suckolux
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No moisture at all Les, last refinished in 1955, some spots are bare wood,of course the finish has oranged? Over the years. Colored paste wax on the raw spots. Looks amazing for a while.
Carpet out of fashion?
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madman
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Sound is one of the problems with hard floors. Tile floors are the worst. It has to be offset with lots of fluffy soft furniture and area rugs. Tapestries if you're desperate. I hate the sound of an empty house.
My entire first floor is mostly one big open space, kitchen, living, dining, entry. All hardwood. Big Persian rug in the living area, lots of soft couches, none of that empty home echo. Some of that, I think, is due to the old fashioned plaster lath walls. They're about an inch thick and really hard. Seems to deaden sound a lot better than drywall, which I guess being thinner and lighter, can vibrate with the sounds easier. idk.
My entire first floor is mostly one big open space, kitchen, living, dining, entry. All hardwood. Big Persian rug in the living area, lots of soft couches, none of that empty home echo. Some of that, I think, is due to the old fashioned plaster lath walls. They're about an inch thick and really hard. Seems to deaden sound a lot better than drywall, which I guess being thinner and lighter, can vibrate with the sounds easier. idk.
mark40511
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Still need a vacuum tho
Just not neccessarily a PN or upright, etc.
My house is from 2004. it's wall to wall berber in all areas except for the bathrooms/kitchen, which are tile/linoleum
If had to do over, I'd want hard floors all over. But I do love berber. That's my favorite carpeting. I've always hated carpet that's thick and leaves vacuum lines or footprints, etc.
Just not neccessarily a PN or upright, etc.
My house is from 2004. it's wall to wall berber in all areas except for the bathrooms/kitchen, which are tile/linoleum
If had to do over, I'd want hard floors all over. But I do love berber. That's my favorite carpeting. I've always hated carpet that's thick and leaves vacuum lines or footprints, etc.
human
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My favorite carpet I ever had was a sculptured pile in variegated shades of brown that was in the first townhouse I bought in the mid '90s. The carpet was probably original to the place, which was built in the late '70s, but was in really good shape, except where the sun had faded it in the dining room, next to the sliding glass door. I ended up replacing that with oak parquet tiles, which is a horror story I have already related. The real beauty of that carpet was if you spilled something on it, the stain was effectively camouflaged. Sculptured pile was in vogue all too briefly in the late '70s and into the '80s as shag was fading from fashion.
My entire house is carpeted with the exception of the bathrooms. My uprights and PN canisters love the carpet! I know some collectors who barely have any carpet or rugs but yet have over 100 uprights. I don't get it.
electroluxxxx
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I have wall to wall carpet in the upstairs portion of my house and oak flooring downstairs with area rugs in my main room of the house and the living room. I’m more of a wall to wall carpet person with the exception of dining rooms, kitchens and bathrooms. When it comes to the type of carpeting, usually anything thick and soft I like.
mark40511
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Carpeting in Kitchen
When I was young, and my mom and dad were getting a divorce, we stayed with my mom's friend and her kids, and she was also in the process of getting a divorce. Anyway, their house was 1970s and had carpet in the kitchen and I remember that was the grossest carpet EVER! It was like an indoor outdoor low pile type carpet but it felt like it had bacon grease all over it. So nasty! There is no way I would ever have carpet in a kitchen.
When I was young, and my mom and dad were getting a divorce, we stayed with my mom's friend and her kids, and she was also in the process of getting a divorce. Anyway, their house was 1970s and had carpet in the kitchen and I remember that was the grossest carpet EVER! It was like an indoor outdoor low pile type carpet but it felt like it had bacon grease all over it. So nasty! There is no way I would ever have carpet in a kitchen.
It’s a cycle
When I was a kid, older homes had hardwoods and area rugs, then wall to wall carpeting became the rage...then once people discovered it would have wear patterns and matted areas and also stain and smell from pet accidents it became a gross thing to have and also it had been out a long, long time, changing color and style in popularity of decorating trends. Then, after so many years someone decided that hardwoods would look great with a variety of new finishes, such as hand scraping, etc. It was a totally new take on wood flooring and also went well with the new “Tuscan look” that became the rage. As decorating trends have evolved, so has hard flooring and people who mostly grew up in homes with carpet, now tired of it and don’t really know anything else so the hardwood is “new” to them and unlike anything they ever lived with. And in this day of more and more people having pets and allergies they are realizing hard floors are a jiffy to keep clean in comparison to carpet. And for softness one can add an inexpensive area rug and if it gets soiled badly they can just replace it for minimal cost.
