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?

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

Person who has animals in house thinks carpets are unhygienic.

Or not having a cat

It's 'disgusting'?? Is it though? Really?

So easily offended

So your survey of one (your relative) entitles you to make sweeping statements about the entire population. I take it logic is not your strong point.

Why are you so annoyed the people still use/like carpets? Surely it's non off your concern as to what flooring people have!!!

We only have carpet on our stairs and landing and in our master bedroom.
The rest of the house has a mix of LVT and laminate.
I’d prefer laminate in our bedroom but I can’t be bothered to change it and carpet on the stairs seems better than wooden treads, my DC sound like elephants at the best of times.

Wood and tile downstairs, much easier to deal with mud etc.
Carpet upstairs deadens the noise from heavy footed people.
Having lived in flats previously, there is nothing more annoying than upstairs floorboards.
Carpet also stops echoes and is definitely warmer in winter.
Choose your flooring according to your property.

I can’t say I’ve noticed an obsession with carpet, most of my friends have wood or tile downstairs tbh. My parents and in laws have carpet throughout, but it’s clean and good condition. I think they remember the freezing weather more than the heat, plus it’s not cheap to change if there’s nothing actually wrong with it.

Oh....and op....by what 'stage'??

Well everyone l know that dosent have carpet downstairs seems to have massive rugs everywhere. I'm not sure what the difference is really.

Carpet isn’t high maintenance! A quick hoover with a decent vacuum and it’s sorted.
Now flag floors are high maintenance they need hoovering or sweeping and then mopping and occasionally scrubbing by hand because mine are riven. Then they need protector stuff which wears off and needs reapplying every so often. They also always look mucky. There not flat so it’s major issue for the washer and a minor irritation for other furniture and if a small child falls over they are really hurt.

I just had to use all my powers of persuasion to convince my 80yr old df to not carpet his new bathroom. Yes, BATHroom.
I think it’s a generational thing.

Well we won’t ever be friends. And thank goodness for that!

Has anyone ever caught anything from a carpet?!! They are not unhygienic, ffs. Unless you have specific allergies or very bad asthma, they really aren’t a problem. And they are so much warmer and cosier for the 49 weeks of the year it isn’t super-hot.

My office is all hard floors and walls everywhere. It's an acoustic disaster. We're open to the public and I can hear a fussy toddler on the other side of a different floor.

What a stupid OP.

Wood/tile floors is a fashion thing. Carpets will return at some point.

Britain has a carpet industry and it’s one of the few areas of textile manufacturing left in the U.K. A wool carpet repels dirt, so it’s not unhygienic.

And the north of England is cold and carpets and underlay are insulating.

Only carpets we own are on the stairs and in ds’s room. We have oak flooring in most other rooms except the back reception and kitchen which are flagstone.

I LOVE carpets . I even have a carpet in (shock/horror!) my bathroom!

But I moved in here having fled domestic violence without much money and although I COULD afford to replace the carpets now, they're good quality, not worn, and what's the point. It'd be far more detrimental from an environmental point of view to get rid of perfectly decent carpets for no good reason and purchase new flooring, plus I admit, I do like carpets.
I live in the North. It gets cold.
I hate the feel of cold floor on my stockinged feet.
If you ever drop something on hard flooring, it breaks and makes a fucktonne of noise

I just feel cosier with carpets.
Personal taste. But the UK isn't 'obsessed' with carpets at all.

I didn't even realise this was even an issue 🤣. My bedrooms are carpeted, as are my stairs and landing. I've been recently thinking about carpeting the lounge, I was thinking a shade of grey?

I remember in the 80s/90’s carpeted kitchens and bathrooms were a thing.

They’ll come back.

Posters with husbands who don’t do any housework are forever on here describing all the jobs they do and, good grief, the MOPPING! Get a nice carpet, hoover once a week, use your freed-up time to expand your mind.

I like carpet in the bedrooms.

We had to carpet the main room of a relative's house because she was old and if she fell it might not be as bad on carpet as hard floor (brick, in her case).

Because some people like it. End of.

Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean everyone else should.

Can't stand the cold so carpet everywhere other than bathrooms and kitchen nothing worse than a hard floor that scratches off pets feet,gets clumps of dust,hairs,fibres laying in weblike fluff piles,having to wash the floor everytime it even briefly rains from shoe marks and the list goes on and on lol so pros and cons to both

*shouldnt 🙄

I would love to have wooden floors throughout but having a son and daughter with difficult to control epilepsy it's just not practical or safe. They would have a lot more injuries if we had hardwood floors.