingernail in the wood. I did and was shocked. I never looked at hard wood again and went with tile instead.
I’ve been to friends houses that have wood and see all the scratch marks around their chairs. Nope, that’s not for me.
Seriously though, why do you think airports and shopping malls use tile instead of hard wood? Because it cannot handle a lot of traffic.
@cengland0 because hardwood would cost a fortune to lay in a huge space like that. it’s cost of upkeep and installation, not that it can’t handle high traffic areas. (although i don’t really see the comparison since i doubt an individual’s home sees the kind of traffic a mall or airport does.)
i live in boston, the hardwoods in homes around here have been around longer than my parents have been alive. seal your floors properly & put the little fuzzy pads on furniture legs and you won’t have a problem. of course they aren’t perfect looking, but i think they have character. (there are no clusters of scratches from chairs, and i don’t know anyone who has heels made of nails that comes over to do a tap dance.)
@jerk_nugget Old hardwood is harder than hardwood today.
For commercial areas - if it dents, scratches, or needs to be treated regularly, it “can’t handle it”. The good news is that there are laminates that can hold up and also porcelain tiles that mimic wood. They are not necessarily cheaper either.
/image wood porcelain tiles
@jerk_nugget
Exactly
Right but having a product that can handle that kind of traffic does allow a home owner to enjoy their flooring for a longer time without maintenance. Even tile has a PEI rating that you should look at before installing it. You might pay more for a higher PEI rating but it will be better for you in the long run.
Doesn’t work so good for things like desk chairs with wheels and dining room table chairs. Besides, why would you get a product that requires you to think about having to protect it with fuzzy pads? If it’s a good product for the home, you shouldn’t have to do that with your home furniture.
I was referring to high heels that some women like to wear. When a lot of weight is put in a small area, it dents the wood and that does not happen with tile. Here’s an article on how to get rid of those high heel dents: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/remove-high-heel-dent-hardwood-floor-77321.html
@cengland0 wheels shouldn’t be scratching your floors. you can put the pads on anything that isn’t on casters and they are invisible once they’re on. chairs that people sit in and scoot back and forth in dig into floors. they don’t necessarily damage the floors but i like the protection just in case, and moreover they make furniture way easier to move when you need to clean underneath it or pull in a chair or in my case make the bed. not everyone can afford to be so picky about their furniture either so they’re a cheap way to make just about anything safe for your floors. additionally, if you live in an apartment like i do it basically eliminates the noise that comes from pulling chairs in and out which can be really loud for downstairs neighbors.
I’d say hardwood as it’s easier to keep clean, but reality is I’m not cleaning regardless. Soft n’ gross it is.
@nogoodwithnames Hell yeah.
Which is best for keeping batteries fresh? I might just stick with my tried and true refrigerator.
/giphy kawaii power animation
@shahnm Great idea! Why didn’t you share that before?!
I do enjoy when the carpeting matches the drapery.
@Pavlov Blonde or brunette? Or are you a ginger kinda guy?
@Pavlov
@Pavlov If the drapes are nice, the carpet is optional.
@2many2no Not too picky about your hard wood?
@shahnm Never pick on your hard wood.
Just buff it.
@2many2no Be careful when polishing your wood though - you don’t want to leave unsightly scratch marks.
@shahnm It’s best to polish hard wood with something soft and slick.
@2many2no
/giphy soft and slick
@shahnm I swear that was the first random giphy that came up for “soft and slick”… But I’d have to agree that a warm kitty would be great for polishing hard wood.
@shahnm
/giphy cat mop
@narfcake Ah. The literal interpretation of my gif. I didn’t see that coming.
@shahnm As a vol.mod., there’s an obligation to make sure that things don’t get too NSFW here.
@narfcake Whatever do you mean?
/8ball Is @shahnm innocent?
Ask again later
@narfcake I just found out that safe search was off on duckduckgo (my search engine of choice). I tried to search for an image for innocent. Don’t do that with kids around.
Hardwoods and tile.
I love my wood floors.
When you have many pets and people who do not clean their shoes, it is best to be carpet free.
I detest carpet.
Pulled it up and lived three weeks with concrete.
