carpeted vs. uncarpeted (carpets carpet hardwood SEO carpet thread starters a carpet thread has already been made)

this thread is really about pubic hair, right?

i find carpeted/uncarpeted to be like the seasons. i tire of them both, and always welcome the arrival of the new one. when i go home to the uk and spend a few days on carpet it is a delight! so soft!

laminate is worse than all of these

yes the warm feeling of years of bacteria and dirt on your feet

laminate is good for when you spill beer

i dunno, i don't notice the rates of bacterial infection being significantly higher in carpeted countries/houses.

I did the study actually, haven't published the results yet

Probably good for your immune system, those things are filthy.

when i am rich, and to please hygiene neurotic visitors/germans, i will consider my carpets single use and get them replaced each night while i sleep

my favourite thing about my parquet floor is that i no longer own a vacuum cleaner. i hate those things.

Asthma and the upswing in serious allergies are probably all due to the loss in popularity of wall-to-wall.

I wonder how contributory carpets are to rising asthma rates

lol xp

hardwood yo

confused as to why this poll needs a 'carpeted' option.

Tho a strip running up the stairs is practical for noise i guess

what is "wall to wall" btw

help me understand why carpeting is the default choice in so many american homes

terra cotte is a bitch to clean btw that wld get my vote for worst

the worst is when you go to someone's carpeted house and they have a dog. the whole house smells like doggy carpet

isn't asthma rising pretty much everywhere in the developed world while carpetting is not?

carpeting pros:

- warm
- soft esp cuz most ppl dont wear shoes indoors
- easy to clean [via dyson technology]
- cheaper than hardwood/marble/tile

help me understand why carpeting is the default choice in so many american homes English bathrooms

in the short term (last 10 yrs say) carpetting is definitely down a little in the UK. and basically 0% of german homes are carpetted. asthma is up in both i'm sure.

cons
- carpet

haha xxp

carpet, like fences, makes for better neighbor relations

asthma detection up because of preciousness perhaps?

- soft esp cuz most ppl dont wear shoes indoors

slippers/socks, people

seriously a house with nothing but hardwood is hard on the feet! i had to buy slippers like a savage.

lol xp!!!

I guess it depends on if you view carpets as either contributing to or taking away from asthma rates. cases could be made for both, I'm sure, but the causes of asthma are not well understood

carpeting is the fence equivalent in apartment living

I would like to point out that a comfortable, fur-lined or just lined slipper is more comfortable than any carpet in the winter, and that in the summer you can just get a pair of 'indoor sandals' or flip flops

i propose to turn this allergy epidemic around that there be one super allergenic carpeted room with a cat and dog and shellfish and peanut butter in it in every house

the rest of the house can be whatever fancy wood flooring i mean parquet people want

the feel of cool hardwood on yr feet is p nice in the summer

i think the floor surface in homes has basically no effect on health and a lot of this are cleanliness neuroses (although obv carpet in a bathroom is disgusting).

keeping carpets visibly clean is more work than wood floors. that is the only thing against them imo, but it is a significant thing.

help me understand why carpeting is the default choice in so many american homes

this is totally a guess, but I'm thinking:
starts out as sign of wealth -> gets cheaper via mass production -> increasingly affordable, becomes the norm rather than the exception -> eventually loses its class connotations but still considered 'the norm' for a house

plus parents + dumb american babies

kind of depressing that houses built before a certain point (maybe the 50s? 60s?) all had nice hardwood floors and all modern houses just cover that shit up with carpeting w/ only the grossest mosses of hell underneath

xp!

carpets are basically inside-lawns

in so many ways

Carpet is also crazy cheaper than hardwood, isn't it? And way faster to lay down, you just need a cheap subfloor and some carpet nails and viola.

lawns vs. no-lawns is a poll thread for another day

these days yeah, wouldn't have always been the case

there is not enough hardwood left to use as the floor for every new home!

xp to laurel

I have heard that laying down wall to wall carpeting is hell on the knees xp

who the hell is gonna defend lawns, I mean really

http://www.hardwoodinfo.com/articles/view/135 hmm

there is not enough hardwood left to use as the floor for every new home!

