Ok so a cream carpet was a bad idea.
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It was in the dining room so no chance of muddy shoes and the children were 10/12 so no more highchairs. The room is dark and my new cream carpet lightened it up terrifically.
Then my niece spilled limeade all over it.
Even professional cleaning couldn't get it out ( it's the yellow food colouring apparently). So we claimed on the insurance and it was replaced last year.
The new carpet is cream with flecks in.
6 moths ago DS1 was carrying a plate of spag bol to the table when it slid off the plate on to the floor. A very nice carpet cleaning man got it all out for £25.
A few weeks later DS2 was clearing the table and dropped a dish of barbeque sauce.....
I was a bit embarrassed to ring the carpet cleaning man to clean the same bit of carpet again but he did a good job for another £25.
I wouldn't believe this if someone else told me but... last night we made pizzas and DS2 was carrying 2 plates to the table when one slid off the plate , upside down of course and in the same spot.
DH and I are argueing about whose turn it is to ring the carpet man up again.
We moved into our house, that has/had lovely cream carpets in the kitchen/diner thing, and in the sunroom. Lovely until 2 years on and DD has literally massacred them with paint, water (it leaves horrible stains even if you try to mop it up?)split drinks. Then of course us adults, spills and god knows what.
Then the cats throwing up, shredding dead birds mice and other local wildlife all over them..........ICK!!
Rent a Rog Doctor every 6 months for a quick spruce up, pretty cheap and dead easy to use. The carpets are'nt coming up as good as they once did, but still, the amount of gunk that comes out is worth it to reduce traffic areas etc.
in fact since I came on this thread I have began to obsess about how bad our carpet is... and the walls look grubby too....
in fairness, I have to say that
1. carpet is on stairs, one place where I think you really need a carpet, we have tried without, too noisy and cold
2. previous carpet was dark brown, hall and stairs too dark and gloomy.
My sister's cleaner saysshe uses bleach on her cream carpet to get out any stains. Says it works every time but i guess it depends on the actual cream of your carpet.
Definitely look into a carpet cleaner, it was the best thing I ever did. We also got a cream carpet to lighten a dark room and I still love how it looks 5 years on, but there were the occasional accidents. Having your own cleaner means you can get to it immediately and then there's much more chance of getting it all out. Mine is a Bissell Aroma Pro, not much heavier to use than a vacuum cleaner and leaves the carpet pretty dry too.
I am ridiculously smug about our cream carpet! DH's idea. I told him I was a CM and it was a stoopid idea, but no, he insisted.
It is, of course, totally knackered and I smuggly say, 'told you so!'
It will be replaced by wooden flooring in due course!
I would like to join the 'cream carpet induced depression' support group. I had a lovely natural one in a previous house and there werent even any children living in that one, but it was trashed inside six months by two adults and a dog (and some fake tan!). Very bad idea. There should be some sort of trading standards warning!
In new house had all the swirly 70's patterned carpets replaced with a chocolate brown carpet on stairs and whole of upstairs and it is blumin lovely.
Could be because if you go into a carpet shop you can choose any colour as long as it's cream.
Oh God - why do we all get cream carpets like a load of pathetic sheep? Every house in the country must have them and TBH its a ridiculous colour to have. I really dont know what possessed me to follow suit!
I thought I was safe using cream carpet in the dining room as it has no through traffic even though we use it at every meal.
I hate hard floors and have always avoided the wood/laminate route.
The only exception is the bathroom. Soon after having two small boys splashing around I gave up the carpet and put down vinyl. It looks like I'm stuck with it as my 13 year old make more mess than ever while preening in there.
I am def going to look into the carpet washing thingy, although I'd prefer one that comes with a man to push it around.
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