"raden" wrote in message
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In message , Mary Fisher
writes

"andrewpreece" wrote in message
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Hello,


I'm thrown back to looking at nylon carpets. I've heard they're a lot
better
than they
used to be, and was pleased to find that they don't all have that shiny
synthetic look.

Ah, the heady days of Cyril Lord! The bloomin' carpet we bought from him
never wore out!

Luxury, eh ?

You're not kidding. We paid (I think) £15 on the never for a 2 x 3yd
'square' over forty years ago and discarded it very many years later only
because the corners were curling and the backing separating. I reckon it
would still be going strong. It had a lot of hammer too, in our first house
we only had one room downstairs, here it was used in the
dining/play/workroom - with a lot of children. It was plain maroon and
showed not a scrap of wear- although the sheen did go and the pile flattened
under furniture legs. Abit of a bugger to vacuum though, stuff stuck to it-
but we never experienced any static.

Mary

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geoff