To think carpets are grim?

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I never gave much thought to carpets until a couple of years ago. We moved from a house with wooden floors to one with carpets and it grosses me out a bit.

I used to mop our floors once a week and the water would be pretty filthy. Now that we have carpets all that grossness is just sitting there in the carpet. Not to mention that I have been potty training DC too, which brings its own new level of grossness. Obviously I vacuum and could get it professionally cleaned, but in between times it'd still be pretty grim.

Also, with wool carpets there's a good chance you'll have some moths making themselves a nice home within, and now, knowing what we know about micro plastics, synthetic doesn't seem like the best plan either.

I'm just baffled, why do they exist? I know they're nice and warm underfoot, but so are slippers. We lived briefly in a country where carpets were nonexistent and now I understand why. Are we the only country that covers our houses in something that's pretty impossible to clean properly?!

YABU = carpets are the best thing ever
YANBU = carpets are grim

I'm in a pre war house in Scotland, it would be freezing with no carpet 🥶
We don't have it in kitchen, hall or any bathrooms though obviously and we don't wear shoes inside.

While I agree carpets are gross (I couldn't imagine the amount of DD's hair I sweep up daily lodged in a carpet 🤢) but the reason your water was always filthy is due to only washing the floors once a week!

I have wood floors throughout my flat & they get swept, hoovered, washed then hoovered again once dry every 2 days with a wipe in between if anything is spilled.

Carpets are warm, and also rooms with no carpet are often noisy. I'm in NZ and most houses here have carpet. I did love the wooden floors we had in our previous house, but when winter comes around there is nothing like carpet underfoot!

I completely agree but people here get very het up about it! Unhygienic, I want to be able to mop. I get concerns about noise/warmth but you can just get a rug that you can fully remove and clean!

We had karndean throughout old house. Laminate upstairs. Perfect for messy teens and us ( I am a klutz)
However when we bought this house it had new carpets. We keep meaning to replace it. It's so warm and cosy though.

We have them upstairs but yes I broadly agree.

We put in carpets to make the house warmer. And it did. It’s much cosier. But moths have wrecked them within six months.

I've always had wooden floors but recently moved into a new house and we chose carpets for the living room and bedrooms. I love it, carpets feel cosier and the rooms look more luxurious which was the look that I'm going for. Wooden floors are more practical with young children but now ours are getting older we wanted a change.

I’m slowly replacing carpets here, the house smells so much better. I have a robo hoover and a spray mop so the kitchen, hall, utility and downstairs loo are mopped daily. Stairs are hoovered twice a week and mopped with the landing weekly. We’re a shoes off house so I do wonder where the hell all the dirt comes from 🤷🏻‍♀️

Can not wait to do the main bathroom 🤢

When the sun shines on a hard floor you can see every speck of dust plus hair, crumbs, fluff. Even if you sweep them everyday it's always there. At least with a carpet it just gets absorbed then vacuumed. Most of my carpets are in rooms where no one ever walks in shoes - bedrooms, TV room that is tucked away and not a through room so the only muck in those carpets is dust and sock fluff. I'd never get a wool carpet though, that's just asking for trouble. The same way I binned all my wool and cashmere clothes and now I just buy man-made as it's the only way to avoid moths.

I love the comfort of a fully carpeted house. Nothing like it.

However, I have tiles, wooden floors with rugs everywhere in this house.

Very practical.

Great to be able to take rugs out for a beating on a hot day and wash every inch of a bedroom floor.

But if I lived alone I think I would embrace the cosiness of deep woolen carpets.

Mind you, the quality of synthetic carpets has gone through the roof and are well worth thinking a out if you love carpets and have children.

They're MUCH less hygienic, but they are warmer and they muffle sound better so I'm a bit torn on this.

I have carpets upstairs and wooden floor downstairs and on the stairs (tiles in kitchen and bathrooms).

I think people who don’t clean their carpets properly are grim.

"The bedroom couldn't be mopped anyway or it would damage the bed"

Eh? You don't mop the bed, just the floor.

" The dust skimming under the bed and gathering"

You can just brush/sweep that away if you don't want to mop or hoover it.

We have some carpets and some oak floors. I'd like to change the living room to oak flooring top but my husband likes the carpet. We do shampoo it a lot though, we got a Rug Doctor shampooer and it's the best one I've ever had.

We have wooden floors downstairs and carpets on stairs and upstairs bedrooms.

We’re a no shoes household even on wooden floors and ask visitors to either remove shoes or provide shoe covers.

I think if we kept on shoes on then I would hate carpets.

I hate it on TV programmes when people get on their beds with shoes on. Who does that?!

"he reason your water was always filthy is due to only washing the floors once a week!"

I mop MUCH less frequently than that and my water is not filthy. I hoover about every 2 or 3 weeks even if I don't mop then.

When we moved here one of the bathrooms was carpeted. That IS weird - and gross!

OP get a robotic Vacuum cleaner and turn it on every time you leave the house.

I agree OP. I hate carpets and I wouldn’t have any in the house if I had it my way. The odd rug would be ok.

I grew up in an old house with carpets, shoes worn indoors, and a moth problem. I want to go from one extreme to another.

Yeah I dread to think what's ingrained in our living room carpet tbh. This has given me the impetus to get it removed! Just not practical or nice with a toddler and animals.

I love carpets

@Purplephonecover we used to have one pre kids and it was great, now it's a bit impractical as there's little steps all over between rooms in our house so it would only be able to do one room at a time unfortunately. I've considered one of those carpet washer vacuum things but unfortunately we just don't have the space to store it anywhere.

We're a shoes off house, but still, when we had wooden floors it was gross after a week and the thought of that accumulating week on week in a carpet is a bit unpleasant.

I do totally understand the points about noise, and it being nice and warm underfoot though!

Combination here. Carpets need professional cleaning every two/three years.

@OhTheRoses we're at the 2 year mark here, but delaying until potty training is totally over (not envy)!