To hate carpets?

[penelopepig]

Just a daft one really,

Anybody else that just cannot stand carpets? The first job I did in my new home was get rid!

YABVVVVVU that's like saying you "cannot stand" lightbulbs - talk about first world problems.

Carpet is so much nicer than cold, hard floors.
YABU

My flat is all parquet, and for the most part I like it. However, whenever I stay in a nice hotel room with proper plush carpet I do find myself liking it a lot. It’s nicer to walk on barefoot. But hard floors are just easier to clean, particularly as I have a lot of house parties where drinks tend to throw themselves around.

I like carpets in bedrooms but cannot stand them in bathrooms. My PILs have a carpeted bathroom and upstairs toilet and I can't help but think it must be full of grossness (especially the floor by the toilet, judging by how often my DP misses )

I loved carpet, soft clean carpet, all wood or tiles down stairs.
I have made a few friends from EE they hate carpet too, there houses back home are solid flooring with mats.
Some of their storys filled me with the horrors of carpets.
I always use slippers on them now even if they look clean.

Yuck bathroom carpet is the worst not envious

Must admit now I have lived abroad for so long the thought of carpet makes me feel a bit urgh. House has wooden floors throughout, and we have dogs. Very easy to keep clean!

🙋🏻‍♀️ I also hate carpets.

Dirty nasty things.

I just replaced mine in the living room - my old one was very old and must have been full of germs, but I love, love, love my new one - so soft and luxurious and warm!

I don't have carpet in the bathroom though, or in the kitchen/utility or downstairs loo, but I have it everywhere else, sorry not sorry.

YANBU. They look unglu and get really dirty. Hardwood with a rug than can be regularly removed and cleaned

What do you have on your floors instead, OP? Hard floors are cold & noisy. Do you use a rug even?

I know carpets seem harder to get clean, are nightmare in a damp house, & are terrible in hot places. But they suit Britain pretty darn well.

Agree! When we lived in the UK we had wood floors with underfloor heating. Easy to clean and warm. Wonderful.

@crunchydatola we have tile in bathroom and kitchen and hardwood everywhere else. Never found them cold or uncomfortable and so much easier to clean... particularly for someone like me who is exceptionally prone to spilling drinks

Vinyl lino is a nice alternative for bedrooms, it is coming back in, you can get really think soft lino that looks like wooden floors, soft and easy to clean.

Very unreasonable 😄 I'd love some more carpeting in our rental. Victorian house and all floors are freezing in the winter! When I buy, everything is going to be carpeted bar the kitchen and bathrooms! (Maybe dining room too.)

Do you have underfloor heating, penelope?

I grew up in house that had beautiful hard floors except one room (flea-infested due to carpet there). I still like carpets better in my own home now. The rooms here with hard flooring (Karndean, vinyl) are noisy.

I have chronic problems with cold feet in spite of wearing 3 prs socks & fat slipper boots. I suspect your floors still problematic for me.

My 70yo dad fell over on tiles & broke his upper arm. He's got handsome engineered wood nowadays as main flooring that he's extremely protective of. But with huge rugs on it, probably to protect the precious flooring more than anything.

How do you guys get your rugs cleaned that is better than what cleaning can be done to a carpet?

I felt like you and ripped out the carpet in my house and varnished the wooden floors. 2 years later i put them back in as the house was freezing and echoey, and the noise of my dog running around on the wooden floors drove me mad, especially when she decided to go on a pilgrimage around the house at 3am seeking out our cats.

Maybe if I had a bungalow I'd go back to wooden floors (and get underfloor heating).

I can't help but think it must be full of grossness (especially the floor by the toilet, judging by how often my DP misses

How would you know if he misses?

Don't tell me he pisses on the floor and just leaves it there for some female to clean up

I find even after you give a mat a good Hoover, You can still bring it outside give it a beating a good shake, lots of crap still comes off it, unfortunately you can't take carpet outside.

This is not an IABU - of course YANBU to hate carpets.

If you want to start a conversation about carpets then maybe Chat is the better place?

Funny, our wooden floors feel rather warm probably because the rest of the house is freezing

I find wool carpets cosy, but am rapidly rethinking after an attack of carpet moths has eaten holes all over my sitting room one!
Now debating between hard floors or synthetic carpet...

YANBU, they’re unhygienic and gross.

Yuck bathroom carpet is the worst Carpet in the kitchen runs it a close second.

Horrible stuff.