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Is carpet in the bathroom a dealbreaker

90 replies

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

OP posts:
BarbedBloom · 08/02/2020 14:24

It would be a deal breaker for me when renting. I have seen the state the previous tenants left this flat in. I dread to imagine what the bathroom would have been like if it had had carpet

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 08/02/2020 14:27

I had my own bathroom as a child and teenager with carpet on the floor. It was not dirty. It was lovely and warm and soft. Have people not heard of bath mats? You put them on the floor near the bath/shower and step on them when you have finished washing. I don't get all this dripping with water thing - some people must have very odd bathing and showering habits!

emmathedilemma · 08/02/2020 14:28

It's gross, the first thing i did when i got the keys to my flat was ripped out carpet from the bathrooms, went to the tip and then to the retail park to buy lino!

TheNoiseHurts · 08/02/2020 14:28

My parents put carpet in the bathroom.

What were they thinking?!

TheNoiseHurts · 08/02/2020 14:28

Oh hang on there was no toilet in there.

Maybe that's why.

Still thought yak

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 08/02/2020 14:30

My parents used to have carpet in the bathroom 🤮. Every so often, my DM would pull it up and put it in the washing machine! 🤯. Thankfully, they've since seen sense and have a beautiful tiled floor now.

viccat · 08/02/2020 14:42

I had it in a rental flat too and it wasn't great. If you're planning to live there for a while and like the property otherwise, could you offer to replace it with vinyl? Remnant vinyls are not expensive at all, might be worth it.

DoesItGetAnyBetter · 08/02/2020 14:49

I have two small boys and a husband. Our main bathroom and downstairs loo are hard floor but we have CREAM Shock carpet in our en-suite.

No one pisses on it, everyone puts the lids down before they flush and dries themselves before stepping out the shower on to a bath mat.

The carpet is now 8 years old, is hoovered & steamed regularly. It looks perfectly fine & doesn’t smell.

I would go by your own family habits rather than other people’s Wink

Yesterdayforgotten · 08/02/2020 15:32

'The carpet is now 8 years old, is hoovered & steamed regularly. It looks perfectly fine & doesn’t smell.
I would go by your own family habits rather than other people’s'

From what you can see, who knows what nasties are hiding beneath the pile. The best hygiene in the world does not take away the fact it is unhygienic.

Coyoacan · 08/02/2020 15:50

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?

I live in Mexico and we have slip-proof tiles in the bathroom, not carpets. It's not rocket science. What does have me baffled is how you keep a carpet in the bathroom.

mencken · 08/02/2020 16:15

washable pedestal mats are needed whatever the main floor surface unless you really like lots of mopping. Even if blokes aim well and women don't hover (and there's a slappable offence) the odd splash is inevitable.

a washing machine sorts that out.

however doesn't hurt to ask prospective landlord if a change is possible.

gnushoes · 08/02/2020 16:34

All you lots saying a carpet is unhygienic-what do you think it might actually DO to you? Cooties? Do you lick your flooring? A

Yesterdayforgotten · 08/02/2020 18:54

'All you lots saying a carpet is unhygienic-what do you think it might actually DO to you? Cooties? Do you lick your flooring?'

What a ridiculous comment ^
You will probably be one of those people who thinks hand washing and vaccines are a waste of time too I suspect Hmm

Lazypuppy · 08/02/2020 18:56

We've always had carpet in the bathroom, much warmer for when you get out the shower.

I have carpet everywhere in my house, laminate and and tiles are so cold

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 08/02/2020 19:26

I would love to have carpet in my bathroom now but DH won't hear of it (even though he never uses my bathroom!). I have never yet had an 'accident' in the bathroom of the sickness/diarrhoea/uncontrolled kind and have no kids, so why can't I have my carpet??

DoesItGetAnyBetter · 09/02/2020 07:28

Yesterdayforgotten do you eat your dinner off your bathroom floor?

Your comment about hand washing and anti vaccine is just rude and insulting.

I’m guessing you think anyone who has pets is unhygienic too? They walk round outside and bring germs in etc.

OP going back to what you were saying, the other issue is what type of carpet you have. Ours is polypropylene and can be scrubbed with bleach if need should arise.

Yesterdayforgotten · 10/02/2020 14:59

DoesItGetAnyBetter get a grip, if anybody's comment was rude and insulting it was yours and the one I quoted and there you go again. And no I love animals but I also am allowed not to like carpets in bathrooms without 'licking the floor'and 'cooties?' how old are you?

Yesterdayforgotten · 10/02/2020 15:01

Oh and scrubbing with bleach and you are the one saying everybody who doesnt like carpets on bathrooms wants to eat their dinner off the floor? How mature

FizzyIce · 10/02/2020 15:07

It’s so gross ! There was carpets in the bathrooms of my current house . Was the first thing I ripped out when we started to decorate shudder

Purpleartichoke · 10/02/2020 15:17

It definitely seems gross to me now, but I grew up with carpet in the bathroom and it never seemed anything but perfectly clean. Could be because my parents cleaned obsessively.

Averyyounggrandmaofsix · 11/02/2020 21:37

Carpet in bathroom wasn't fashionable, then it was now it isn't. Never be surprised to see it back.

JustOneMoreStep · 11/02/2020 22:29

It amuses me that some people think that because their insert family member is disabled and their needs require a particular resource or adaption that is what is most appropriate for ALL disabled people. For what it's worth, we have lino in the bathroom with bath mats which are washed weekly and the floor mopped, but our upstairs toilet room is carpeted, simply because my father has MS and the cold of tiles or similar triggers a painful electric shock type pain through his legs. He could wear slippers but being a certain age doesnt always wake with a lot of warning and trying to get slippers on in a hurry presents an unnecessary trip risk. Carpet is much easier and safer. We have a Vax carpet cleaner and a steam cleaner which are used weekly as part of a general clean. All waste products are contained within the toilet, not on the floor and in the event of accidents (or grandchildren) I feel confident that the Vax and steam cleaner will be perfectly sufficient. Windows are also opened daily to 'air' the whole house. They are of a generation where they desire everywhere to be clean but not sterile though.

Iwantacookie · 11/02/2020 22:48

I also see it on walls which I think is very

Shock what instead of wallpaper? That must of cost a fortune

JavaQ · 11/02/2020 23:36

It is 2020....do they have a rubber hose attached to the bath tap as a shower??

Yesterdayforgotten · 12/02/2020 07:41

All those people saying carpet is hygienic because it is steamed etc what do you do to dry it properly and prevent damp and mould? Baths and showers create steam and damp air which I would have thought isnt the best condition for fixed carpets.