Why do you care the carpet is a little beat up (but clean) if you're going to wear shoes on it anyway

[GraceKrispy]

We never wear shoes on our carpet. We rent. I'm sure the carpet is appreciated by the downstairs neighbors (dampening the footfall), but I dislike renting places with carpeting. Who knows what's living in there.

We steam clean our carpet twice a year, and don't wear shoes on it.

[Kim in FL]

Originally Posted by momtothree

We don't wear shoes in the house and guests leave shoes at door. We have temp slippers by the door for those that don't want to but haven't yet seen anyone use them as they just slip off their shoes at the door too.

So not an issue but yeah, it can echo if people were clickety clack shoes!

I have 3500sft with 14 and 16 ft ceilings...it will echo like mad. The bathrooms, laundry room, kitchen and courtyard will have slate, but we can't decide on the rest of it. sigh

[eok]

Originally Posted by FloridaHappy

Carpet is just nasty. Yuck. If you're ever around when it's taken up, you'll never have that miserable stuff on your floors again. And people put their kids down with their noses right in the carpet!! Dogs walk on it with muck all over their feet. Cats and kids puke on it. Just nasty. And people wonder why their kids have "allergies," it's the dust and dirt and mites they're inhaling. Let's don't forget the fleas off the animals either. Just take it all up and put down tile or laminate. Much easier to keep clean and if tenants want a rug, they can go buy one at Walmart and take the nasty thing with them when they leave.

Neither my own home nor my 2 rentals have carpet and I have no problem renting out the rentals if they come empty. One had carpet when I bought it, belonged to a smoker, and the guy who pulled up the carpet (who happened himself to be a smoker) got so sick from the smell he went outside and hurled in the yard. What idiot ever thought of putting cloth (which is technically what it is) on the floor? Just disgusting stuff.

I read an article about kids with dogs not getting allergies and asthma as much as kids without dogs. It said it was because dogs gave them germs by licking their faces, and that built up their immune systems. By that logic, carpet should be good for kids.

We live in a contaminated world. Our gardens have millions of nasty borderline-microscopic creatures. We have germs all over our bodies, no matter how OCD we get about bathing frequently. But this is the world we're built for. Carpet fits right in.

One thing that seems logically like it might help might be to use a 6 HP Shop Vac with a funnel nozzle to give your carpet an extreme vacuuming that pulls the dust right up from the under-carpet padding through the fibers to get most of it out. But that might take hours of tedious work, because you could only do a few square inches at a time. Maybe we need an extreme-power Roomba to keep vacuuming the carpet for weeks, getting it gradually cleaner. Then, when most of the dust is gone, steam clean it.