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I'm putting cork in my bedrooms and office. It's warm, soft, easy to clean, and durable. Easy to install as well. Most of it is click lock and floats like a dream. And it sound dampens! The people who lived in my house before me didn't have kids or pets for 30 years and the carpet was only a decade old when we moved in and it looked immaculate on top but god almighty when I ran a steam cleaner over it, came out black. Carpet is gross. edit: Also, beating the dust out of rugs is like the best dumb kid activity. I used to legitimately enjoy taking a baseball bat to a big rear end runner rug as a kid. Beat it till no more dust! silicone thrills fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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I've spent the last year in a house with bare subfloor, so I'll take whatever I can get.
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Aug 13, 2019 23:20
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B-Nasty posted:if it's vacuumed frequently, steam cleaned occasionally, replaced every decade or two, and you're not a filthy person or don't have filthy animals this describes no houses I've entered in the US
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Aug 13, 2019 23:34
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wolrah posted:I think the problem is that too many people want to think one thing is best for everything. This is a good post. I learned that at one point in the US a hardwood floor was required to get an FHA or VA loan, up until 1966. There were a lot of people using those loans at the time so hardwood was in nearly every new home built. After that away carpet became offered more and was probably cheaper and became popular because its what was everywhere. Which helps explains why people were covering hardwood with carpet, they didn't want their houses to look dated. I don't think of this time in America as being terribly sentimental towards old design, very oriented to the future. Obviously the overcorrected by putting it in the drat kitchen though. Like anything though I'm sure those of you who love hardwood and hard surface floors will live to see a time when carpeting is desirable again. Maybe we'll invent a new fiber that won't mat or stain and vacuums easily.
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Aug 14, 2019 01:03
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StormDrain posted:This is a good post. My first house was a fifties row house, we pulled up the carpet and found fantastic oak floors, with a sander applied.
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Burt Sexual posted:My first house was a fifties row house, we pulled up the carpet and found fantastic oak floors, with a sander applied. Sounds like the house my friends are looking to buy. You can open the closets and see the original oak flooring, but the rest of the house is carpet (and no pad, so just low-ish pile on wood, for the least comfort possible). There's even laminate over the kitchen floor. I told him if he doesn't pull that poo poo up and refinish the floor upon owning the house, we're no longer friends. This place is an effortpost unto itself, but I haven't had time to edit out identifying info in the photos yet. Apparently the owner was a DIY electrician, and hooo BOY, he made CHOICES. If my friends end up with this place, I have a feeling the phrase, "Oh, Murray," is going to be said aloud very, very frequently. The best part was chatting with the realtor, and I happened to glance at her tote bag full of paperwork, and the sheet on top was all about asbestos from Libby, MT. "Oh hey, vermiculite? Yeah, my dad used to mine that poo poo.  "
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Aug 14, 2019 01:27
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Some wonderful replies to this https://twitter.com/SJSchauer/status/1160336040189710336 https://twitter.com/babyyppeach/status/1160465433037660160
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I imagine that's actually new and they used black grout to make it look like a filthy 1950s soviet brutalist concrete apartment building shower on purpose Alternatively, that someone thought it'd be a good idea to use drop ceiling tiles to line their shower with, somehow
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Aug 14, 2019 02:57
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Scarodactyl posted:Carpet feels nice and rugs usually don't. You must buy some lovely rugs....... I've been happy for most of my life in old rear end homes with hardwood floors and rugs where they make sense.
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Aug 14, 2019 03:03
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Slightly OT, bit relevant to the carpets in kitchens chat. Here's a loving restaurant carpet. How anyone looked at that and though "this is fine, lets eat" is beyond me Gross af, yet so, so satisfying. There's a whole subreddit too https://www.reddit.com/r/carpetcleaningporn/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8xVNxia5Q
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Iron Crowned posted:I feel like carpeting everything was a reaction to hardwood floors and the constant need to sweep/mop/polish them. With a carpet you just vacuum the poo poo and call it good. I have a dust mop and it takes me less than two minutes to do my entire 3 bedroom house. It helps that it's almost 1m across and fits perfectly across the hallway. 
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Aug 14, 2019 08:32
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Also the only difference between carpet and hard floors in terms of the "need to sweep and mop them" is that you *can't* mop a carpet. All a hard floor does is give you the ability to get it cleaner more easily. If you're happy with "vacuum it and call it done" then you can do that with hard floors too.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:13
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Acoustically, carpet is better. I think that's really all I can think of as a benefit over hard floors. I have a rug in my living and bedrooms so that I have a nice socks pad in our chill rooms.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:46
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It's comfier for sure, but I don't think it can win out on an argument of being easier to clean.
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Whenever l had a sleepover at a friend's house I'd wake up feeling really nasty, it took us far too long to figure out that it was the old dusty carpet his parents kept. gently caress that noise, only go for a carpet if you can handle the cleaning, don't make your houseguests feel sick.
