If anyone is considering installing carpet

[bmccasland]

My Great Uncle sold "flooring" which in-the-day meant vinyl or carpeting. Each area of his house had something different. Vinyl in kitchen/dining room, a lovely patterned carpet in the formal living room & dining room, one bedroom wing had another carpet, family room - different carpet, and the master's suite a 4th carpet. Thresholds were interesting to say the least. But carpet everywhere was the thing to do in the 1960's and 1970's. Funny how things are coming full circle. Unless you have in-floor heating, one thing carpet does hold over solid flooring is that it's warmer. Not important in the sun belt, but does have it's value in cooler climes.

[Tri Girl]

we had to remove the carpet in our master bedroom after it flooded 4 years ago. It was DISGUSTING all the dog hair under the carpet and stuck to the concrete slab. Ewwww!
The floor remained concrete until just last year when I finally stained it. I love the stained concrete. We have replaced the carpet in another bedroom, too. Our whole kitchen, living, dining room is all spanish tile and it's SO nice with the dogs (sure, we get dog-hair tumbleweeds, but I can handle that).

Carpet and allergies/asthma is bad juju.
I hate carpet. yuck!

[jessmarimba]

I don't technically have in-floor heating. But between my squirrel infestation last year and whatever chewed the hole into the corner of my bedroom floor, I doubt the 50-year-old ducts are in great shape. So all of the heat that leaks out of them essentially creates - radiant flooring! Ta-DA! (Kind of nice, since there is only one heat vent upstairs anyway)

(Ducts are b/t first and second floors - I don't have a/c, so I can't figure out why they did that. The first floor is never going to be warm.)

[Owlie]

Part of the reason my mom changed the floor (except in the rooms where the carpet is in good shape) was because DBF (she seems to like him ) has allergy-triggered asthma, and I have seasonal allergies and eczema, so I'm at a higher risk for developing asthma. That, and it's a heck of a lot easier to clean...pretty sure that's the main reason.

My old apartment had wood floors... so easy to clean (even if they were in terrible shape), but horribly cold in winter. (It had nothing on the vinyl bathroom or the tile kitchen floors, though.)

[Biciclista]

i tore all the carpets out of my house when we moved in. One by one. Then refinished the floor. over 25 years now, still don't want carpet.

[malkin]

We have just finished removing carpet from our new-to-us hundred year old house. The carpet was probably not more than 5 years old, but the previous owners' dogs apparently preferred it to the great outdoors, and the owners dealt with this by liberal applications of Carpet Fresh and those plug in air fresheners.
*gag*

We've also been painting walls and un-painting windows that haven't opened in years.

It is as much work as training for a century, but doesn't leave much time for cycling.