To think UK should have moved on from carpeting by this stage

[Finlesswonder]

It's gross, it's ugly, it's high maintenance, and in a world of global warming, it increasingly feels like a dust and burning sun heat trap.
Why are people in this country still obsessed with carpeting?

No, not at all.

If I lived somewhere with a Mediterranean climate I wouldn't have carperts, but my reality is on the edge of the Pennines where it is chilly and damp most of the year. So we have carpet in the hall and lounge, hard floors elsewhere downstairs, and carpets on the stairs and in the bedrooms.

I don't follow interior design "fashions". I have my house as it is to provide warmth and comfort.

Why the goady post @Finlesswonder?

Energy consumption does not necessarily affect suction. The louder and hungrier doesn't mean better hoovering

Did you not take indoor slippers or socks to your relatives OP, I wouldn't be happy if someone was bare footed in my house, they maybe have athletes food or veruccas, how revolting

To the poster referring to wooden floors in Sweden.

Swedish houses are built to withstand the cold and insulated properly. Not like freezing Britain with its leaky walks. Britains lack of insulation has a carbon footprint bigger than all the cars in the U.K.

This is why we have carpets. Crap insulation and building stock.

"I lived somewhere with carpets once and from a cat hair perspective it was a nightmare!"

You're worried about hygiene but you live with a cat?

Caution should therefore still be exercised when using carpeted floors in homes

I'm not quite sure what this means. What would reckless carpeting look like?

No carpets = noisier & colder. In types of British homes I've lived in, anyway.

One friend has underfloor heating throughout ... and rugs. Her house is reasonably warm but also noisy. Underfloor heating is major renovation, though, hers was new build like that.

I grew up in noisy hard floor almost no heating place (not UK).

Psst...your posts will work better if you don't have a "user675347865whatevs" screen name. They'll look more authentic. Or if the satire is supposed to be obvious, call yourself something like MrsHinch or TheGreatUnwashed...something to make them look self aware. As it is, I think people are ignoring them because they're sort of fence sitting a bit. Change the name 😉

Why? Did your cat produce more hair when you had carpets?

Up the walls, over the cooker, covering windows, in the shower. You know how mad the UK is!

I'm alway user, have been for years, I never use proper names, it's an anonymous site

Up the walls, over the cooker, covering windows, in the shower. You know how mad the UK is!

Ah, thanks for enlightening me. We took up the shower carpet, just a bit too soggy

Another slag off the UK thread? Jolly good, I got 10 minutes

This, I guess. Oh, all the dirty disgustingness! Vile! I have never understood carpets!

I agree with you OP.

I’m a bonafide hard floor fan. However, after renovating our house from top to bottom with hard floors throughout, our feet ached, so we relented and installed carpet on the top floor (bedrooms and hallway). I miss the ease of maintenance and cleaning of the hard floors, but the sound insulation the carpets provide is a real bonus in sleeping quarters.

I like the look of wood, but carpet is warmer in cold weather (so much of the time in the U.K.) and a good deal quieter.

As for people banging on about it not being ‘hygienic’, during many decades of babies, children and grandchildren sitting/playing/crawling on carpet, I have never once known any of them catch anything - even when we also had a dog and/or cat. And in a shoes-on house thrown in.

Yes we are currently in a heatwave, but the UK is mainly cold.
The only rooms I don't like carpet are kitchens and bathrooms due to spillages and young boys who miss the toilet...

I am constantly bare foot and that is much nicer on carpet. It's also lovely to just grab a board game with the kids and all sprawl out on the living room floor on the carpet.

It stops echoes and thumps from noisy feet, protects small heads when they fall over, insulates the house in winter and easy to just run the hoover round.

And in a shoes-on house thrown in.

How are you still with us? You must be some sort of medical miracle. 😱

I hate carpets and dont have any. Filthy.
I love that my floors are regularly mopped. Feels so much cleaner than carpets. Plus i have a cat and there is no way pet hair and carpet are meeting in my home.

The cats are the issue there, not the carpet. No cats no problem.

Op clearly doesn't live in an old house. That is draughty and hard to heat. Where carpet helps to retain the heat.

I suspect some people on here use toilet brushes as well...(ducks down under parapet)

it's another hate the UK post under the guise of carpets this time

I like hard floors downstairs and carpets upstairs.

Carpets are sound deadening and warm but difficult to clean

Hard floors are noisy, cold and easy to clean. Obviously some hard floors are warmer than others.