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Aug 14, 2019 10:43
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By popular demand posted:Whenever l had a sleepover at a friend's house I'd wake up feeling really nasty, it took us far too long to figure out that it was the old dusty carpet his parents kept. Like the feeling you get after sleeping in a room that’s been smoked in?
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Aug 14, 2019 10:48
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That never happened, my family aren't smokers. It just felt like I developed a bad case of influenza overnight.🤧🤒
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Aug 14, 2019 10:50
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By popular demand posted:That never happened, my family aren't smokers. I get it in some hotel rooms, even supposedly non‐smoking ones. It passes pretty quickly in the morning, but goddamn does it feel bad upon waking.
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When I was a student I used to sometimes help a friend set up for big second-hand book sales for a bit of extra cash. One morning I was unpacking boxes of books that came from the estate of a deceased mechanic, with 30+ years of workshop soot and dust on them. Within an hour of starting I felt like I was dying of turbo-influenza and went home sick, where the symptoms slowly wore off over the rest of the day.
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'Liquid slurry rinse'Jaded Burnout posted:Also the only difference between carpet and hard floors in terms of the "need to sweep and mop them" is that you *can't* mop a carpet. All a hard floor does is give you the ability to get it cleaner more easily. If you're happy with "vacuum it and call it done" then you can do that with hard floors too. Then I realise that there is the same amount of dirt, you just don't see it so well on the carpets and it's ground-in instead.
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Shut up Meg posted:Then I realise that there is the same amount of dirt, you just don't see it so well on the carpets and it's ground-in instead. 'xactly
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Aug 14, 2019 11:16
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loving dust mites just hiding in the thick brush like the Viet Cong, waiting for your unsuspecting nasal airways to suck them in.
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After running the cleaner over a superficially "not visibly dirty" carpet: And that's the really short tight carpet in my camping trailer, imagine what's hiding in your luxury deep pile carpet...
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cakesmith handyman posted:And that's the really short tight carpet in my camping trailer, imagine what's hiding in your luxury deep pile carpet... Three stud earrings from a former tenant in the basement of the house I was renting Glad none of them stuck my foot
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The Glumslinger posted:Some wonderful replies to this Here is a dump of them all: https://imgur.com/gallery/S0Twc17
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Devor posted:Three stud earrings from a former tenant in the basement of the house I was renting If we're playing this game, can we include things found under a fitted carpet? I found a used condom under my bedroom carpet and I am still purplexed why. Were they laying the new carpet, saw the old condom and thought 'shall we get rid of that? Nah, why bother?' Or was the act of laying the carpet so erotically charged that they had to give into their passion there and then?
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Adolf Glitter posted:Slightly OT, bit relevant to the carpets in kitchens chat. Here's a loving restaurant carpet. You know, I never would have guessed that one of the results of being able to take and share video was that we'd end up with tons of clips of people cleaning their floors and reviews of office elevators. What's even weirder is that is probably the best content we've gotten from it, there is so much that is so much worse.
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https://gfycat.com/apprehensivewhirlwindcatbird Here's a gif you can smell 
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Close call there buddy. are you even supposed to ever use a chainsaw in that high an angle?
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Adolf Glitter posted:Slightly OT, bit relevant to the carpets in kitchens chat. Here's a loving restaurant carpet. This is one of my favorite videos. No lie. That dirty "water" is almost a solid. Ew.
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canyoneer posted:xpost from scoodyfroode thread You can see the moment he realizes this is a bad idea and he needs to get down.
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Aug 14, 2019 19:04
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When all you have is a chainsaw, every problem looks like an opportunity to bisect your own head.
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canyoneer posted:xpost from scoodyfroode thread  I was having a hard time getting the pic to load in there and maybe it was better that way. Holy gently caress he almost loving died gruesomely.
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Baronjutter posted:You can see the moment he realizes this is a bad idea and he needs to get down. 
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cakesmith handyman posted:And that's the really short tight carpet in my camping trailer, imagine what's hiding in your luxury deep pile carpet... There could be a whole world in there.
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StormDrain posted:This is a good post. It's even simpler then that. They didn't want to look poor. Buying a tract home post-WW2 and not installing wall-to-wall carpeting immediately implied that you were a not middle class. Source: Every old person I've talked to ever.
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TheMadMilkman posted:It's even simpler then that. They didn't want to look poor. Buying a tract home post-WW2 and not installing wall-to-wall carpeting immediately implied that you were a not middle class. Yep, that was absolutely generational thing. My last house was bought from someone like that. I really appreciated that they kept the beautiful hardwood floors protected by their ugly tan wall to wall carpet.
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By popular demand posted:Close call there buddy. He's literally trying to cut with the kickback zone at the upper tip of the saw. The tip grips instead of cutting, tries to move like a tank track and flicks the chainsaw back in the direction of your face. That's exactly what the big fender thing (the chain brake) between your front arm and the bar is intended nullify. When the saw kicks back your arm pushes it forward and applies the brake. Jaguars! fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Aug 14, 2019 |
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