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AIBU to think only bonkers people have carpets in their kitchens?

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BeautifulBlondePineapple · 31/08/2012 10:15

A little lighthearted thread for a Friday.

We moved into a new house a few months ago. The people before us had put in a new kitchen....with a carpet on the floor.

We're planning to extend the house next year so there's no point in doing anything to the kitchen in the meantime, but I have 3 kids including a baby who likes to throw his food around when he gets bored of it. I have to hoover the sodding thing every morning & evening and seem to spend half my life scraping up ground-in shreddies.

Seriously - who the hell puts a carpet in a kitchen????!??

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HazleNutt · 31/08/2012 11:34

I hate carpets anywhere, you can never get them clean. Nothing but bath maths in my house (and floor heating).

EcoLady · 31/08/2012 11:55

We have the previous owners' carpet in our kitchen. It's a dense weave that's water repellant so spills just sit on the surface and are mopped up without soaking in. It vacuums really well and it's warm on the toes.

When the DCs were small we had large plastic mats under the high chair.

Not a problem and certainly not as 'gross' or 'disgusting' as some of you think. Oh, and we cook a LOT!

firawla · 31/08/2012 11:58

I've never seen anyone with carpet in the kitchen how weird! When we moved into our house there was carpet in the bathroom, and have seen that in a few places but never kitchen. Seems unhygenic. We ripped out the bathroom one and put tiles in, cos that seems unhygenic too but kitchen even worse

KitCat26 · 31/08/2012 12:09

My parents have carpet (tiles) in the kitchen.

I don't think it was a choice they would have made if they hadn't been skint and already had the tiles. But my mum is a clean freak so the carpet is fine, and nice and warm to walk on compared to our lino. Its not unhygenic in those circumstances.

We have carpet tiles in our bathroom. Can't wait to be rid. That certainly is unhygenic, nothing quite gets rid of the smell of urine (DD1 potty training)

melliebobs · 31/08/2012 12:14

The house we bought 2.5 yr ago had a newly fitted lovely gorgeous bathroom. Nicely tiled the best huge walk in shower. Aaaaaaand the most bloody hideous CARPET!!!! It would have been cheaper and nice to have bloody lino

floatingquoter · 31/08/2012 12:14

Not a great carpeter me sen. But its up to individual

Nancy66 · 31/08/2012 12:15

My nan had a carpet in her kitchen - i think it's an old person's thing.

NovackNGood · 31/08/2012 12:19

And why do some people have mini carpets on top of the carpet around their toilets?? And how do they wash them. If they are coloured surely they cannot use bleach?

BionicEmu · 31/08/2012 12:20

Our house had carpet in the bathroom when we moved in. Similar to you, we were going to have building work done so I didn't really want to spend money on replacing it. However, after a couple of months I couldn't stand it any more so went and bought a vinyl remnant to put us on until we did it properly.

Is that an option for you? Just get a vinyl remnant from a carpet shop, they're usually pretty cheap. Similarly I had to do something with our dining room floor, and had to replace the carpet with vinyl (cat wee related, vinyl was the only real option), and I managed to get a 4mx5m piece of rather nice vinyl from eBay for just under £100, delivered.

(Note, I'm not actually v fond of vinyl, but it does the job!)

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 31/08/2012 12:20

YANBU. Yuck. Also at mini-carpets in the loo. Practically and aesthetically.

Pendeen · 31/08/2012 12:33

I have specified Flotex for a few social services projects for the multiple benefits of a hygenic yet warm and impact absorbing surface but it's quite expensive.

I have only used it on one domestic project (elderly disabled person's conversion).

Would never specify ordinary carpet in a kitchen.

forehead · 31/08/2012 12:40

Carpets in the toilet is vile. Just imagine, the amount of urine being soaked up by the carpet.

Ilovedaintynuts · 31/08/2012 12:41

I've honestly NEVER seen carpet in a kitchen.

HazleNutt · 31/08/2012 12:46

My first visit to UK was very traumatic. Not only did the house in question have carpet in kitchen AND bathroom, it had no shower, not even a handheld one. Just 2 separate taps on the bath. Had never seen such a thing before.

pettyprudence · 31/08/2012 13:10

my grandparents have carpet in the kitchen. they are bonkers. there is a definite link.

whatsoever · 31/08/2012 13:13

I think carpet in the bathroom is grim but thankfully rare nowadays. I have genuinely never seen a carpeted kitchen, I am gobsmacked such a thing exists!

I am a messy cook, I spill water on the floor taking a pan to the sink to drain it most days and splash washing up water most days too so this would be useless for us, and that's before we have a child chucking food everywhere (which we will in about 6 months time).

CelticOlympian · 31/08/2012 13:16

YANBU. My parents have moved into a house with carpet in the kitchen. Vile floral carpet, just the normal type you would put in a living room if you had no taste. It has got disgusting greasy stains all around the cooker. They can't wait to get rid.

SusanneLinder · 31/08/2012 13:24

I used to have a carpet in my bathroom but it was so tiny-it fitted in the washing machine :o Don't think I've ever had a carpet in the kitchen.

I have laminate and tiles everywhere and rugs. I cannot possibly imagine having a kitchen carpet as I have two mutts that love to wander in and out the house into the garden and the amount of times I clean up muddy paw prints (feels sick)

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BeautifulBlondePineapple · 31/08/2012 13:52

I'm amazed at the number of folks that have or have seen kitchen carpets!

I guess the previous owners must have been neat & tidy, didn't like cooking much and wanted it nice & warm & didn't want to slip.

But I love to cook, have 3 messy kids and have been cursed with the clumsy stick. We had teriyaki salmon & rice for tea last night and DC3 apparently didn't care too much for it. The thought of what is on that carpet makes me want to boak.

DH has vetoed the cheap vinyl idea (I thought it was a good one) as we're saving up all our cash for The Extension, so I guess now might be a good time to take out shares in The Rug Doctor.

Still, at least the carpet isn't floral.

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AlwaysHoldingOnToStars · 31/08/2012 14:24

We moved here to carpet tiles in the kitchen. It's the only time i've ever seen carpet in a kitchen. I hated it, with 5 kids it was getting wrecked pretty quickly. Then the washing machine broke and flooded the kitchen so we had to pull it up and chuck it. We now have the original concrete floor showing, it's freezing cold and ugly but I still prefer it to brown carpet tiles!!

PandaNot · 31/08/2012 14:29

Why are all these people peeing on their bathroom floors?! We have tiles but other than the regular mopping I never have to clean up 'spills'.

CrispyCod · 31/08/2012 14:33

Carpets in kitchens make me itch.

I'd be wondering what sins they were hiding under there tbh.

DorothyGherkins · 31/08/2012 14:40

My parents moved to a house with carpet on the floor in the kitchen. The previous owner was a cat owner, who boiled, yes boiled fish for her cats everyday! That carpet stunk to high heaven, and after several attempts of using different things to clean and deodorise it, it was ripped up and slung. Urgh. What on earth possesses people.

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