To have carpet in the bathroom?

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I know you're all going to recoil in horror at the idea but I'm really fed up of cold floors.

I want to step out of bath onto the warmth and comfort of carpet. Yes I have a ds and yes he often misses but I'll get one of those shaped rug things that goes round the base of the loo.

Dh disagrees and wants to put fecking lino down! But he also said if the majority of you lot agree with me I can have my shag pile!

Please please please can I have carpet or aibu?

Well I have carpets in my bathroms and I don't care what you say.

They where taken up recently to decorate and the underlay had no marks on, not like from the living room (more glasses of wine spilt than I care to admit.)

Have carpet tiles in kitchen, hated them at first but they are so practical. Easy to scrub clean.

No cold feet in our house.

I would have thought under floor heating would be a very expensive option.

Carpet is good - and definitely warmer and nicer to step out onto than tiles or lino. As long as your bathroom isn't massive it's not a big deal to replace it if it needs it.

Another vote for cork tiles here-we had it in my mum's bathroom, lovely and warm.

Have you ever tried to clean winey puke off a carpet? The smell! [hshock]

just what is it with carpets in the bathrooms in this country.
just can't get my head around it.
the places I have been to where there was a carpet in the bathroom stank of piss and mould. yuk.
so wrong on so many levels.
if you want warm feet when stepping out of the showe/bath put a towel on the floor.

YABU. For anyone who did not grow up in the UK, the thought of carpet in the bathroom sends your head in a spin, a la Exorcist. It is revolting really. Think about it - everytime you flush the loo, billions of bacteria go flying in the air. Do you want them to land on a soft, slightly damp carpet which will provide the perfect environment for them to lovingly nest and breed?

It is just one of those things that should never have been, like New Coke.

I couldn't afford amtico so had luxury vinyl and it is lovely and warm to touch, really really easy to wipe over to clean and cushioned.

The house before I had ready varnished cork tiles as that was what I could afford, they where warm and practicle in the bathroom

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Sorry, OP, but we had a carpet in the bathroom when we moved in- I had it up within hours of moving in- urgh! As others have said, the wood round the toliet was also wet when we lifted it. It smelt horrible.

We now have bath mats for the kids to stand on when they get out of the bath. I have to wash them at least once a week, as they get wet and smelly otherwise- and that's not even pee! I refuse to have one of those furry mats round the loo as I can't even see a picture of one without smelling piss in my head, and I swear it just encourages men to "miss"!

It's not just the piss but the vomit stains as well. Plus hair dye stains if you dye your own hair. We used to have a carpet, soon got rid.

nothing wrong with carpet in the bathroom so long as you air the room regularly. Confused as to why people are so against it. Hate hate hate slippery cold horrible hard porcelain tiles in our bathroom. Really cold, really dangerous and ugly. Carpet is so cuddly...but will probably have cork or lino as my dh also says he hates carpet. weirdo

if your bathroom floor has floor boards then I would suggest you use a water proof varnish to paint the boards in - otherwise the piss smell will ingrain in the floor boards as well as the carpet.

Wall mounted lavatories stop the "drip to floor" floor problem. They also ensure your dh stays under 15 stone or they can come away from the wall :o

Carpetright do something which is a mix of the two soft and slightly fluffy so warm on your feet but also water and stain resistant. I tried to find it online but can't you might have to pop into your local store i think its 24.99 per metre

YABU.

Its unsanitary

Eeeewwww.....

No No No

My mum had carpet in the bathroom, the toilet developed a leak that was disguised by said carpet until eventually, the ceiling fell down in the room below. The floorboards were rotten from years of piss and had been finished off by the leaking toilet.

YABU - We're in rented accom at the moment and the same cream carpet is down throughout the WHOLE house including the bathroom & en-suite and I hate it!

There's a permanant fungussy smell next to the bath where the water scooshes over. There is a mouldy black patch where you step out of the shower cubicle that no amount of scrubbing brings up, and we have gone through several bathmats over the years that have just rotted.

There are blue stains where DH's shaving foam has fallen - again scrubbing only makes a large blue spot, and the (black) cats like to sleep in there because of the warm pipes, so it permanatley covered in hair.

If I owned the house, I'd rip the bathroom carpets up immediatley and put down something easier to clean and more hygenic!

I'm afraid I think bathroom carpet is wrong in every possible way. Don't do it.
Get lino or cork and machine washable rugs. Even a wooden floor is quite nice on bare toes.

(when I was a kid my friend's dad used to tell us a story about a colleague of his who had lovely carpet in bathroom, over the years it got soggier and soggier 'til one day he filled the bath, climbed in and whole lot with man riding in it fell through the floor into room below... might be apocryphal but seems totally plausible)

I remember trying to locate the source of the mouldy smell in a carpeted bathroom of a house we rented. Lifting the carpet between the sink & toilet revealed mushrooms/fungus in a layer of damp black stuff like soil; combination of rotting underlay & wood. Bleurgh!

YANBU i hate cold tiles. wtf is with all these people pissing on the floor? piss in the toilet and keep the carpet clean and there's no problem.

Ok I think I lose!

I'm now quite liking the idea of cork.

Dh is very smug!

Noooo, no carpet in the bathroom, for all the reasons above. Apart from the kitchen, the bathroom is the one room where you probably spill the most stuff on the floor - water, wee, shampoo, cleaning products, bubble bath, etc. Bacteria thrive in warm, damp environments, which a carpeted bathroom provides. Hard, dry surfaces don't allow this.

Underfloor heating if money is no object. If it is, decent lino or laminate (but not ceramic tiles) and a selection of opulent bath mats which you can wash and change regularly and let you seriously clean up the stuff that just accumulates on the floor.

Urgh urgh urgh

Carpet would be RANK!

If you want warmth, get a washable mat or underfloor heating. Or both

Oh god not a shaped rug thing, boys piss behind the toilet not in front, men miss too.

Get an extra large bath mat instead.

Dh insists on carpet. It's vile and revolting. Where we are now isn't too bad but it's quite a long pile and I can't even move the Hoover over it! I hate it hate it hate it. We have those ghastly loo shaped things and I loathe them too; just more washing, and it doesn't even occur to dh to wash them.

There are plenty of alternatives to carpet. I am really envious of people who have them, whatever they might be, as long as they're not carpet!

Why on earth are you all tolerating men who can't aim properly when having a piss?

Small boys need to learn but after the age of about 7 or 8 it absolutely shouldnt be an issue. I'm a bit by the tolerance of free pissing.