Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be £19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

root wrote:

Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be £19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

OK advocado was a bit off, but the peach wasn't tacky - IMHO anyway...

--
Tim Watts

On 17 Aug, 17:59, Tim Watts wrote:
root wrote:


You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

OK advocado was a bit off, but the peach wasn't tacky - IMHO anyway...

--
Tim Watts

Nor Ivory really.

John (with Misty Peach and Ivory suites :-)

Tim Watts wrote:
root wrote:

Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be £19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

OK advocado was a bit off, but the peach wasn't tacky - IMHO anyway...


Am I the only one who LIKED avocado?

On Aug 17, 3:41*pm, root wrote:
Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be £19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

Is it workable to buy carpet online? (Assuming you give a monkeys
about what you get)


NT

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:39:52 -0700 (PDT), NT wrote:
On Aug 17, 3:41?pm, root wrote:
Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be ?19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

Is it workable to buy carpet online? (Assuming you give a monkeys
about what you get)

Some of the online suppliers I've seen will supply samples through the
post. Which is rather lucky as if you went by their descriptions you'd
be fogiven for thinking you were getting getting 3-inch deep pile
from virgin angoras for about 5-10 UKP per metre. What actually turns up
is about a quarter of an inch thick, polyester samples that you can see
through if you hold up to a light. AND BLOODY BROWN or shades thereof.

If you're just doing up something like student digs and want the maximum
square footage for the minimum price, it's probably OK, but to choose
to live with, yourself .... nah!

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:59:57 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

root wrote:

Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be £19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

http://www.brokenbog.com/



--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
http://www.sandrila.co.uk/

Paul Herber wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:59:57 +0100, Tim Watts
wrote:

root wrote:

Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be £19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

http://www.brokenbog.com/




Love the name! There's a site for everything these days... I just saw a VAX
8600 CPU module (that's a 18" square board IIRC) on ebay for 80-ish quid.
Probably 1/100th of the price DEC would have charged for a new one!
--
Tim Watts

Paul Herber wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:59:57 +0100, Tim wrote:

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

http://www.brokenbog.com/

You sod! You've reminded me of a student hovel I lived in which had a
pink bog.

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:03:25 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Paul Herber wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:59:57 +0100, Tim
wrote:

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

http://www.brokenbog.com/

You sod! You've reminded me of a student hovel I lived in which had a
pink bog.

Heh :-) I remember my grandparents had a pink bog, complete with pink
shag-pile bog seat cover.

In message , Jules Richardson
writes
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:03:25 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Paul Herber wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:59:57 +0100, Tim
wrote:

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

http://www.brokenbog.com/

You sod! You've reminded me of a student hovel I lived in which had a
pink bog.

Heh :-) I remember my grandparents had a pink bog, complete with pink
shag-pile bog seat cover.

Our first house we bought had a pink bathroom suite (much of the
ifttings etc. dated from the late '60's early '70's, the bath in
particular was pretty scruffy by then.

Best bit though was 'the edifice'. It was only a small bathroom in a 3
bed semi. Bath down one side, then across the other way was an airing
cupboard, with a vanity unit that ran floor to ceiling. This was all
finished in black marble pattern Formica.

The house had been empty almost a year when we bought it. And
(presumably as the house warmed up and humidity changed etc.) bit of
this would occasionally come unstuck and fall off over the next 6 months
or so.
--
Chris French

In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Am I the only one who LIKED avocado?

Yes.

--
*Why is the word abbreviation so long? *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Aug 17, 11:03*pm, Andy Burns wrote:
Paul Herber wrote:
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:59:57 +0100, Tim *wrote:

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

http://www.brokenbog.com/

You sod! You've reminded me of a student hovel I lived in which had a
pink bog.

We looked at a house once which had a fairly largish bathroom with a
brown suite, including his and hers shell-shaped sinks. In a hard-
water area, with inadequate cleaning, you can imagine that they
weren't a pretty sight.

In article
,
Mark Bluemel wrote:
We looked at a house once which had a fairly largish bathroom with a
brown suite, including his and hers shell-shaped sinks. In a hard-
water area, with inadequate cleaning, you can imagine that they
weren't a pretty sight.

That was the problem with any of the dark coloured suites.

--
*The most common name in the world is Mohammed *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Aug 17, 3:41*pm, root wrote:
Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be £19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.


A /very/ quick google gave http://www.carpetright.co.uk/carpets....html?limit=16,
in particular http://www.carpetright.co.uk/ocean-o...res-gel-1.html
doesn't look brown, red, blue /or/ grey.

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:29:50 -0700 (PDT), Martin Bonner wrote:
On Aug 17, 3:41?pm, root wrote:
Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be ?19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.


A /very/ quick google gave http://www.carpetright.co.uk/carpets....html?limit=16,
in particular http://www.carpetright.co.uk/ocean-o...res-gel-1.html
doesn't look brown, red, blue /or/ grey.