Yeah, this is part of why! Board footage used to be cheap!

i will defend lawns. what is the alternative?

it always breaks my bleeding liberal heart to see how much money municipalities waste on public lawn/grass upkeep. and private lawns, too.

you get kneepads

Carpeting gone right out over here, i'd imagine 95% or better of new builds/redecoration go with hardwood or parquet

gardens!!

caek of course you would you grew up on a giant lawn

caek: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/21/080721crbo_books_kolbert

Also a pine floor is perfectly nice, but no one wants one, they want "hardwood", I mean expectations have also ratcheted up.

the last ten minutes of the new world was actually made at my house

yeah 'data point' but i dont think ive ever lived in a house w/ carpet (my parents places usually a combo of hardwood/tile/rugs and most apts. are parquet/tile

itt iatee scolds fat lazy americans for their love of soft surfaces

i will read that iatee, thanks. i think the lawn situation is quite different in britain though.

what's the lawn situation like in britain? you guys invented it right? I would imagine that since your place is so small, lawns are not out of control. america basically has infinite space so lawns present a huge sustainability problem and offer practically zero value.

I will grudgingly admit that a fairway or putting green is probably one of the nicest surfaces you could ever lay your bare feet on. I would be okay if all lawns were gotten rid of and only golf greens maintained.

you can find interesting bugs in lawns

lawns in the uk don't need watering is the main thing

and they basically don't need mowing for about 8 months of the year.

our living room is carpeted and the dining room isn't, i get on fine with both, jeez only on ilx etc etc

are you just talking about grass because

I dun wanna further hijack this thread but outside of the immediate environmental effects lawns also lead to unfriendly boulevard-type streets, lower density. in a lot of ways the concept of lawns has damaged the country more than single-family suburban houses (which can exist without lawns) - one house ends up using the space for 3. just so some kids can...play with their dog? I mean dogs are cool, I wish I had one. but still.

i get on fine with both, jeez only on ilx etc etc

― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 September 2011 19:18 (2 minutes ago)

yeah i think grass/gardens in britain are a different thing to that

people could replace lawns with vegetable gardens (as lamp said)

or you could grow an impenetrable wall of bamboo in front of your house, maybe keep a panda in the backyard

or pull up all the grass and turn your front lawn into a mini dirtbike course

i got fined £15 for walking on the grass at nrq's alma mater.

totally worth it

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1188/839601122_57ec792bfa.jpg

carpets upstairs, non-carpeted downsatirs.

NO CARPETS! NO LAWNS! FORESTS AND WOOD FLOORS TIL I DIE!

can you play bowls on that xp

do they just have a watchman there who waits til someone walks on it? what a horrible place

i never understood the rules at the posh colleges, nrq is the expert there.

that door is the main entrance, they saw me running out after a darts match, got my name from the home darts side, told my college. the rest is history.

japes!

that is a good candidate for choice incomprehensible posts from britisher threads

what kind of unbelievable wuss cant handle walking on hardwood with his bare feet

max 1000% otm

this thread still needs a hardcore carpet apologist

tough in these straitened times to find those qualifications just hanging round a message board tbf

can you just pretend to be one

lorax, surely

http://warcca.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/9_11_rug.jpg?w=500&h=618

haaaa

I've noticed a trend in mpls towards "wild lawns" with prairie grass and the like. I approve.

carpets are dumb, and I think iatee is right about how they became the de facto American flooring. I will never even begin to understand the carpeting of English bathrooms.

wait I thought that was a joke - english bathrooms are really carpeted??

carpeted, in like, shit?

it's weird

might be fun to have a room with carpet that you call "the carpet room"

Some bathrooms in the UK are carpeted, yeah. And it is stupid. I'm good with carpets in most other rooms, but bathrooms and kitchens are a no-no. Also, carpets = terrible when you are clumsy and drink lots of wine.

there are carpeted kitchens?!?

