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On 27 Jul 2004 16:09:13 GMT, (Huge) wrote:

Grunff writes:
Huge wrote:

Can't be. We don't like it, either.

Ahem... Well, we do. We installed our first lot in our first house about
7 - 8 years ago, when it was still a pretty new thing. We loved having a
nice wipe-clean surface all over the floor, with no gaps in it. Back
then, Pergo was the only decent make around.

We've only done one room in laminate in this house, and that's the TV
room/library. We like it lots. It's nice. ;-)

Enjoy.

The ground floor of our house is parquet. We covered the cold,
uncomfortable, noisy, dusty stuff up with carpet. We like it lots. It's
nice. ;-)

Did you know that there are more bacteria in a well-trodden carpet
than outside in the street? I think carpets are disgustingly
unhygenic, especially if owners keep pets indoors. Yuk. We had dogs
when I was a lad and they would sometimes get itchy bums. Mum would
drag the spaniel outside, but only after it had succeeded in "wiping"
its bum across the carpet in a desperate attempt to relieve the
itching. Oh, I hear you say, why not wash the dogs' bottoms regularly?
Why not, indeed. Just the sort of thing I'd not like to be doing after
my breakfast, thanks all the same. Get shot of the dogs and get shot
of the carpet! It will be banned shortly, no doubt, once the
Government realises that domestic carpets are probably responsible for
MRSA.

MM