Who has carpet and why???

[stoppinattwo]

we just have it in the bedrooms, stairs and landing, but am considering the living room as spillages seem to be reducing.

so who has carpet....pros and cons please.

I have found our rooms are quite noisey without

When we moved into this house the kitchen, had "flotex" on the floor which is basically special carpet for kitchens. I've never seen anything so vile in my life.

our bathrooms are tiled.......were carpeted when we moved in, but my god the smell.......

lol carpet is hardly the work of the devil, if you live in a flat below someone with laminate i'd imagine that's their idea of hell.

carpet is great for keeping noise down too, though i'd use a vax and clean it alot.

when i was little our living room was half carpet and half lino, that was minging.

we were all so happy when we got the whole house carpeted. so much more snuggly.

And the down stairs shower room had pink carpet.

Laminate is the work of a mad man.

we have wood flooring in this house that was here when we moved in its laminate so not our choice a would hav egone for a real wood floor, but it was new and already here (also lighter colour than i would have chosen), and the last house had carpet and no matter how much it was hoovered and kept clear of stains etc it still fetl dirty to me. it was new as well but after a few months it just felt grubby and i was not impressed with how it was wearing and it wasn;t cheap either.

if i was to ahev carpet now downstirs i would go for one of the flat ;pile carpets a bit like the sisal look one (more to do with the square pattern than sisal feel)

we do ahve carpet upstairs in our bedroom, the 2 boys bedrooms and the guest bedrooms, but my dd's bedroom has laminate as the peopel here before us used the room as ahome office.

if anything i would change the laminate for ceramic tiles, especially in the hallway, kitchen and utility.

wood def in the playroom, would mayeb consider carpet in the lounge if you had an aduls only one or children were grown up.

you can get underlay for laminate floors to keep the noise down.

people are just too cheap ass to stump up for it.

but hey ho, i wouldn't have stinking, unhygenic carpets in my home just for the neighbours' benefit.

they're rank.

We once lived in a house that had a kind of posh coir (sp?) type thing on the stairs and landing in a house we were renting. It was really uncomfortable on bare feet, but anyway, one day Ds was sick on it...he spewed a huged amount of milk. You could see the sick, but couldn't get at it to clean it. . But, it seemed to just disapear by it's self over time, as if it was being eaten by the natural matting or something. Wierd.

we do

it is warm and quiet and nice for bare feet and babies
at absorbs sound too - without it our big living/dining/playroom would be huge and chilly and echoey.

wish we had something else in the hall for wet pushchairs, shoes etc though - new house will have wood in the hall and through to the kitchen but not anywhere else.

My neighbours upstairs have had wooden floors laid and allegedly have had every sound absorbing thing known to man put down and it's still fucking noisy. If you drop something on wood floors it sounds very loud below. I am seriously worried I won't be able to ever sell this flat when the time comes for us to move in a few years.

I am going to replace my carpets with wood because I hate them. But I live on the ground floor so I'm allowed

sorry to hear that, spice. but i'd still rip out the carpets in any flat i owned no matter what floor it's on because i really hate carpets and find them unhygenic and gross.

flooring in hall, breakfast room, tiles(when kitchen done) in kitchen, vinel safety florr in bathroom and carpet everywhere else..had flooring in all downstairs rooms in last house and hated it, although easy to clean, was very very cold.. is warm and comfy and sofens the look of a room, we're just replacing playroom carpet and soon the two big bedrooms, may poss get wooden flooring in study as chair rolling around makes current carpet all shiny