When my parents bought their current home, it had carpet in the bathrooms. Disgusting. Gross. I would never want carpet in a bathroom. Ever. It was so nasty
@capguncowboy Nor in the kitchen… anyone who has mopped a kitchen floor would understand that. The fools that design this stuff clearly don't have to clean anything themselves…Next, I am sure, it will be white carpet in the garage.
@capguncowboy I feel sorry for anyone that doesn't have shag carpet in their garage. It's so comfortable. I don't need shoes in my Cadillac (shag carpeting) or my garage. If I have to wear shoes I wear my shag carpet shoes.
@Kidsandliz my wife and I almost bought a house that had carpet in the kitchen. It was high pile shag too. There was hardwood under it. I can't imagine why anyone would put carpet over hardwood, especially in the kitchen @irtravis shag slippers will be the new craze
We have wall-to-wall carpet remnants in most of our rooms, except the kitchen and bathroom. The dogs keep slipping and sliding on the wood floors otherwise. Cheaper to buy carpets than to pay a vet to fix a broken leg or two.
@bluedog Yeah, Simba likes to come running into the house with wet feet and deliberately slide all the way through the shotgun house on the already slick laminate floors. He has never managed to miss the doorways but he's fetched up against the french doors in the bedroom when he's misjudged his slide and had a couple of scary falls given his age when he overdoes the flourish turn at the end to come to a stop. I'd love to video it but it's completely spontanteous.
Having removed a fair bit of wall to wall, I can say that carpet is one of the most unsanitary disgusting things on the planet. Hard surface with area rugs that can be removed and cleaned is the way to go. With the right finish on concrete or tile they can be dog friendly too.
There's not a good reply for my situation. Our main level only has the two bedrooms carpeted. Our lower level is all carpeted except for the bathroom, this includes a family room and two more bedrooms.
The house I grew up in was ALL carpet, including the kitchen and bathroom. My mom finally relented over the years and I put hard floors in those two rooms. I had the joy of personally tearing out that bathroom carpet... Ewwww!
I can't answer this poll because the living room/dining room are one continuous carpeted expanse in my home, and that is not one of the choices. I am oddly disappointed.
In spite of all manufacturers' BS claims, all vacuums do to carpet is beat the dirt down into the pad. Then when the kids and pets get it wet, it turns into mud. We wore gloves and surgical masks when we pulled up our wall-to-wall, with fans to blow the dust away. All tile and hardwood now, thankfully. The dog is still mad at us, because she liked the floors soft, warm, and disgusting.
@2many2no No, a good vacuum cleaner picks up fuzz and dirt. Not all the dirt, but at least some of it. Some of it is, of course, beaten down into the weave.
The previous tenant in my house ripped up the carpet in two of three bedrooms and put down this awful, cheap-ass laminate. Even in shoes, I feel like I'm going to slip and fall. Inexplicably, they left the urine-soaked carpet in the third bedroom to stink up the rest of the house. I got the honor of pulling that up and now it is just the subfloor until I find a better solution
Hard (laminate) floors in most of the house, carpets in the bedrooms, linoleum in the bathrooms, tile in the kitchen. You can't give the cats too much carpet; there's no telling what speeds they can achieve with adequate traction. They might hit relativistic speeds, open a wormhole and summon Chthulhu.
I had a visiting dog just tear up a section of wall to wall carpet. I can't seem to find matching carpet to blend in (to 6 year old installed carpet). Not looking forward to replacing the whole room (and the hallway, and two more bedrooms) which are all wall to wall together.
As someone who remodels homes for a living you have another option. I understand you don't want carpet that doesn't match existing in undamaged rooms but you could pull the carpet in that one room and go back with a laminate flooring. For a typical 12x12 room you are looking at roughly $200 for laminate and pad for the basic type, plus shoe which is roughly $.60 a linear foot.
@galmaegi I pull a lot of carpet for hardwood/tile installations. I always do the demo first day( pull carpet/pad and tack ) and sweep the pile of mold, dust, crap that is left behind for the owners to see. It is usually a large pile 3 inches high and 12 inches diameter and that doesn't include what was IN the pad and carpet. Then I coat the floor with a primer/sealer, lay down new underlayment and put down the wood. That first day step always makes for a happy homeowner in the end.