I can’t believe people actually live in hard floor homes with no vacuum cleaners. Crazy...there is so much more a vacuum cleaner can clean than just carpet..upholstered furniture, baseboards, windowsills, under appliances, etc. I would never live without a vacuum cleaner. I primarily have An Aerus/Electrolux canister which adapts to ALL surfaces and I vacuum my hard floors to suck up all the dust and not have it churned back up in the air by a broom. Those swifter pads are a joke and have a continual cost too..they just don’t get up everything thoroughly. But it really depends on how thoroughly one wishes to clean, some people are more fussy about cleaning than others.
Once you have children crawling on floors and you have to get down on the floor with them you suddenly realize how dirty and dusty the floors get just after a few days. After swiffering the floors still look and feel dirty to me as they drag a lot around and don’t pick EVERYTHING up but after vacuuming with a canister with a floor brush attachment, the floors are really crumb, sand, mud, dust and dirt free and thoroughly clean.
For our area rugs I just change to the power nozzle attachment which cleans them thoroughly.
Some homes nowadays I have found have a mix of hard floors in living areas and some area rugs and perhaps wall to wall carpeting in the bedrooms because people like carpet in the bedrooms to insulate from cold floors and deaden sound. They also limit pets from the bedrooms and food from the bedrooms so that can prevent those type issues with carpet. A canister like the Aerus/Electrolux works for all of these surfaces with ease on all and even gets under furniture without moving it and can clean under couch cushions, carpeted stairs and mattresses easily too.
I notice a lot of young people do t have vacuums but buy small area rugs and then those get to be gross because the dust and dirt on the hard floor gets stuck to the bottom of ones shoes or feet then get wiped off on the small area rug and they have no way to clean the area rug besides maybe taking it outside and shaking it or “bearing it with a stick” ....really...so people will reinvent the Canister vacuum cleaner because they will get tired of beating carpet with a stick and go to Walmart and realize the only option for a vacuum is an upright which isn’t designed for all purpose or ease of use under furniture, stairs and the like.
I don’t know...I grew up with Electrolux canisters and we had a mix of wall to wall carpet, hardwoods with large carpets in them, and other rooms with no carpet and just hard surfaces and we never had an issue cleaning any of it including vacuuming out the cars and a multitude of other cleaning needs such as furniture, blinds, drapes, spider webs in corners and ceilings, cleaning dust behind furniture and on baseboard ledges. It seemed to be the most versatile vacuum cleaner. It’s no wonder it became an overnight sensation when it was first brought to America...it just made sense as at that time...hard wood floors were the standard with area rugs and upholstered furniture and drapes that collect dust too were all in. While some prefer uprights for their ease in not having anything dragging behind you, people who Who preferred uprights for carpet but were also really clean people, often had a canister too for all the other needs because using or converting an upright For tools just was too cumbersome to do or use. A Kirby may clean carpet wonderfully and be a well built machine, and have convertibility, the fact still remains, it is not as easy to convert between carpet and attachment cleaning and back again quickly.
For me often I’ll be making my way around the room cleaning the floors but suddenly see a cob web in a corner on the baseboard, or need to vacuum off crumbs from the couch and I can just stop doing the floor and pull the hose handle or floor attachment or power nozzle off and get that spot in seconds and convert right back and that pls what makes using the versatility of a canister so great.
I do like the new stick vacs too like the Shark rocket that have the motor and dirt canister by the handle and then a wand and power nozzle and or floor brush at the bottom, they make for very versatile vacuum cleaners that even convert to hand held vacuums so they can clean everything with ease WITHOUT having a canister dragging behind...so they seem to satisfy both upright and canister lovers with one main complaint...they don’t stand up on their own but some do fold to stand on their own, but they can easily lean against a wall or Piece of furniture. Some of these even come with mini power nozzles as an added option and a multitude of tools that can be used wither right on the motor head or at the end of the main wand which make for a very versatile product. I know people with small to medium sized homes and apartment dwellers who have converted to this type of vacuum due to limited storage space and not necessarily the need for a larger heavier duty vacuum cleaner.
Jon
When I was a kid, older homes had hardwoods and area rugs, then wall to wall carpeting became the rage...then once people discovered it would have wear patterns and matted areas and also stain and smell from pet accidents it became a gross thing to have and also it had been out a long, long time, changing color and style in popularity of decorating trends. Then, after so many years someone decided that hardwoods would look great with a variety of new finishes, such as hand scraping, etc. It was a totally new take on wood flooring and also went well with the new “Tuscan look” that became the rage. As decorating trends have evolved, so has hard flooring and people who mostly grew up in homes with carpet, now tired of it and don’t really know anything else so the hardwood is “new” to them and unlike anything they ever lived with. And in this day of more and more people having pets and allergies they are realizing hard floors are a jiffy to keep clean in comparison to carpet. And for softness one can add an inexpensive area rug and if it gets soiled badly they can just replace it for minimal cost.