If the concrete had looked better I would have polished it and left it.
I have one of the best vacuum cleaners but the dirt was there!
No, never go back to carpet!
@Calabama
You’re supposed to clean your shoes? Why not just remove them at the door, like any civilized human would?
@DVDBZN wipe them at the door mat at the very least…
Except for some tile in a few small places, we pulled up all carpeting & put oak flooring on the entire main floor and Pergo wood in the entire basement. It is much better than carpeting.
I’m inclined to say hardwood, but it’s cold and… hard. Carpet is just nicer on the feet.
@brhfl Socks are nicer on feet.
Just wait a while, meh will sell some.
Or even better, there are these.
@2many2no Socks on wood or tile are pretty terrible compared to carpet.
@2many2no Would way rather be barefoot, even if it means skipping a meh purchase or two or three…
@brhfl I like barefoot when it’s 90° but below that, too cold, no matter what the floor is. Maybe if the floor were heated.
@2many2no I keep my heat around 58° in winter, my downstairs neighbor prefers it much warmer. Due to a lack of insulation, the floor sure feels heated! I don’t think I’ve ever stepped on carpet that I thought was too cool. Different strokes for different… feet… I guess!
Why must it be carpet or hardwood?
@droopus RIP Taylor Negron. Unforgettable bit.
@droopus It doesn’t and that’s why there was the last poll option, “Another flooring option I’ll lay down in the comments”
I just came here to say the same thing most everyone else already has. ANYTHING but carpet. I have tile (in the bathrooms), and lots of laminate tongue and groove (that was put in before I bought the house). I ripped out all the disgusting carpet, and replaced it with a decent quality vinyl.
I did end up putting carpet on the stairs, but it made sense to do it. I’m old, and falling hurts a lot less with carpet than wood. I haven’t fallen yet, but better to be prepared. I’ll probably have someone come out and rip out the current carpet, and put down new (because carpet holds all the dirt). It’s been almost ten years; it’s time.
@Shrdlu I’ve thought about doing cork on the stairs here, though that won’t account for the noses, which of course are the main impact points in a fall.
@narfcake Cork is not forgiving in a fall. You don’t see it on dance floors (of the ballerina variety, for example) because it aggravates the injury. It’s great for long term storage of wine, though.
How about if the cork was IN @narfcake’s nose at the time of the header?
@aetris That would be extremely painful.
@narfcake - Sufficiently buffered, your nose could take on the world:
My dirt floor has the feel of both, hardwood during drought and carpet during rain.
@hchavers That’s pretty revolutionary.
@hchavers Sounds intriguing! Any other special features about this “dirt” floor?
@narfcake Clover is soft on the feet…I wonder if you could grow different things to suit your preference…maybe moss…
Hardwood. If you want something fluffy, get a fluffy rug.
@fablefire Home Decorators Collection Ethereal Grey from Home Depot.
Maybe it’s called hardwood to distinguish it from stuff like bamboo, or uhh…pine?
@Al_Coholic Or cork tiles with area rugs.
I finally finished getting rid of the hideous pink shag in the last room that had it… That shit was disgusting.pink eww
@pfarro1
I like stepping out of bed into warm carpet. So carpet in the bedroom…wood floors elsewhere.
Hardwoods with a area rug. That way I get the dirt & dust collection of carpet, but the firmness of hardwood. Something is wrong with me.
Don’t sell short vinyl. We did a lot of our new home in a premium product that looks just like wood flooring but none of the cleaning hassles! 4 years in, no scratches, no scrapes, no water damage, and it looks as good as new too!! My brother had been at my place 5-6 times, when he asked what kind of wood flooring I used. I laughed & told him it was linoleum, and he didn’t believe me…PS: I also did our bathrooms & kitchen in a finish that looks like marble. Carpet for the bedrooms & living areas though.
Wood-No Linoleum
@tohar1 But is there a repetitive pattern noticeable? Or even two planks that are exactly the same somewhere in the house.