@galmaegi Meh should try to carry these eventually. They have a larger version at Meijer which is cheaper than Amazon( they have the mini too ). While the filters are not perm, it IS the first air purifier I've had that moves as much air as a large house fan and without sounding like a train. It is quiet but moves a lot of air. Going into month 2 now with them in our home and my smoking smell is mostly gone, and we breathe easier. I have cleaned the filters by hand twice and got a cup of dust/lint off them already. Filters last 4ish months http://www.amazon.com/Febreze-Mini-Tower-Air-Purifier/dp/B00MA38S2C/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1417473603&sr=8-4&keywords=febreze+air+purifier
@Outofmymind I have a friend that owns a flooring installation business. In the 30-40 houses that I've helped him pull up carpet in, all of them were disgusting with the amount of dust and debri that gets under the carpet and pad. I have a suspicion though that a good vacuum will alleviate this. I've pulled carpet up in my own home to install wood flooring (in both my old and new homes) and there was barely any debri/dust/dirt left behind. I suspect it might be attributed to my Dyson vacuums? I could be mistaken and just happen to have the cleanest sub-floors I've ever seen. Just wanted to share.
@capguncowboy I agree with that. As someone who owns and uses a lot, Dyson>Shark Navigator>Rainbow> everything else. Problem with Dysons and our Dyson is it pulls the threads out of the 2 rooms I do have with carpet. It can be too powerful. I rent so not going to install wood in the bedrooms where I live.
Don't buy online get someone to buy at Meijer for a fraction of the cost of what Amazon has. They just started making these a few months back. Would be a good item for Meh if you could get Febreeze to package a deal.
Lots of carpet in this old house when we bought it, but we are gradually replacing it all with hard surfaces. The grossest part was the master bath. Yup. All ivory colored deep pile carpet, including up the sides of the tub platform and around the edges. Urgh. Replaced all of that with ceramic tile. Most of the downstairs is now bamboo. We owned a flooring store for many years so we have done all of the flooring work ourselves. DH has disgusting stories of replacing carpet in houses occupied by crazy cat ladies, dog hoarders, et al. He actually turned down some jobs because of the massive nastiness. Urgh!
actually, the smallest bedroom has carpet. but nothing else. even the toddler's room. WHERE HE IS RUNNING AROUND AT 11 PM UPSTAIRS!!!
When my parents bought their current home, it had carpet in the bathrooms. Disgusting. Gross. I would never want carpet in a bathroom. Ever. It was so nasty
@capguncowboy Nor in the kitchen… anyone who has mopped a kitchen floor would understand that. The fools that design this stuff clearly don't have to clean anything themselves…Next, I am sure, it will be white carpet in the garage.
@capguncowboy I feel sorry for anyone that doesn't have shag carpet in their garage. It's so comfortable. I don't need shoes in my Cadillac (shag carpeting) or my garage. If I have to wear shoes I wear my shag carpet shoes.
@Kidsandliz my wife and I almost bought a house that had carpet in the kitchen. It was high pile shag too. There was hardwood under it. I can't imagine why anyone would put carpet over hardwood, especially in the kitchen @irtravis shag slippers will be the new craze
Me and my Queen Anne are hardwood all the way.
Er, and by Queen Anne, I mean my house. And by hardwood, I mean fir.
@Avxyvei So glad you qualified that, because, well...
We have wall-to-wall carpet remnants in most of our rooms, except the kitchen and bathroom. The dogs keep slipping and sliding on the wood floors otherwise. Cheaper to buy carpets than to pay a vet to fix a broken leg or two.
@bluedog My dogs have gotten use to sliding on the floors. It's kind of humorous watching them slide as they are trying to chase the cats.
@bluedog Yeah, Simba likes to come running into the house with wet feet and deliberately slide all the way through the shotgun house on the already slick laminate floors. He has never managed to miss the doorways but he's fetched up against the french doors in the bedroom when he's misjudged his slide and had a couple of scary falls given his age when he overdoes the flourish turn at the end to come to a stop. I'd love to video it but it's completely spontanteous.
@bluedog My dogs have figured out how to spin out and use the lack of grip on the laminate wood floor and tile as drift track.
Having removed a fair bit of wall to wall, I can say that carpet is one of the most unsanitary disgusting things on the planet. Hard surface with area rugs that can be removed and cleaned is the way to go. With the right finish on concrete or tile they can be dog friendly too.
@Headly Carpet is really disgusting, especially when there are pets involved.
There's not a good reply for my situation. Our main level only has the two bedrooms carpeted. Our lower level is all carpeted except for the bathroom, this includes a family room and two more bedrooms.
The house I grew up in was ALL carpet, including the kitchen and bathroom. My mom finally relented over the years and I put hard floors in those two rooms. I had the joy of personally tearing out that bathroom carpet... Ewwww!
I can't answer this poll because the living room/dining room are one continuous carpeted expanse in my home, and that is not one of the choices. I am oddly disappointed.
In spite of all manufacturers' BS claims, all vacuums do to carpet is beat the dirt down into the pad. Then when the kids and pets get it wet, it turns into mud.
We wore gloves and surgical masks when we pulled up our wall-to-wall, with fans to blow the dust away. All tile and hardwood now, thankfully.
