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Is carpet in the bathroom a dealbreaker

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Sarah510 · 08/02/2020 13:04

Looked at rental house today and really like it bu the they have put in carpet in both bathrooms! Downstairs loo and upstairs main bathroom. Worried about not being able to mop and clean around the toilet? Surely it will stink .... or aibu

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hazell42 · 08/02/2020 13:07

Take it up when you move in. Put it back when you leave.
I wouldn't like it. I have sons

logicbook · 08/02/2020 13:08

We looked at a rental flat once with carpet in the bathroom and said we'd rent it but only if they took the carpet out and replaced with wipe clean flooring before we moved in - and they did!

YANBU.

Newkitchen123 · 08/02/2020 13:10

Eee carpet in the bathroom eeee

Lockheart · 08/02/2020 13:10

I grew up in a house with carpets in all the bathrooms and my parents still have them now (my dad is disabled and they're easier for him to walk on - less slippy).

I live in a house with tiled bathroom floors now.

Personally I've noticed fuck all difference.

Oysterbabe · 08/02/2020 13:11

Gross. If they won't change it then it'd be a deal breaker for me.

ActualHornist · 08/02/2020 13:12

Only if I couldn’t remove it. We had carpet in our bathroom in the late 80s/early 90s, it was warm on the feet but when I had a party and my friend Clare puked on it, it wasn’t fun cleaning it up

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 08/02/2020 13:12

I would ask them to change it to vinyl

Moreisnnogedag · 08/02/2020 13:13

Ew! Renting is problematic - it would seriously put me off, its disgustingly unhygienic, also considering how water my husband seems to shed when he gets out the shower I’d be worried about damp.

Could you do as logicbook has done previously and ask for it to be taken up? Depends I suppose on what the rental market is like round yours.

Doje · 08/02/2020 13:13

Certainly not a deal breaker, how dramatic! I grew up in a house with carpet in the bathroom. It's much warmer on your feet first thing in the morning!!

KirstyJC · 08/02/2020 13:13

Just put a washable toilet mat down and wash it regularly. You shouldn't be peeing on the floor anyway....

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Sarah510 · 08/02/2020 13:14

Doubt they will change it. We were told to remove our shoes in the bathrooms as the carpets had just been cleaned so... was very odd. Laminate and tiles everywhere else in the house

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MsChatterbox · 08/02/2020 13:14

If you really like the house I would get a toilet mat that can go in the washing machine.

Yesterdayforgotten · 08/02/2020 13:16

Carpet in the bathroom is awful and unhygienic along with those little rugs that go around the toilet! It reminds of my grandmother's old house years ago. There is absolutely no use for them and i'm surprised anybody still uses them

Yesterdayforgotten · 08/02/2020 13:17

'You shouldn't be peeing on the floor anyway....'

Tell that's to dc and drunken husbands

Yesterdayforgotten · 08/02/2020 13:18

Agree with pp though just take the carpet up, it's not a deal breaker.

Lockheart · 08/02/2020 13:19

@Yesterdayforgotten "absolutely no use for them"

Yeah, fuck all those elderly or disabled people who are unsteady on their feet and don't want to deal with slippery wet surfaces, amirite?

Spudlet · 08/02/2020 13:20

Ewwweew, soggy carpet. It would put me right off, tbh.

lilyheather1 · 08/02/2020 13:21

We have carpet in our bathrooms and it's fine 🙄 if you have no control over the flow of your piss or you somehow manage to spray poo everywhere than I can see why you would desperately need a wipe-clean floor, but otherwise it's really no different in my experience.

KirstyJC · 08/02/2020 13:22

Why do women accept men of any age or state of sobriety peeing on the floor ffs!?! If boys are learning to use the toilet then OK there will be occasional accidents but drunk dh!? That is disgusting. If he's that drunk he can sit down. Either way, a washable mat will be fine. (In real life anyway, obviously on mn it is the work of the devil.) you could put the mat on the carpet next to the toilet brush...

Yesterdayforgotten · 08/02/2020 13:22

Lockheart I would have thought a toilet rug you could trip over or hinder wheelchair access was actually more of a hindrance! My disabled aunt has to have no carpets as oy prevents her gaining a clear path so what you are saying is actually extremely misguided. Am I right?

Lockheart · 08/02/2020 13:24

@Yesterdayforgotten your aunt might need no carpets, but others do. And given a toilet rug goes under the bowl of the toilet, they're very difficult to trip over.

housemdwaswrong · 08/02/2020 13:25

What am I missing? You do your business in the loo and it's self contained. Why do so many people pee on the floor around the loo as that's what's the post is suggesting?

Young boys excepted of course.

woodencoffeetable · 08/02/2020 13:26

Yeah, fuck all those elderly or disabled people who are unsteady on their feet and don't want to deal with slippery wet surfaces, amirite?

how do all the old people in europe cope where carpet in bathrooms is never done?
you can get non-slip tiles or lino for wet rooms. and slippers that make any floor non-slip

Spudlet · 08/02/2020 13:26

It’s not even the pee, it’s when people get out of the bath or shower and drip water into the floor and then you walk in and step on the wet cold bit with your bare feet - arrrrrrrgh. (We had carpet in our bathroom when I was little and I always hated stepping in a wet bit!).

Yesterdayforgotten · 08/02/2020 13:26

@lilyheather1 you would be surprised and not everybody has control eg: a toddler

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