If anyone is considering installing carpet

[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.