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?

Waving a banner from the carpet corner here: cold toes are horrid. And anyone over toilet-training age who wees on the floor isn't welcome in our house: totally gross.

I once lived in a flat with carpet in the bathroom. Mushrooms grew out of it. [boak]

Get a bathmat, wash it when you wash your towels. Problem sorted. Another one here who turns a bit sickly green at the thought of bathroom carpet. Eurgh. Mould from condensation, damp carpet from feet and splashes, the whole toilet flushing issue - even without the poor aim issue it's pretty rank. If this isn't your forever home, it is also likely to affect your resale value because of the boak factor from buyers who will factor in thecost of ripping it out immediately. (and from the results above, you can see that's a lot of people.)

get a bathmat or two. You can wash them in the machine and when they are past it, biff them and replace.

I have three males int his house, there is no way on this planet I would have carpet in a bathroom. Underfloor heating all the way!

Obviously peeing on the carpet is rank, but quite apart from that surely just stepping out of the bath/shower onto the same patch of carpet all the time makes it permanently damp and manky? I have to launder my bath mat at least weekly so how do carpets not need the same care?

Vile, vile vile: I have always refused to rent/stay in hotels where there is bathroom in the carpet: disgusting. And besides why would anyone even consider putting down something which you have to shampoo every week? (I have to wash bath mats every week and mop the floor every couple of days, so you would have to do the same with carpet).

And if you think that (even grown) men never "leak" drops of pee outside the toilet you are either seriously deluded or you have carpet in your bathroom so the pee has been soaking the carpet unnoticed for years. Without considering shampoo, toilet/cleaning fluid/bleach, other bathroom products, bits of nails that get stuck in the pile... Lovely.

We've got it - low pile carpet, not my personal choice but it was pretty new when we bought the house so it's going to have to wait to be replaced since we're not made of money and eventually we'll want the whole avocado suite ripped out anyway and may as well do the whole thing in one go.

We don't generally piss all over the floor for some strange reason.

Oh god, when I think of carpet in a bathroom I think of "How clean is your house" when they were taking the carpet out of the downstairs toilet (boak). When they tested it....oh I just cannot think of it. To be fair it was after years of doing no cleaning if I remember rightly.

If you do get carpet in your bathroom, and I can understand why you would want to, get a decent carpet cleaner that will go round the edge of the toilet at the bottom.

I'll add in I also have a freak of a husband who sits down to pee (and read a book for 17 hours when I'm dying for the loo) so no aiming issues.

I'm with the "recoil in horror brigade". The idea of carpet in the bathroom repulses me, sorry.

dear lord no - get lots of bath mats you can put in the washing machine.

Right op. Do you have a bath mat at the mo? Leave it down. For a month. You may vac & clean in same way as you would carpet, but not put in washer.

Then at end of month, give it a good sniff and come back and tell me you still want carpet

YADBU. Try what Pootles said.

I like carpet with mats on top.

Not inviting any of you lot round to my house now! especially the ones who have difficulty using toilets

How's the vote going? Do you need another pro-carpet person?

My mum has always had carpet. It never smelled. My dad and brother could aim straight. I never even realised that there were men who couldn't until I started dating some real slobs.

I have lino but that's because I like it. If we had carpet it would be fragrant because DH can also wee in a straight line too.

Perhaps he and my dad and brother should have gone into business providing toilet-training for lazy, dirty bastards.

A no vote from me.

We too had carpet in the bathroom growing up (and up the side of the bath in a lovely green shade to go with the pink tiles and bathroom suite). There is a certain smell I still associate with bathrooms as a result.

Yabu. Even if people don't get wee or sick on it then it will still get damp and regular splodgings of various lotions and potions.

I have a warm vinyl bathroom floor and use a fresh hand towel every day as a bathmat. I also whack the heating up.

Well even if if you aim right, if the pee-er is very tall splashes are inevitable. So you may want to implement a height restriction in your bog.

Hmm a few votes for carpet, still undecided..

YABU. Get a bath mat.

barf at carpet . Vinyl or tiles with underfloor heating.

and it's not just peeing. our toilets are separate from bathrooms, but I would still never have carpet. I have white bath mats though and they need to be washed weekly - I don't even want to think about what or who who is living in a permanent carpet after a few months.

Oh I forgot, when I moved into my last house there was very pale green marks on the carpet. Except what they were were bleach marks where the previous owners had bleached the toilet and got it on the carpet. Looked really classy that!

Needless to say that carpet went out the day we moved in and new lino went in.