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?

We clearly need a diagram. Come on, OP.

Ah poop. Apostrophe missing on servants’ quarters.

Hi OP. I would assume that it was a rug of sorts, and not wipe my feet on it. That would be done on the actual doormat.

Your small entrance hallway is over 6ft?
Christ, I’ve lived in houses with rooms smaller than that.

you should have a scrapey outside mat and wipey absorbing inside mat.

This is the most extreme example of a first world problem that I’ve ever come across😳

This is the most extreme example of a first world problem that I’ve ever come across😳

Well off you pop then @Frazzled57 and sort out global warming and world poverty. And if you don’t want to be bothered by “ first world problems “ I suggest you avoid MN in general and AIBU in particular.

HTH

‘A small entrance lobby’ between the door and the (wooden floored) hallway’
These words are key for me and need to be examined.

As I stand on your b and q mat (dirt trapping) I feel I am in a lobby (you call it this) and I can see I am not yet in the hallway. I consider myself not yet fully over your threshold. It is theplace to assist the dirt trapping qualities of the mat by some wiping shoes on said mat before entering the wood floored hallway where all such chance will be gone.

Im pretty interested in whether there is something like a door jamb (or piece of wood along the floor) at the threshold between the lobby and the hallway. if so then definitely it is a defined shoe wiping space (with handy b and q mat underfoot as if made for such a purpose). If not and the floor simply sweeps along through lobby and into hallway I am slightly more sympathetic.

Is that first world enough frazzled ?

I think the key here is what your runner looks like

Is it patterned in anyway? Or is it doormat brown and woven?

Because if it is doormat brown, I can see how that looks suspiciously like a doormat.

This is worrying me actually as I have a friend who has a small price of additional carpet in front of her door, on top of her normal carpet. I was initially confused, but came to the assumption this is acting as a doormat and wiped my feet on it. Now I am thinking is it a dirt trapping runner and I am supposed to have wiped feet elsewhere?

I like your close textual analysis Heron. And no, there is no wooden bar or similar across the floor between the lobby and the hall.
However I do think that when this runner has had its day I will buy something more obviously mat-looking.

And then you will embrace your inner mat foot wiper self ? And invite others in to join you as you wipe feet all along the new ‘munner’ or ‘rat’ ?

For those who asked, the runner is a bit like this one. This is a pic from B&Q’s publicity. They describe runners as being to protect your floor. Not as something you wipe your feet on.

That looks like an extra long door mat😄
What do you say to these people wiping their shoes on it?

'Entrance hallway behaviour' sounds like a euphemism

B&Q? There’s posh.

Extra long doormat! 🤣

That does look like a massive doormat. We've got one mat in the porch, another mat inside the actual front door then a runner that looks like a rug not a door mat, no-one ever gets confused

Electrical, Drina, Lionel - thanks, the verdict is in, it looks like a doormat It’s not actually that one but it’s similar. I will be replacing it, or accepting that people will wipe feet on it.
To answer your questions, I don’t say anything to the people, I carry on smiling and chatting as normal. I know B&Q isn’t posh, I’m not posh myself. Lempicka yes but at least I didn’t say vestibule...

Yep, totally looks like a doormat. I'd get yourself a more rug-like runner, and maybe chop the current one in half, flip it 90 degrees and lay it just inside the front door.

As PPs, no-one uses a mat outside the door. Those are just to avoid slippy steps, not to clean your shoeson.

Well the MN vote may be in but the only vote that matters is your visitors’.
They will carry on voting with their feet !
Good luck op.

Doormats go outside surely? Mine always does. I cant believe how many people say inside. Wipe feet before entering and then take off your shoes at the door is the only proper way.

Am I only person sitting here thinking "how many doors/entrances/hallways can a house have??

In my house you open the door and are pretty much up the stairs.

This thread is pointless without a diagram to show hallways, doors and mats/runners.
It’s like an indoor parking thread

At least your guests wipe their feet on the closest mat... my FIL walks over the 2 doormats, past the mat which has all the shoes sitting on it, into the kitchen, and wipes his feet on the mat the dogs bowls sit on.

I think it's bonkers that anyone would actively wipe their feet on something that's obviously not a doormat. It's long and goes down the hallway; doormats are short, stocky and live directly by the front door.

Although if your runner goes right up to the front door, then I don't blame people for doing so.

I'd buy another runner and a small doormat to prevent people from wiping mud over your runner in future