AIBU to think this is odd entrance hallway behaviour.

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I have a large doormat outside my front door, and wood floors inside the house. There’s a small entrance hallway between the door and the main hallway and on the floor of this entrance hallway I have a woven runner from B&Q to trap dirt. Some visitors wipe their feet vigorously on this runner, which to me seems odd as it’s not a doormat but more of a carpet, in my opinion. Do you think this is odd or would you wipe your feet on it?

Coir not ‘cour’ and definitely not ‘clients’ Apols. !!

We have a scrape-y mat outside the door for big chunks of mud and then a washable dirt trapper thing inside the door. Wipe feet on both. Ok so yours is bigger and probably a pain to go in the washing machine but you can't expect guests to think that through when presumably they're greeting people etc etc. YABU

Doormat just inside the door, then coir runner along the hall, here. Then people wipe their feet on the doormat and not on the runner. but I'd rather any missed mud went on the runner than on the rugs in the living room.

It's good that people are wiping their feet.

Wiping outside often doesn't work- outside doormats are often wet or covered in mud anyway,

You need to arrage the doormats to make it more obvious which is a wiping surface.
I have a similar arrangement- a front porch, with a couple of doormats- one for wiping, one for walking on.

My inside doormats are both machine washable too.

It's another doormat. Would you rather they didn't wipe their feet at all?

You need a door mat inside the door.

You just need to communicate your boundaries and expectations more clearly.

Next time you're welcoming someone into your home, watch them closely as they step inside. If they look likely to start wiping their feet on the running, screech "IT'S A RUNNER NOT A DOORMAT!!!!" and hustle them back outside to the designated foot-wiping zone.

Or at least, that's what I'd do.

Sure, OP everyone else is odd, not you at all.

Doormats go inside for a reason. If you haven't got a porch, then, yes, your doormat has to go inside. But if you have a porch, then the doormat is outside the house, in the porch. And no way would I mistake a runner going the length of the hall for a doormat.

Gahhhhhh! No! Not on the runner! Who does that?! ignores pp above No, its a runner not for mucky shoes. I would have a fit if someone did that on mines😭 OP, get a doormat for inside and shuffle the runner further down the hall if possible?

Right I accept the majority view. Outside doormat isn’t actually exposed to the elements so it does work well for cleaning shoes, but clearly I need to find something for the inside that looks like an actual mat. Or leave things as they are and just buy a new runner more often.

Although the last two posters do understand my setup better.

Well no not if it is a decent sized runner. But then I always take my shoes off anyway. Just stop everyone on the doorstep and ask them to take there shoes off l.

I’d move the runner further away from the front door, and put a smaller one inside the door. Hug rugs do matching mats and runners. Then you need only wash the smaller one.

her's my problem.

The outside doormat in this weather will be wet. You cannot wipe feet on it.
I am coming into your house with wet shoes and want to wipe them and not walk all over your nive floors with wet feet.

So where would you like me to wipe my feet?

I bet everyone gets really anxious before they come to yours.
"Oh shit doormat Mavis has invited us for canapés...remind me again which doormat do we use as a doormat? The inny one or the outy one?"

You need to move your runner.

You are door-matting wrong

I have a coir doormat outside the front door to get any major dirt off.
Then I have another one (absorbent) the inside of the front door for wiping/drying

Then I have the runner in the hallway as a sort of carpet equivalent.

Why not get a doormat and put in by the door as you walk in? Outside doormats get full of muck so are a bit pointless, we have one and no one uses it. We also have a bristle one inside the porch though.

YANBU OP! I have a runner down the length of my hallway too and I'd be pissed off (and slightly bemused) if someone started wiping their feet on it!

@bettybattenburg - boom tish!! Very au courant!!

OP YANBU btw! Philistines, the lot of them!

A 2 metre long woven runner looks nothing like a doormat. I'd be asking my guests why they're wiping their feet on my rug

Thanks Orchardgreen I like the look of some of those Hug rugs and runners.

I’m with you OP.

I have a door mat outside the front door, but inside an enclosed porch with a door, so its not actually outside.

Then I have a small vestibule with another doormat for wiping feet.

It’s obvious what these two mats are for. They are the size and shape of doormats and they are made of , you know, doormat material. It’s not confusing.

Then you open another door and come into my hallway, which has a square large coir rug, about 200 x 250. It’s the size and shape of, you know, a rug. It doesn’t look like any doormat I’ve ever seen.

Some guests ignore the first two doormats and wipe their feet on the rug.