I commiserate, I really do.
This place is ENTIRELY carpeted, too, save for the kitchen. THAT was carpeted when we bought it (Who the heck has a carpeted kitchen? I'm MESSY when I cook!LOL!) I made Daddy install Pergo in there ASAP.
Even the BATHROOMS are carpeted.
Working on him for tiles or laminate because I just do not see how you can keep a bathroom floor clean with kids and animals and men running around in and out there....
We moved into a place with carpeted bathrooms once. The first thing we did was tear out the carpet to install vinyl. It worked fine in the downstairs bathroom, but when we got upstairs, we found that, since the carpet was never dry, the subflooring had rotted out, and the whole bathroom was about to fall into the kitchen! We had to get two new layers of subflooring, and then the vinyl. At least (we said, as the costs went up and up) it was OUR subflooring!
I can't think of anything stupider than putting carpeting near a bathtub/shower and toilet. Haven't these people ever seen boys use the pot?
Kids,
Animals,
Men...
Uh-hunh, I see how we stack up in your estimation.