Do you know what’s hiding under your carpets?
One of the selling points of the house we just moved into was the fact that all new carpets had been fitted within the last year. Excellent, that’s a cost I won’t have for a few years. So many times you hear that people have had to make a major spend on flooring when moving house.
Most of the rooms downstairs are fitted with carpet, although the hallway has a wooden parquet floor with a small carpet rug matching the stair carpet. All the bedrooms had fitted carpet, the bathrooms all tiled, had vinyl interlock flooring that made it look like they were stone tiles, they matched perfectly with the tiling on the walls.
The only thing that I was going to have to do was re-decorate some of the rooms downstairs to our taste. It was only when we talked about our taste in the dinning room I noticed that it also had a wooden parquet floor, that’s two in the house. It had obviously not seen polish or cleaning for some years and we discussed covering it with a carpet.
I suggested to my wife that before we did that I could call on some advice from a local flooring company I knew, who offered flooring services as part of the business offering. I called Shorefloors Ltd in West Moors, Dorset and asked if they had someone who could pop round and advise me on my two wooden floors.
It wasn’t long before the chap from Shorefloors knocked at the door, and on entering remarked on the fact that the hallway was indeed a wooden parquet floor of some quality and that it would be expensive to buy a floor like that today. On looking at the floor in the dining room his remarks were much the same with some additional comments about skimming buffing and polishing to bring them back to their full…"Hang on a minute he said. This is a false wall here between the dining room and the lounge what flooring is in that room?"
Oh it’s fitted carpet I said. "May I just lift one corner, he asked?" We allowed him to do so and to our surprise and along with his exclamations of "I thought so" we discovered that the lounge was also a high quality wooden parquet floor covered by a fitted carpet. We are now in process of having the floors maintained to bring them back to their former glory.
I don’t know how long you have lived in your house or if you have ever lifted your fitted carpets. In order for you to answer the question `do you know what’s hiding under your carpets?...` It may be wise to do so…
Most of the rooms downstairs are fitted with carpet, although the hallway has a wooden parquet floor with a small carpet rug matching the stair carpet. All the bedrooms had fitted carpet, the bathrooms all tiled, had vinyl interlock flooring that made it look like they were stone tiles, they matched perfectly with the tiling on the walls.
The only thing that I was going to have to do was re-decorate some of the rooms downstairs to our taste. It was only when we talked about our taste in the dinning room I noticed that it also had a wooden parquet floor, that’s two in the house. It had obviously not seen polish or cleaning for some years and we discussed covering it with a carpet.
I suggested to my wife that before we did that I could call on some advice from a local flooring company I knew, who offered flooring services as part of the business offering. I called Shorefloors Ltd in West Moors, Dorset and asked if they had someone who could pop round and advise me on my two wooden floors.
It wasn’t long before the chap from Shorefloors knocked at the door, and on entering remarked on the fact that the hallway was indeed a wooden parquet floor of some quality and that it would be expensive to buy a floor like that today. On looking at the floor in the dining room his remarks were much the same with some additional comments about skimming buffing and polishing to bring them back to their full…"Hang on a minute he said. This is a false wall here between the dining room and the lounge what flooring is in that room?"
Oh it’s fitted carpet I said. "May I just lift one corner, he asked?" We allowed him to do so and to our surprise and along with his exclamations of "I thought so" we discovered that the lounge was also a high quality wooden parquet floor covered by a fitted carpet. We are now in process of having the floors maintained to bring them back to their former glory.
I don’t know how long you have lived in your house or if you have ever lifted your fitted carpets. In order for you to answer the question `do you know what’s hiding under your carpets?...` It may be wise to do so…
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