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?

Unless you have carpets made of cat hair.

😂😂

After having spent 8 years shivering my arse off in a flat with concrete walls and floors and laminate everywhere I have never been happier to escape and move somewhere that I can put carpets down in every single room bar the bathroom and kitchen. Don’t give a fuck who doesn’t like them, I love them. I’ll decorate to my own tastes and leave other people to decorate to theirs.

We have carpet in most rooms. I like it. I can't imagine getting worked up about other people's flooring choices

So all the people in your house are wandering around in their bare gross feet, spilling drinks, sweating into the stuff, and it just....sits inside your carpet?!

Speak for yourself.
We are a shoes off household and wear slippers in the house.
My bare feet are clean and verruca free if.
I don't sweat on the carpet.
We don't have pets.
I have a vacuum cleaner that I bought before the regulations changed and it is excellent at suctioning dust .
And lastly, I have a carpet cleaner that gets used regularly.

Quite frankly, you are being ridiculous, and perhaps you should up your hygiene if you think you are contaminating your floors with your dirty, sweaty body.

Yeah, get your feet sorted if they're gross.
Plus, stop spilling drinks. Get a sippy cup.

I can’t stand carpet, but It’s all down to personal preference and the living situation. We live in a terrace and had carpet upstairs and stone tiles and wood downstairs. Upstairs used to be a sauna when we had carpet and I hated that carpet, that cat pulled it apart, it was always full of hair and hard to Hoover. Replaced it all with wood, including the stairs and it’s so much nicer, I can do a basic hoover of the house in 15 mins so I can easily Hoover it daily, and it feels so much cleaner. There’s no carpet in the house anywhere now apart from one small patch in a cupboard that the cat is still obsessed with. A lot of people got really funny at the idea of us having fully wooden stairs though!

I would not for the life of me ever have carpet in a bathroom after some traumatic “why are my feet wet” experiences in a student house at uni!

Love having carpet and not sure what’s unhygienic about it? We have wood floor mostly downstairs so easy to clean in the kitchen/dining room etc. But as long as you dont wear shoes in the house (we dont weat them anywhere as thats gross), its pretty easy to keep clean.

Carpets suck! Any politician who pledges to ban them gets my vote.

I have carpet everywhere apart from kitchen/diner, bathrooms and conservatory. I am mid terrace. Neighbour in one side also has carpets everywhere - I never hear anything more than the occasional noise from that side. Neighbour the other side has hard floors everywhere and wooden shutters rather than curtains - I hear EVERYTHING, I know if she sneezes, if her phone rings, and when her son and his girlfriend are making out on the sofa! Soft furnishings are great sound insulators.

It is also far easier to change a carpet than a hard floor.

Thing is it’s not always a blazing hot June day is it? During the very long winter we’ve just had I was grateful for my cozy carpets!

I suppose we could go back to putting rushes on floor?

I have hard floors in the hall/kitchen/bathrooms but I absolutely cannot stand hard floors in thr sitting room and bedrooms. It just feels so cold and hard under my feet when I’m trying to be chilled and cosy 😂 I don’t like the feeling and find it uncomfortable when I stay places that have them.

Curtains are somewhat out of fashion at the moment but they'll come back in again 🤷‍♀️

Carpets were a must for me when I had young kids who often fell over, were pushed over, dropped things etc. The cushioning effect reduced injuries I felt compared to laminate and tiled floors. Also I have seen many kids running round houses with hard floors, skid over, then bang their heads.
I feel the same in my elderly parents house, I'm glad they have carpets instead of hard floors.

Or maybe even a mud floor? With a few hens scratching around?😂

Yes, and burn them on the open fire when they get manky.

I can run the hoover over the sitting room carpet in a few minutes. Job done.

Washing the flagstones in the dining hall takes much longer and they take a long time to dry in an old stone cottage. Ditto the quarry tiles in the kitchen.

Polishing the original oak boards in the entrance hall takes even longer and as I have to get down on my knees is a most unpleasant job.

If you don't like carpet that's your choice. Much less bother as far as I'm concerned and much warmer for the feet. We've had months of cold weather and a few days of heat.

I live in the north of England, on top of a hill so it's always windy and my house is old and draughty.... even in the summer. That's why we have carpets.

I also think if you bring the pigs and cows inside for the winter, it's extra warmth.

It’s hilarious how anyone could countenance having an animal living in their house and call carpets filthy.

But global warming doesn't mean the entire world get warmer. The UK will get colder, will it not? I know Scotland will.

Therefore carpet is a reasonable choice?

But no, I also don't know anyone who is obsessed with carpet. But carpets in bedrooms and / or lounge doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

I do admit it's not nice to think about the volumes of the stuff being pulled up and sent to landfill, but that's the same with laminate and other types of flooring and is a bigger issue to do with todays throwaway culture and people constantly redecorating. Hopefully that changes.

I can do a basic hoover of the house in 15 mins

Mine takes a little longer because I think our house is bigger, but I don't understand your logic @OohThatCat . It doesn't take any longer to hoover a carpet than it does a hard floor.

Carpets aren't unhygienic. People are. Houses with dirty carpets are because the people who live there are dirty. We don't wear shoes indoors or eat in carpeted areas. If in bare feet they are clean and not sweaty.

I don't understand the hysterical hate for carpets. Maybe these posters need help with their OCD, or need to improve their lack of hygiene habits.

They're gross, they're moody, they're high maintenance, and in a world of global warming, they increasingly feel like a shit and hairball trap.

Why are people in this country still obsessed with cats?

Probably because it's cheaper to put down a low quality carpet in a new build than put down hard flooring/tiles/laminate.