@MrMark As I recall the repeat rate is every 13 feet and the rolls were 12 feet wide, so unless you have an absolutely huge room, I don’t really think you’d ever notice it. We have our entryway, which goes into a hallway all done with this, and you really do not notice. I don’t know if you clicked on the picture I attached to original post, but I really like the look, the texture, the durability and the easy clean-up of this product. This stuff wasn’t the cheapest for sure (As I recall $10-12/sq. ft.) but it wasn’t as bad as the “premium” wood flooring the company offered.
@tohar1 Ah. I’m a fan of vinyl, We have a “premium vinyl” in two of our bathrooms and laundry (a tile oppose to wood look).
What stopped me from putting it in our main living area is because we essentially have one giant ass room, so there would have been repetitions that could in theory be seen at the same time, for some reason that bothers me, probably more than it should. I’m guessing few visitors would actually notice.
Perhaps by the time I need my next house they will develop some way to remove the repetitiveness.
I agree with you, Vinyl is a fantastic option.
@tohar1 I’ve had vinyl planks in my kitchen for about 7 yrs… I love it! Everyone that comes over thinks it’s wood. But it looks just as good as the day it went in.
I just replaced carpet in living room and crappy laminate in kitchen with a darker scratch and water resistant laminate. Looks great. 85lb dog hasn’t scratched it with her nails yet. With pets and a small child, carpet gets too nasty. The fibers were really broken down from previous owner too; stained easy in high traffic areas. We did buy a large area rug for the living room seating area.
i rent, ergo, carpet is disgusting. my parents have carpet in the bedrooms though which is tolerable because i know where it’s been, though i still prefer hardwoods. good hardwoods won’t need replacing nor will they get destroyed in a lifetime. way, way easier to clean. (i realize people have different standards on what constitutes ‘destroyed.’)
One of my dogs decides “I hate this fuckin’ carpet” about once a year and has ripped 4-foot tears in two different apartment carpets.
Thankfully I now own a home with hardwood floors.
@Moose Wonder what my bird would do to a hardwood floor. He already chews up the baseboards so I had to put wood around the couch in my office to prevent him from going behind it and chewing without me seeing.
You can see that he chewed up the wood planks I put around the couch to prevent him from going back there. I had to put a much taller piece of plywood and he hasn’t penetrated that one yet.
Pictured here, @cengland0’s weird bird:
@Moose cute. But this is him for real. He is trying to get my coffee.
First house was carpet in the living areas, ceramic tile everywhere else. Second was carpet in living areas, hardwood in the kitchen/dining, and ceramic tile in the bathrooms. Now, my condo has carpets in the bedrooms and hardwood in the living areas.
I prefer carpet for living areas. People can comfortably sit on it during movie night or playing board/card games around the coffee table. Furniture stays where it’s supposed to, and there’s less risk of damage when moving the couch/love seat. I’m not clumsy and have no kids or pets, so keeping it clean is easy. I’m also a barefoot person, so it’s just more comfortable.
For kitchen/dining/bathrooms, it’s tile. Super durable, much more water resistant than hardwood, and I think tile can look as good or better.
We have carpet only in the bedrooms. Everywhere else is stone tile. So fucking cold but with 4 cats, so much easier to remove fur.
The most important thing you should know about carpets is that you should clean them often. It is very difficult to do it yourself, but if you know a few life hacks, everything becomes easier.
Incoming…
Well tell me, Ampalirani, where can I find information on products which would make this tedious and tiresome task more palatable?
Perhaps there is a newsletter to which we can subscribe and find all of life’s mysteries revealed?
The worst was at one time I lived in a place that had carpeting IN THE KITCHEN!!! Who carpets a kitchen? Even under the stove. Eww.
@Tripod2
/image carpet shower
@Tripod2 My friend has carpet in one of the bathrooms! (They didn’t install it. She’s asked her husband to switch it out for tile but he hasn’t gotten around to it.)
@Kyeh That’s wretched too!
@Kyeh @Tripod2 back when we moved, we looked at a house that had a cocaine fueled master bath straight out of a Miami Vice set. A full wall of mirrors and shag carpeting everywhere, including up the steps to the island tub in the middle of the bathroom. Like a stepped pyramid of brown carpet with a tub in the middle.
@djslack @Tripod2
Wow - how could you resist?
(I wish you had a picture!)