Carpet protector from bath spillages

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Hello everyone,

This is a boring one. My young son takes bath filled baths due to the medication he is taking for his skin. However, every time we do these baths, whenever water drips down the side of the bath and onto the floor, it damps the carpet. We are getting new flooring largely because of this issue. But when we get our next carpet, is there anything I can lay on top of the carpet so that it does not make the carpet wet and damp. Our bathroom is literally next to carpet and we have to have carpet as it runs through the stairs.

Are you talking about carpet in the bathroom (always a terrible idea) or carpet outside the bathroom?

It's not clear whether you mean there is carpet in the bathroom which is a continuation of the stairs and hall/landing carpet or you're bathing him somewhere other than the bathroom on carpet. If there are two separate spaces there should be a door plate between the two under where the bathroom door is when closed. Have vinyl in the bathroom and carpet outside. Use a bathmat and put a towel scrunched up lengthways around the base of bath where it meets the floor.

The way your post reads is that you have carpet in the bathroom which no one has. If in the hallway just put a towel along the floor by the door. Does he really have that much water coming over.

This is why carpets don't belong in the bathroom

Sorry! That didn't read well. We have vinyl in our bathroom but carpet outside of the bathroom (which is our hallway).

But you said when water drips down the side the bath it makes the carpet wet

But you said the water drips from the side of the bath onto the carpet?

If that much water runs down the side of the bath that fills the whole floor to dampen the carpet outside of your bathroom, you have bigger issues. Get a taller bath or supervise your son.

Surely a towel or bath mat by the door should do the trick? Or surround the bath with bath mats to catch any drips?

Yes ok the other side of the door it makes the carpet wet.

Well that's not nice. Why such a direct and mean comment.My young son has a disability and yes I do supervise him. If we had money, we would get a taller bath. But we don't, so we are looking at other alternatives.

I didn’t mean it to come across as mean but the fact that your entire bathroom floor is covered in spilled water every time your son requires a bath so much so that it pools out of the door is not just a carpet problem but could also end up a structural and safety risk.

I agree with the other poster that so much water onto the flooring will damage the wood underneath the vinyl. They aren’t designed for this.

If you aren’t worried by that, then I think get vinyl for the hall. You can’t keep carpet wet. People buying your house can easily change vinyl back to carpet if they want. We have all hard flooring because of asthma.

You could try a bath splash guard.

Or have a raised threshold at the bathroom door.

You need to make sure water isn't getting under the bath and saturating the floorboards/joists.

If there’s so much water that the carpet outside the bathroom is wet, then underneath the bath is almost certainly very wet and needs to be sorted before there are real problems. The carpet is potentially the least of the issue

Doesn't the bath have an over flow hole? Or is the floor getting soaked from splashing over the sides? I'd have more towels on the floor to soak up the water, along with a rolled up one again to door- to stop water seeping under the door.

Longer term- install a screen! We have similar and it encloses the bath and keeps it warm. Also prevents splashes.
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Spread a few fluffy towels on floor, or a few bath mats, in several layers to absorb the drips/ splashes.

Halve the water you put in the bath and put lots of towels on the floor and on the sides of the bath. Otherwise you will damage your house