Kinda reinforces my point (and I had looked through the crapetright selection before
posting) that non-brown carpets ARE the exception. The vast majority of their wares
are firmly in the spectrum range from light to dark brown. That we can find exceptions
is nice, but as I posted, _most_ of their non-patterned ... which is a very sad
state of affairs. I stand by what I said

"root" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:29:50 -0700 (PDT), Martin Bonner wrote:
On Aug 17, 3:41?pm, root wrote:
Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be ?19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.


A /very/ quick google gave
http://www.carpetright.co.uk/carpets....html?limit=16,
in particular
http://www.carpetright.co.uk/ocean-o...res-gel-1.html
doesn't look brown, red, blue /or/ grey.

Kinda reinforces my point (and I had looked through the crapetright
selection before
posting) that non-brown carpets ARE the exception. The vast majority of
their wares
are firmly in the spectrum range from light to dark brown. That we can
find exceptions
is nice, but as I posted, _most_ of their non-patterned ... which is a
very sad
state of affairs. I stand by what I said

Yes, having changed my carpet earlier in the year I agree. I long for
something pretty being female and I just cant get it. Same goes for soft
furnishings too.

On 17/08/2011 19:01, Owain wrote:
On Aug 17, 6:35 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...
OK advocado was a bit off, but the peach wasn't tacky - IMHO anyway...
Am I the only one who LIKED avocado?

Showed the dirt less than Pampas a.k.a. Baby Diarrhoeia.

Owain

Ah! Pampas! I was trying to recall the name!

We had one!

--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 17/08/2011 22:01, Paul Herber wrote:
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:59:57 +0100, Tim wrote:

root wrote:

Planning to replace all the bedroom carpets. Will probably do the
laying myself. However ....

Looking at the online sources of carpets, whether it's the
cheap paper-thin tat being sold on eBay (that claims to be £19.99
psm in the shops) or high-cost stuff from online carpet stores or
from "proper" retailers with a web storefront - most of their
non-patterned offerings appear to only be available in various shades
of brown, from light cream through an assortment of made up names
through to "chocolate" or somesuch - with maybe a dark red, dark blue
or various shades of grey as alternatives.

Did I miss the memo that carpets can, henceforth, only be sold
in colours that makes the floor look as if it's a shade of mud?

OK, rant over. I feel better now.

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

http://www.brokenbog.com/



Bet the insurance companies love them. used to be that 'accidentally'
chipping a basin meant a claim for a new suite.

--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
...
On 17/08/2011 19:01, Owain wrote:
On Aug 17, 6:35 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...
OK advocado was a bit off, but the peach wasn't tacky - IMHO anyway...
Am I the only one who LIKED avocado?

Showed the dirt less than Pampas a.k.a. Baby Diarrhoeia.

Owain

Ah! Pampas! I was trying to recall the name!

We had one!

It was avacado in my house. Horrid thing. Dark left white marks all the
time. OH managed to change it for a nice new white one last year. You
cannot beat white in a bathroom. My aunt had a pink one. That was a nice
one.

sweetheart hotmail.com wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
...
On 17/08/2011 19:01, Owain wrote:
On Aug 17, 6:35 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...
OK advocado was a bit off, but the peach wasn't tacky - IMHO
anyway...
Am I the only one who LIKED avocado?

Showed the dirt less than Pampas a.k.a. Baby Diarrhoeia.

Owain

Ah! Pampas! I was trying to recall the name!

We had one!

It was avacado in my house. Horrid thing. Dark left white marks all
the time. OH managed to change it for a nice new white one last year.
You cannot beat white in a bathroom.


My aunt had a pink one. That
was a nice one.

I prefer pink and not brown

--
Adam

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Herber
saying something like:

You try buying a coloured bathroom suite now...

http://www.brokenbog.com/

By ****, they know how to charge. 174quid for an avocado ****ter.

On Aug 18, 4:07*pm, root wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:29:50 -0700 (PDT), Martin Bonner wrote:
On Aug 17, 3:41?pm, root wrote:
OK, rant over. I feel better now.

A /very/ quick google gavehttp://www.carpetright.co.uk/carpets/colour-green.html?limit=16,
in particularhttp://www.carpetright.co.uk/ocean-opal-plain-2-metres-gel-1.html
doesn't look brown, red, blue /or/ grey.

Kinda reinforces my point (and I had looked through the crapetright selection before
posting) that non-brown carpets ARE the exception. The vast majority of their wares
are firmly in the spectrum range from light to dark brown. That we can find exceptions
is nice, but as I posted, _most_ of their non-patterned ... which is a very sad
state of affairs. I stand by what I said

Oh I see now. The answer to "why are most carpets on offer brown" is
almost /certainly/ "that's what sells best". Shrug.

In article
,
Martin Bonner wrote:
The answer to "why are most carpets on offer brown" is
almost /certainly/ "that's what sells best". Shrug.

Or on Ebay, that's what's left over after the good stuff is sold.

--
*Welcome to **** Creek - sorry, we're out of paddles*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.