To Carpet or Not To Carpet Your Bath!

[daveamkrayoguy]

& those Fashiony '70's Colors lost their LUSTER too!

I like the rotating of rotating my bath mats, so maybe I'll just go with the idea...  But with the way the tub has the toilet bowing out in front of it, I think I'm inclined to give the bath mats a bath... Can't stand the thought of the water spilled from the tub, blended with the environment in the area surrounding the toilet... (I don't even keep the toilet brush and caddy in that area; moving the bowl cleaning equipment from the 1/2-bath to the full, back to the 1/2, when we clean the toilet, is my practice... And try to make the wife's as well!)

 

So I think as frequently as I will find myself washing them--with another garment, or most-likely two-by-two, (I'm that way with my washing machine: Full-Loads & Preventing unbalanced loads...) I think I will just go that route...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[norgeway]

Persomally//

I want carpet everywhere, My theory is a vacuum always pushes easier than a mop!

 

[iheartmaytag]

I dry off, and then wipe down the shower with the towel before I get out. 

 

Towels only used once, bath mat stays dry. 

 

I do have carpet in the kitchen, I didn't do it.  It was there when I bought the house.

 

 

 

 

[joeekaitis]

Carpet always begs the question:

"What if somebody misses the bowl?"

 

[askolover]

my parents have carpet in both their bathrooms and have since I was around 3 or 4.  They are small enough to just buy a 6x8 remnant and cut out for the toilet along with the 5ft section for the tub.  They just replace it every couple of years.  I used to have carpet in my bathroom here until as mentioned above, one of my cats (may she rest in peace) started doing the balancing act on the edge of the box...and missed the box.  Got a new box with the cover and solved that problem but got rid of the carpet.

 

[circlew]

The problem with carpet is that one miss, and it stinks! It might be easier with an elongated bowl toilet, but half asleep, it's still easy to have bad aim.

Maybe guys with "firehoses" don't have any problems with aiming it, but my cousin (nor me) doesn't fall into that catagory. Will have to say my uncle shouldn't have had any problem, though!

My aunt finally got rid of said carpet when the commode ran over and got it wet clear out to the hall.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

DaveAMKrayoGuy & the 'Maple' BEST STEP Comfort Floor

Well, here seems to be a way I have conquered my bathroom's flooring problem:

 

I kept seeing these interlocking-floor mats in red, yellow, blue and green going by--at least a couple sets, just to wonder where in my store that they were kept; it was in the Infants Department...

 

In which case, when I got to what could have been their "home", I only saw one package of these Wood-grained ones...  They fit together it sets of four, either long or wide...

 

(Included are bonus pictures of our non-working heat lamp and that expensive to burn candelabra...)

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[DADoES]

 
LED bulbs ... make the investment.

 

[henene4]

We have dedicated floor towels. They are placed on the floor directly before showering, you step out, towl dry standing on the towel, the move on. But our bathroom has a geated floor, so even if our rugs get damp, they dry pretty quick...

 

[jethowl]

"Noodle Mat"

We used to have the exact same issue, but found this great bath mat at the Hudson's Bay store about 6 months ago that solved it- my son calls it the "noodles mat". It's this odd microfibre shaggy type of mat, and it dries easily and doesn't smell. It's just a rectangle, but we find it is plenty big to stand on when just out of the tub. Works for us!
Here's the website link for it: http://www.thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/thebay/micro-noodle-bath-rug-0112-f15196dh111--24

 

[warmsecondrinse]

Jethowl:

Unfortunately, that link only led me to the main eBay page. Could you tell us the name as used in the listing?

Thanks,

Jim

 

[DADoES]

 
This may be it ...

Micro Noodle Bath Rug | Hudson's Bay

 

[jethowl]

Oh, sorry about the dead link! Whoops.
Yes, DADoES found it, that's the one!