Comment on They all look like this

• rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  City apartment dweller here. My lease requires having carpet or rugs over a certain percentage of the floor area. It’s a basic necessity to avoid aggravating one’s neighbors on the floor below.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You could also just take off your wooden clogs and go barefoot.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh come on now, I don’t wear wooden clogs! They are entirely inappropriate footwear for the finish on my home bowling alley!

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    • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bare feet would make the rest of my suit of armor look silly.

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• paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  sound/echo dampening.

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  • Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One might wonder why this is not a problem pretty much everywhere that’s not North America.

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    • im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      WDYM sticks and paper are not appropriate building materials ?

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    • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean it is a problem, people just aren’t aware of it, or just live with it. It used to be much more common in Scandinavia but for some reason fell out of vogue. Everyone’s living room is now horribly echoey and I have no idea how they put up with it.

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      • Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A living room is only echoey if there’s nothing in it.

        Do Danish people have empty living rooms?

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are better ways of doing that

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    • brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like textured ceilings, but people seem to hate those too 🤷

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      • im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Again, impossible to clean.

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      • sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, if you just stipple the ceiling it looks ugly. Like stalactites in a cave. But it can be nice with a bit of intentionality and design effort

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Helps retain heat. The solution is a throw rug in the winter that you hose off in the spring though.

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• toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Carpet has a lot going for it. It’s relatively cheap, easy to install, forgiving of subflooring issues, pleasant to walk on, and dampens sound. That’s not to say it has its downsides - mostly keeping it clean and that it shows wear, but I can see why its popular.

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• Cheebus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  at one point we had carpet in our bathroom

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  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you guys really such a stranger to vacuuming? I want lavishly plush carpeting in my house. Especially the bedroom.

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    • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You must not have allergies/pets. Vacuuming does not get your carpets clean enough, and steam cleaning your carpets often enough is a big hassle and time consuming.

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      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have a cat and I don’t really see what the problem is, my carpets are fine. Yeah there is some cat fur when using the hoover, so what?

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    • im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Vacuuming doesn’t achieve much.

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    • general_kitten@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      carpets in themselves are not the problem. even vacuumming wont get rid of all the dirt and possibly stains. thats why you have separate carpets on the floor you can take out and actually wash without having to rip out the entire floor

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    • Cheebus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      no like bathroom

      where the toilet is, as in it used to be carpet when you get out of the bath tub, and also carpet when you take a piss/shit

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      • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh no. Yeah, a piss soaked carpet is no good.

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• HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Warmer and absorbs sound. Obviously not in the kitchen or bathroom but we have carpet everywhere else.

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