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Please justify your outrageous opinion
I've never lived in a flat/house with carpet floors. Always tiles, wood floors, pvc, vinyl, linoleum or wood laminate. I don't think I've ever visited a home with carpet flooring. The only places I know it from is hotels and videos of really old run down ruins that need to be ripped apart and renovated from the base.
It gives me the ick, I feel like they're always dirty and dusty. Normally I'm not squeamish, but I just don't feel comfortable on carpet flooring. I've grown up washing my floors wet or swiping. It just doesn't fit into my head. However, laying a spatially limited carpet on a hard floor is beautiful.
There. I tried.
Fair reasoning! I would say you've missed out though, a nice (i.e. not horrible, old, and dirty) carpet is warm, cosy, and comfortable to sit on.
I agree with him only because I've seen what lives in and beneath carpet. Even fastidious folks can't truly clean it well enough, and they definitely can't keep the moisture from collecting beneath it.
Moisture beneath seems like something that would only happen if your house is damp anyway, right?
Or live in an area with decent humidity. I've helped renovate a few houses of friends, slobs and clean freaks, and they all had an incredible amount of growth beneath the padding material. The slob obviously had it worse, and you could tell where they had spilled liquids like soda.
Sweeping the floor is cheaper and can be done at any hour, walking on old carpet especially kicks up dust and even after vacuuming it feels kind of gross (probably because I know it hasn't been washed). Non-carpet floors are also easier to actually clean (or just wipe up spills etc), at least where I am where the air isn't super-dry.
I'm with them, a throw rug would be fine so long as you can still pick it up to clean it elsewhere. Though I'd still rather just use a broom.
Also, cold floors doesn't bother me but wearing socks/slippers instead is a nice option.
carpet holds on to pollen and pet dander more than hardwood or tile. This would be my personal reasoning.