Well, no. But if there were I would be cross.

still makes more sense than bathrooms

i break into houses for my job and i've seen a few carpeted bathrooms. this is in the u.s. (nb they are usually 80s or older tho not always). the worst was a bathroom pretty much inside the main bedroom, like, to the side, with no partition or anything. just horrible grey carpet lapping at the double sink and clear plastic shower shore. sooooo grosssss. worse than seeing floor-to-ceiling mirrors or something.

matt, as a professional thief wouldn't carpets help you w/r/t tip-toeing etc.

oh the bank steals the house, i just steal what's left behind after they're gone.

Well now that depends on the carpet padding underneath. My room a long long time ago in the first house my family owned had squeaky carpet padding. A real BITCH for sneaking out of the crib, let me tell you.

Speaking of the suburbs!

or pull up all the grass and turn your front lawn into a mini dirtmountain bike course

Uh my brother's friend in central MI who is a doctor and lives in a pricey cul-de-sac subdivision did to the back yard already. Have a feeling the neighbors are not amused.

http://www.goldcitypestservices.com/Level%20Loop%20Pile%20Carpet.jpg

do you really want to put your feet on this

it's a pretty sweet gig if you like folding scooters. xxp

it looks like an electron microscope's imaging of mad cow disease

hardwood floors are horrible & carpet rules & proof is how many hardwood floor owners have expensive "persian" rugs to cover & make soft their hardwood floors. even the supports of hardwood floors admit the truth!

this battle is personal b/c I love carpet & my wife loves hardwood floors & I won with this house & indeed every house/flat in the USA we've ever had but I fear with the next one we'll be enough upmarket that she'll win, & then we'll do the dumb persian rug thing

yesss we've found one

they also have persian rugs because they're expensive

http://rap361.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cowboy1.jpg

also further evidence in favor of the obvious truth:

http://www.rvgoddess.com/POSTCARDS/2004/BigTrip/Photos/050804-Graceland%2008.JPG

the "Jungle Room" at Graceland

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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5134/5585301593_5c865da90c.jpg

the carpeted stairwell which upon entering I immediately thought "it is good for us to be here"

there is a huge difference between putting a beautiful woven rug on your hardwood floor and installing wall-to-wall carpeting

CEILING TO FLOOR CARPETING dammit

my lease actually requires a 80% of the floorspace to be covered in rug. it's not a law, but I don't think that's a super unusual clause. nobody in the building seems to follow it, tho.

but that's to say, at least some people are living a rug-lyfe cause it was imposed on them

Carpeting rules, especially when it rolls up the walls and ceiling too.

Can't stand wooden floors, although inexplicably I like wood paneling on walls. Maybe because I don't have to walk on it.

We had acres of blue carpet covering nearly every floor surface of our flat - when we re-did it we kept wood floors in living room & kitchen, replaced bathroom lino with this stuff which I've also seen in commercial places - would never have carpet in the bathroom wtf, and tiles/wood wouldn't work; also a sisal floor runner up the stairs and landing, and carpet in the bedrooms but the bedrooms have steps in them which were previously covered in carpet which are now just wood. We have a nice fluffy rug to go on the wood floor.

I remember going on a French exchange when I was a kid and marvelling at their wooden floors and carpeted walls!

I only care about the carpet matching the drapes.

No I am not loading all messages to see of someone said that already.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Carpets!!!! But never in bathrooms, and only if the people in the house are decent enough to not wear shoes indoors.

[Wearing shoes indoors is totally filthy btw and people who do this are disgusting savages imo]

nothing wrong with wearing shoes indoors so long as it's someone else's house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoFwttFEYLQ

Uncarpeted but with rugs

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i just got slippers with chamois leather soles and arch support. feeling good.

Carpet is absolutely disgusting and should be subjected to some sort of steam/chemical cleaning yearly, at least. Never been more disgusted than looking at the filth a good steam cleaning can bring out.

Our apt has the very mad cow carpeting that Dan posted in the bedrooms, hardwood everywhere else except tile in the bathroom.

Another carpet pro is that it is good for sound dampening. I would like it if everybody who lived above us had wall to wall shag carpeting in their apartments.

That's also why you need to put rugs on wood floors. Otherwise the room is all echoey and cold.