I don’t like carpets :-( (by alaric)
It seems I'm always having to try and clean liquids out of carpets.
In our previous place, there was carpet in the bathroom; cream carpet. With damp barefooted people getting in and out of the bath, plus the carpet often getting wet due to the leakage problems then being walked on, this meant it was a right pain keeping it dry and clean.
Then there's the problems we've had with flooding here, in our carpeted kitchen. Again, having a carpet in the kitchen is a bit of a pain, since it's a nightmare to clean if you spill anything.
And now we have kittens, who it turns out the mother of hadn't quite finished toilet training, so we're having to encourage one of them to use the litter tray. And I'm having to clean kitten turds out of the carpet... which isn't so bad, if a little labour intensive compared to the simple wipe/spray cleaning stuff/wipe again routine required when they go on a HARD surface; but when they pee on the carpet, all I can do is to keep making the carpet sopping wet with disinfectant-laced water and then sponge it up again a few times in the hope of diluting the urine in a greater mass of water, then trying to get most of it up again.
Ugh.
Gimmee tiles any day. With rugs laid down for comfort in places where we might walk barefoot, that can be easily lifted to be hosed down if they get mucky.
Thu 13th Jul 2006 1:26 pm 
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By Sarah, Thu 13th Jul 2006 @ 3:25 pm
You forgot to mention trying to clean up baby vomit and milky drool!
And next come the potty training 🙁
Oh well good job Aunty Lizzy has a steam cleaner 🙂
By becca, Fri 14th Jul 2006 @ 9:31 am
Gimme tiles with underfloor heating.....even better!
By Sarah, Fri 14th Jul 2006 @ 9:22 pm
Under floor heating is supposed to be the most efficient too! Its what we want.
By Violet, Mon 17th Jul 2006 @ 11:06 am
Actually, I say give me lino (with fake tiles painted on it if you like), because stuff doesn't break when you (or someone else) drops it onto lino, and you'd have plenty of smashed crockery with tiles.
By Lionel, Sun 30th Jul 2006 @ 10:06 am
I hated that swirly carpet in the kitchen area when I lived there. Always wanted to lay down cork tiles from the staircase to the cooker and sink area but ran out of money. I found that carpet too dark and overwhelming anyway - would have gone for the speckly cotswold grey type of carpet myself, ,ake it a bit lighter.