The dog is still mad at us, because she liked the floors soft, warm, and disgusting.
@2many2no No, a good vacuum cleaner picks up fuzz and dirt. Not all the dirt, but at least some of it. Some of it is, of course, beaten down into the weave.
The previous tenant in my house ripped up the carpet in two of three bedrooms and put down this awful, cheap-ass laminate. Even in shoes, I feel like I'm going to slip and fall. Inexplicably, they left the urine-soaked carpet in the third bedroom to stink up the rest of the house. I got the honor of pulling that up and now it is just the subfloor until I find a better solution
The only room the cats aren't allowed in, the one with a door that stays closed all of the time.
Hard (laminate) floors in most of the house, carpets in the bedrooms, linoleum in the bathrooms, tile in the kitchen. You can't give the cats too much carpet; there's no telling what speeds they can achieve with adequate traction. They might hit relativistic speeds, open a wormhole and summon Chthulhu.
I had a visiting dog just tear up a section of wall to wall carpet. I can't seem to find matching carpet to blend in (to 6 year old installed carpet). Not looking forward to replacing the whole room (and the hallway, and two more bedrooms) which are all wall to wall together.
As someone who remodels homes for a living you have another option. I understand you don't want carpet that doesn't match existing in undamaged rooms but you could pull the carpet in that one room and go back with a laminate flooring. For a typical 12x12 room you are looking at roughly $200 for laminate and pad for the basic type, plus shoe which is roughly $.60 a linear foot.
Opps, in reply to Ongware
I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to carpet.
@galmaegi I pull a lot of carpet for hardwood/tile installations. I always do the demo first day( pull carpet/pad and tack ) and sweep the pile of mold, dust, crap that is left behind for the owners to see. It is usually a large pile 3 inches high and 12 inches diameter and that doesn't include what was IN the pad and carpet. Then I coat the floor with a primer/sealer, lay down new underlayment and put down the wood. That first day step always makes for a happy homeowner in the end.
@Outofmymind That's why I sneeze a lot. I need to go back to Korean style where you take your shoes off!
@galmaegi Meh should try to carry these eventually. They have a larger version at Meijer which is cheaper than Amazon( they have the mini too ). While the filters are not perm, it IS the first air purifier I've had that moves as much air as a large house fan and without sounding like a train. It is quiet but moves a lot of air. Going into month 2 now with them in our home and my smoking smell is mostly gone, and we breathe easier. I have cleaned the filters by hand twice and got a cup of dust/lint off them already. Filters last 4ish months http://www.amazon.com/Febreze-Mini-Tower-Air-Purifier/dp/B00MA38S2C/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1417473603&sr=8-4&keywords=febreze+air+purifier
@Outofmymind I have a friend that owns a flooring installation business. In the 30-40 houses that I've helped him pull up carpet in, all of them were disgusting with the amount of dust and debri that gets under the carpet and pad. I have a suspicion though that a good vacuum will alleviate this. I've pulled carpet up in my own home to install wood flooring (in both my old and new homes) and there was barely any debri/dust/dirt left behind. I suspect it might be attributed to my Dyson vacuums? I could be mistaken and just happen to have the cleanest sub-floors I've ever seen. Just wanted to share.
@capguncowboy I agree with that. As someone who owns and uses a lot, Dyson>Shark Navigator>Rainbow> everything else. Problem with Dysons and our Dyson is it pulls the threads out of the 2 rooms I do have with carpet. It can be too powerful. I rent so not going to install wood in the bedrooms where I live.
@Outofmymind Only 3 left in stock.
Don't buy online get someone to buy at Meijer for a fraction of the cost of what Amazon has. They just started making these a few months back. Would be a good item for Meh if you could get Febreeze to package a deal.
Opps in reply to Galmaegi
@Outofmymind Got it. I will wait for Meh to sell.
Nothing but moist shag carpet around the toilet.
Lots of carpet in this old house when we bought it, but we are gradually replacing it all with hard surfaces. The grossest part was the master bath. Yup. All ivory colored deep pile carpet, including up the sides of the tub platform and around the edges. Urgh. Replaced all of that with ceramic tile. Most of the downstairs is now bamboo. We owned a flooring store for many years so we have done all of the flooring work ourselves. DH has disgusting stories of replacing carpet in houses occupied by crazy cat ladies, dog hoarders, et al. He actually turned down some jobs because of the massive nastiness. Urgh!
@BelyndaG I love purple.
Old house with terrazzo throughout.
Upstairs is carpeted, except the bathroom. I prefer soft carpet under my bare feet, and like the ease of cleanup downstairs. Best of both.
The bedrooms? Not by any chance! I can't allow myself to breathe in all the hair and dust while sleeping.