I can’t believe people actually live in hard floor homes with no vacuum cleaners. Crazy...there is so much more a vacuum cleaner can clean than just carpet..upholstered furniture, baseboards, windowsills, under appliances, etc. I would never live without a vacuum cleaner. I primarily have An Aerus/Electrolux canister which adapts to ALL surfaces and I vacuum my hard floors to suck up all the dust and not have it churned back up in the air by a broom. Those swifter pads are a joke and have a continual cost too..they just don’t get up everything thoroughly. But it really depends on how thoroughly one wishes to clean, some people are more fussy about cleaning than others.
Once you have children crawling on floors and you have to get down on the floor with them you suddenly realize how dirty and dusty the floors get just after a few days. After swiffering the floors still look and feel dirty to me as they drag a lot around and don’t pick EVERYTHING up but after vacuuming with a canister with a floor brush attachment, the floors are really crumb, sand, mud, dust and dirt free and thoroughly clean.
For our area rugs I just change to the power nozzle attachment which cleans them thoroughly.
Some homes nowadays I have found have a mix of hard floors in living areas and some area rugs and perhaps wall to wall carpeting in the bedrooms because people like carpet in the bedrooms to insulate from cold floors and deaden sound. They also limit pets from the bedrooms and food from the bedrooms so that can prevent those type issues with carpet. A canister like the Aerus/Electrolux works for all of these surfaces with ease on all and even gets under furniture without moving it and can clean under couch cushions, carpeted stairs and mattresses easily too.
I notice a lot of young people do t have vacuums but buy small area rugs and then those get to be gross because the dust and dirt on the hard floor gets stuck to the bottom of ones shoes or feet then get wiped off on the small area rug and they have no way to clean the area rug besides maybe taking it outside and shaking it or “bearing it with a stick” ....really...so people will reinvent the Canister vacuum cleaner because they will get tired of beating carpet with a stick and go to Walmart and realize the only option for a vacuum is an upright which isn’t designed for all purpose or ease of use under furniture, stairs and the like.
I don’t know...I grew up with Electrolux canisters and we had a mix of wall to wall carpet, hardwoods with large carpets in them, and other rooms with no carpet and just hard surfaces and we never had an issue cleaning any of it including vacuuming out the cars and a multitude of other cleaning needs such as furniture, blinds, drapes, spider webs in corners and ceilings, cleaning dust behind furniture and on baseboard ledges. It seemed to be the most versatile vacuum cleaner. It’s no wonder it became an overnight sensation when it was first brought to America...it just made sense as at that time...hard wood floors were the standard with area rugs and upholstered furniture and drapes that collect dust too were all in. While some prefer uprights for their ease in not having anything dragging behind you, people who Who preferred uprights for carpet but were also really clean people, often had a canister too for all the other needs because using or converting an upright For tools just was too cumbersome to do or use. A Kirby may clean carpet wonderfully and be a well built machine, and have convertibility, the fact still remains, it is not as easy to convert between carpet and attachment cleaning and back again quickly.
For me often I’ll be making my way around the room cleaning the floors but suddenly see a cob web in a corner on the baseboard, or need to vacuum off crumbs from the couch and I can just stop doing the floor and pull the hose handle or floor attachment or power nozzle off and get that spot in seconds and convert right back and that pls what makes using the versatility of a canister so great.
I do like the new stick vacs too like the Shark rocket that have the motor and dirt canister by the handle and then a wand and power nozzle and or floor brush at the bottom, they make for very versatile vacuum cleaners that even convert to hand held vacuums so they can clean everything with ease WITHOUT having a canister dragging behind...so they seem to satisfy both upright and canister lovers with one main complaint...they don’t stand up on their own but some do fold to stand on their own, but they can easily lean against a wall or Piece of furniture. Some of these even come with mini power nozzles as an added option and a multitude of tools that can be used wither right on the motor head or at the end of the main wand which make for a very versatile product. I know people with small to medium sized homes and apartment dwellers who have converted to this type of vacuum due to limited storage space and not necessarily the need for a larger heavier duty vacuum cleaner.
Jon
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Hard floors to me are nice as far as knowing they are clean. Nowhere for dirt or stains to hide like on carpeting. If I had a house though, I'd have to at least have carpet in the bedrooms. I'd need something to use a brushroll on, so I could use my collection to the fullest.
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