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To think this is unhygienic?

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TrainsandDiggers · 14/08/2018 17:26

AIBU to think that my PILs decision to lay full carpets in their bathroom and kitchen is unhygienic? I’d also have thought a fire hazard in the kitchen??

I really struggle with hygiene practices in their home generally (e.g. not installing sinks in two of their three toilets, so people have to wash their hands in the kitchen if they bother at all), so not sure if I’m just making this into something it’s not? They say they like it as they like warm feet...?!

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katielouise3 · 14/08/2018 18:52

Oh that's gross! Carpet in the bathroom! YUK!

GreenMeerkat · 14/08/2018 18:54

We moved into a house with carpet in the kitchen and bathroom (new carpets, cheap whole house job for selling). Couldn't afford to replace them when we first moved so got round to it about a year later. Absolutely disgusting!! Could not believe how gross they were when we lifted them. Eughhh!

Meltedicicle · 14/08/2018 18:55

We had carpet in the bathroom growing up. I wouldn’t have said unhygienic but we kids got toothpaste on it which never came off so looked awful!

SeamstressfromTreacleMineRoad · 14/08/2018 18:59

When I renovated my downstairs loo, there was no room for a washbasin - so I had this installed. It's fab, and has been much admired Smile

To think this is unhygienic?
SerenDippitty · 14/08/2018 19:00

We have no sink in our downstairs loo but there is one in the utility room outside, which is never used for washing dishes or anything food related.

mypoosmellsofroses · 14/08/2018 19:08

I have a lovely (not really) tale of bathroom carpets. Many years ago, helping to clean up a student house that 8 boys had just moved out of. Carpet in the (1) bathroom in the house, all around the base of the toilet there were actually mushrooms growing in the carpet.

IIRC we threw a whole bottle of bleach on it and left it for a few hours before donning the marigolds and ripping the whole lot out.

Mind you that was the same house that had a years worth of empty glass milk bottles left in a lean to conservatory (unwashed)

TornFromTheInside · 14/08/2018 19:11

I like seamstresses' arrangement but I can't pee that high and don't want to wash my hands in a loo.
Call me old fashioned ;-)

ErrolTheDragon · 14/08/2018 19:12

We have carpet in the bathroom - the bath is on a stupid plinth which doesn't lend itself to any form of hard flooring we can think of. But we seem to be able to pee straight, and also, the carpet is a man-made fibre which can be cleaned with bleach if necessary.

Carpet in the kitchen, no way.

peachgreen · 14/08/2018 19:13

@TornFromTheInside oh GOD Envy

TornFromTheInside · 14/08/2018 19:16

Honestly the 70's had some whacky funky stuff for bathrooms! None of it good

Goth237 · 14/08/2018 19:16

Oh no, bleugh. I would be very unwilling to use their bathroom >

happymummy12345 · 14/08/2018 19:21

My dad has carpet in his toilet and bathroom. The last house we lived in had carpet in both bathrooms.
Why is it unhygienic? Do people go to the loo on the floor? Same as a kitchen. When I was much younger we lived in a house with carpet in the kitchen as well as toilet and bathroom.
Love the nice warm feeling under foot.

Brambleboo · 14/08/2018 19:24

Pretty much everyone used to have bathroom and kitchen carpets 30 or 40 years ago. Are your in-laws of that generation and just failed to move on from it?

glintandglide · 14/08/2018 19:25

Yuk yuk yuk gak

I always thought this was an older persons thing until my BIL & SIL had brand new carpets fitted in their bathroom! Gak

Jb291 · 14/08/2018 19:34

Ugh. I loathe carpets because they are so unhygienic. They harbour damp and germs and bacteria and smells and dust mites. I much prefer flooring you can clean properly is tiles or hard wood. Rugs that can be machine washed are fine

TornFromTheInside · 14/08/2018 19:35

Why is it unhygienic? Do people go to the loo on the floor?

There is not a loo in the land used by men that doesn't have piss that misses. Not one.

Might be only a splash, but over a few months it would be awful. Perfectly fine with a tiled floor or decent laminate etc, as it can completely sanitised regularly.

Glumglowworm · 14/08/2018 19:38

I grew up with a carpeted bathroom, it’s horrible.

I’d be more bothered about not having sinks in the same room as toilets though

Aridane · 14/08/2018 19:44

It used to be the norm

LeftRightCentre · 14/08/2018 19:45

Minging. No sinks in the bathrooms? Nope, I wouldn't be hanging round them often.

Readyforapummelling · 14/08/2018 19:46

My Aunt has a fluffy toilet seat 🤮🤮🤮🤮. I don't pee in her house. I love her to bits but Christ on a fluffy bike it's VILE.

Pinkvoid · 14/08/2018 19:46

I had a carpet in the bathroom in a house I rented once. It was fucking vile. It’s not just a matter of male piss but also the fact it can and does go mouldy with people getting in and out of the bath/shower. It’s really, really unhygienic.

Never seen a carpeted kitchen.

AnoukSpirit · 14/08/2018 19:50

Um, older houses were built with toilets in a separate room to the bathrooms, so there weren't ever any sinks in with the toilets. It was considered unhygienic to have a toilet in with your bath and sink, rather than in its own room.

So it's not that abnormal, or abhorrent, presuming there are actually sinks elsewhere in the house.

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 14/08/2018 19:54

I had carpet in MY bathroom at my parents' house. I was not dirty, hoovered it and kept the room clean. It was cosy and I loved it.

Lucisky · 14/08/2018 19:58

Oh dear - in the early 80s I carpeted the kitchen in my rental with an offcut (was a v small kichen) and I was very proud of it. My next place, which I bought, I carpeted the bathroom and put it up the side of the bath too. I also had a loo seat cover. But then I also had borders in every room and lacy flowery net cafe curtains at the windows. Tastes change, thank goodness, but none of this was unusual then.
I have a rather nice rug for my kitchen (hard floor) but I only have it down in the winter and it is machine washable, so that's okay, I think!

Italiangreyhound · 14/08/2018 19:59

We grew up with a kitchen and bathroom carpet. we all survived. However, now in my own home I would not dream of either.

No sink in look was common when I was a child but loo was next to bathroom, so normal. Downstairs loo, needs a sink.