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DarkStar's picture

That's it, I've flipped my lid, lost my sh!t, flown the coop, gone plain crazy!!!!!!  Over carpet.  I love spring, it's my favorite time of year, but it's also the time of year when my beloved doggy starts eating grass and the puking and pooping starts.  Generally in our bedroom, of course.

Last night, one puke on the carpet.  This morning, one poop on the tile, one NASTY poop on the carpet!!!!  Almost had another puke to clean up from myself!

Carpet is disgusting.  If you have kids and pets, it's truly disgusting.  I have vaccummed and blotted and scrubbed and steam cleaned and professionally done everything and all I can think about when I walk across the carpet is all the dust, dirt, poop, vomit, spills, stains, and God knows what else is fermenting and growing in those nasty little carpet fibers.  I want to tear ALL of the nasty carpet out of this house!!!!!  

For realz....anyone else dealing with this?  Anyone that still LOVES their carpeted floors and has kids or pets?  

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NotYourAverageStepMama's picture

Our living room, my office, and our bedroom are the only places with carpet. We have a cat and two dogs so I love area rugs in some areas, BUT when we bought this house a couple months ago, the carpet was just newly done so we did not want to tear it out, BUT I am also counting down the days and saving the money to rip out the carpet and put LVT in the rest of the house. We are contemplating leaving it in the living room because it is nice to have in there, but otherwise, HELL no to carpet and pets. The other week I was MISERABLE because I had to take out the carpet cleaner 3 days in a row. 

On the other hand pet hair shows SO much quicker where there is not carpet, but I feel like hard surface flooring you feel like at the end of the day it is cleaner than carpet. We also don't allow outside shoes in the house on the carpeted areas.

Survivingstephell's picture

We plan on putting the carpet squares in our bedroom.  We don't have any pets right now but might very soon.  

classyNJ's picture

Carpet give me the shakes LOL.

When we moved into the our home, I wanted to rip up the carpet and hardwood thru out, but DH says its like a dust bunny collector and with the cat and dog and living in the woods, there would tumbleweeds everywhere.  Sooo we replaced carpet with carpet.  I get it professionally cleaned 4 times a year (Stanley Steemer has great deals)

Our pup is going on 16 and kitty on 15.  Pup went from 65 to 44 pounds in 2 months.  Vet said he is healthy except for old age.  

When they pass, I will be pulling up that nasty carpet

ndc's picture

I hate carpet. Carpet doesn't play well with small children and pets.  We have no wall to wall carpet, only area rugs, in our home.  And those area rugs get disgusting, but I can  eventually toss and replace them when they get really bad.  In all honesty, DD3 is much worse on the rugs than our dog.

Cover1W's picture

We have carpeting only in our master suite and the main stairs. The stair carpet was new when we moved in and the bedroom stuff not so much. I have been living with it because other projects took precedence, but my limit has been reached after 6 years. No matter how much cleaning is done they still look dirty. Cheap brown stuff on the stairs and decent quality but frakin' cream carpet in the bedroom. My DH is harder on it than the cats ever were.

I'd love to just rip it all out and put wood in but then we'd have to match the living area to it all - i.e. refinish the living area wood too which would be around, oh, $20K. NOPE. So I'm going for new high quality remnant carpets (matching this time) and a good wool carpet pad for the master suite since we are above the garage.

I'm measuring and getting quotes this coming weekend. Finally a project that only is for me. No one else gets on iota of say in it since everything else I've done has been for everyone else too.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

The only place I like a full room of carpet is the bedroom because it was mostly pet/skid free. DH and I both prefer area rugs and were talking last night about removing wall-to-wall and replacing with wood and area rugs.

Crspyew's picture

We have hardwood everywhere but two small bedrooms.  Area rugs throughout the rest of the house. Have a few "ruggables" in the areas the dog likes to hang out.  They really do wash well.  We've had anywhere from 1 to 4 dogs in this house and the floors have held up well.  I have a robotic vacuum and run it 3 times a week and it does a wonderful job of keeping the floors clean even with a beagle that she's constantly.

halo1998's picture

In fact on our first floor at one point we had 5..yes 5 different kinds of flooring.  With kids and dogs the carpets started to look and smell horrible.  No amount of cleaning would help..so I finally began to rip it all out and I put in lvp.  Best decision ever....easy to clean.  I use rugs from ruggable now...they are maching washable and can be changed out.  One of the best investments that I made.  Took me a year or so to get all the floors replaced since I did it myself..but it was worth it.  I will never have carpeting again.

simifan's picture

I guess I'm the odd one out. I have hardwood, tile & laminate. No carpetting at all. I hate it. The floors are always cold & with puppers look filthy five minutes after being vacuumed and mopped (how can a dog lose that much fur and not be bald?). I wish I had carpetting, much easier to keep looking clean. 

Winterglow's picture

Where I live, I don't know anyone who has carpet ... There was carpet in our last home, in the bedroom, when we bought it. We swiftly ripped it up and tiled the floor. In our current home, we have tiles, marble and hardwood.  I cannot bear the idea of carpet. Yuck!

Exjuliemccoy's picture

I have mostly hardwood and stone floors, but the family room and guest bedrooms have carpet. When we bought the home we put in new Stainmaster carpeting, which comes with a ten year guarantee. At nine years, when our last dog aged out, I went to replace the family room carpeting. The warranty was so good that I only paid $250 (prorated for age) for the new stuff.

As nice as hardwood and marble are, they require a lot of mainenance and care. And those stone floors are cold in winter! If money were no object I'd go with LVP throughout; there's some truly lovely and durable manmade flooring available today.

Rags's picture

Our current home (we rent) has no w2w carpet.  We love it.  We do have a number of tribal carpets in our home that we have collected over the years living overseas. The whole place is laminate floors. If we bought it, we would go with either LVP/T or no grout line ceramic or stone. 

The home we are selling in Tx, is 80% tile with w2w carpet only in the bedrooms. If we had found it two weeks earlier when we bought it, we would have had the tile installed in the rest of the house.

I... hate..... carpet.  It is the nastiest stuff.

Living overseas, all of our homes did not have a stitch of carpet in them.  They were all tile or stone floors.  So much cleaner, far less dust, no nastiness.

The home we are selling is less than 5yrs old and looks unlived in. Though if anyone does a Luminol test they will find some organic material in the middle of the MBR. I blew my bone out of the side of my leg a month after we bought it and bled all over the house as I crawled from the front door to the MBR to get my cell phone.  I bagged my leg with a large garbage bag in the kitchen but it slipped off as I crawled the rest of the way through the house.

We had it professionally cleaned and there is no discernable stain, but.... no cleaning of carpet gets every microbe.

Bad

Throw in pets and babies/toddlers and carpet is a petri dish of nastiness. And mold. We can't forget mold.