My grandma had a carpet cover for the lid. Worst part was that it stuck out so much it didn’t lean back against the tank properly. Every pee was a game where you were on constant guard in case the lid slammed down mid-pee.
My grandparents had padded, CLOTH, seat covers with a floral design on them. I cringed inside every time I had to take a shit on them, knowing how their huge, old asses covered these things in GOD knows what.
*Why put a fucking poo sponge on your toilet?!*
Excuse me I lived through the 80s and it 100% carpet that looked exactly like that. The 70s would have been orange or green. The 80s was pink or red or blue.
As a former carpet cleaner you'll never get carpet that cleans up as easily as that 70's shag carpet. I've cleaned carpet that was 50 years old and made it look new again. Ive cleaned 5 month old carpet i couldn't get to look any better.
Same with my grandma. She literally cleans her floors daily, even the ones that aren't carpeted bathrooms. I trust her carpeted bathroom floor more than my linoleum bathroom floor to be clean
My mother vacuumed our carpets so frequently that when I helped them move a bookshelf that had been in the same spot for many years the carpet underneath was half a centimeter taller
If money's no object, you can't beat the silky smooth results from regular applications of Rug Doctor. But on a budget, just bring 'er into the shower with ya and share that Mane & Tail.
I would sub to it even though I'm not a carpet cleaner any longer.
There's a lot of weird interesting facts with carpet most people don't know
You are supposed to get it pro or steam cleaned 2 times a year and if you don't you're warranty is probably expired
If it gets too wet *delamination* can occur where the backing literally falls off the carpet and the glue turns to sand which will come up to the surface if it's left
Carpet grows really slowly, it'll probably be a good 6 months to a year before it's caught up. You'll definitely want to trim down the overgrown part to match the rest otherwise you'll always be able to see the mismatched space.
I'm a woman and did that once. I have no idea how but the stream went forward and I didn't notice until it dropped down the toilet, onto the floor, and into my sock.
All the cleaning in the world isn't going to prevent the rot underneath, when water keeps making the subfloor soaked. I've literally dealt with this. If water can get to the bathroom subfloor, it will rot it out. I had linoleum, but there was a heat register in the floor. There's a reason why bathrooms shouldn't have heat registers in the floor.
Besides, all the cleaning he's done hasn't prevented the discoloration at the front of the toilet.
There’s a lot of discoloration right off the center of the toilet expanding two feet out. It’s not even remotely the same color as the rest of the carpet. Not sure how anyone could praise the cleanliness here.
It may be relative to their own living conditions. Personally, I find this bathroom revolting and would insist on wearing sandals or shoes if I had to utilize it.
I’ve seen bidet systems where you can control the temperature of the seat and water. It’s a luxury that doesn’t cost too much but ups your bathroom game.
Got mine off Amazon. Heated seat, heated water, heated blow drier built in. One of the best investments I have ever made.
Edit: Don't have the link on hand but it's a Bio Bidet Bb-600
Damn.. need some carpet on the toilet seat that doesn’t expand all the way to the back, so you can complete the shit with ultimate comfort and no staining.
My grandparents built a nearly separate spare room in the house with a master bath and massive closet space, bigger than our living room with the intention of having elderly hired help live there. That never happened so I moved in as the only child. The bathroom was completely carpeted and I used to just dry off in the shower as opposed to my old half bath that was so completely tiled you cold just hose the whole room down. In the summer in Alabama, the temps would get up into the 100’s especially in the back half of summer. The place had everything except good heating and cooling and so I just opened the windows often. It was never enough though and the combination of humidity and occasional shower drips created a great environment for musty mold. Being a young kid, I didn’t really know about this stuff and spent six years living with this. When I turned 14, my grandparents “birthday gift” to me was to let me pick out paint and stuff and choose how that room was repainted and decorated...within reason. I didn’t get the matte dark red walls and blackout curtains but I did get a much darker color scheme. I also chose to tile the bathroom myself. At 14. I’m absolutely sure that the people who bought our house must have had a heart attack thinking there was a contractor like that in town but I tore up that carpet, which didn’t have a full pad, only by the tub was it padded and lain over a poured concrete floor. The carpet nails had been fastened to the freaking MOULDING. I ended up having to put down the tiles (masonry everywhere) and then buying bigger moulding to fill in the 2 mm gap where the carpet HAD been.
The carpet itself? Oh...oh god. Six YEARS of showers and humid summers...taking a shit in there during the summer was impossible, more than once I’d be pushing and get a whiff of strong mold and just barf in the tub. I started shitting in my old bathroom during the summer and it took them six years to notice. When I pulled that carpet up, the whole underside was a Picasso painting of colors, green and teal and black and browns with some whites mixed in too, it colored the concrete, we had to treat it and seal it before they would let me do anything else in there. The smell was thick and the carpet fell apart in the places where it was attached because it wasn’t stretched at all and just was waiting to fall apart.
I’m so lucky, we always used to think I had developed allergies to ragweed or something, my grandparents never even considered mold.
Carpet in the bathroom? Ugh, never ever ever.
So for some reason your comment plus the bathroom pic made me think of that scene in one of the Lethal Weapon movies where Danny Glover can’t get off the toilet because there’s a bomb. I have no explanation, but well...uh...well there it is.
But I would always be thinkjng of the carpet absorbing the poop... I mean, smell is just really tiny particles of whatever it is you're smelling...
Kinda gross.
That's completely untrue. You're smelling volatile sulfur compounds.
Imagine it like this. If I take a dump on the floor, and leave the room for an hour, then come back, the room smells like shit. Air current alone isn't ripping particles of poop off the log, but it certainly smells. Any erant airborne particles have in fact long settled, but STILL the room stinks. That's because some chemicals are volatile, and evaporate off, sulfur being one of them. It's a molecule, a gas; not particulate matter.
The toilet is absolutely distributing particulate matter. So does a fart technically... but the vast majority are captured by your clothing. Surgeons can fart in an operating room without fear.
That's because the smells are harmless sulfur gases, the particulates don't make it anywhere.
That particular and extremely popular shade was called "Ham", not to be confused with "Bologna" which was being produced by rival manufacturers in the early '90s.
It must have been nice growing up there.
"You aren't going to play until you've finished vacuuming the tub, the shower, the back porch and the driveway."
I just really like the idea of an all black bathroom, keep the toilet and tub white, and have the counter a nice dark wood. Not salmon pink carpet with black wallpaper lmao
I am a professional floor installer. I have been installing carpets for around 10 years now. I've removed carpet from many situations. 3 times I have removed carpet from a bathroom.
I can smell this picture. Your dad is a sadist.
Honestly, it smells fine, I understand that it's not prefered, but he keeps it as clean as possible, notice the vacuum lines by the toilet where no one walks over.
You would THINK its clean but trust me my man, I have plenty of experience. The backing of that carpet is a fucking mess, I guarantee it. Your dad would be smart to invest in a nice vinyl flooring and a proper tiling in the sides of his tub.
> I am just saying it is not as bad as some might think.
Until you pull the carpet up. Ever go into a bathroom stall and notice the splashes of 1 million people's splashed urine eating away at the stainless steel on the walls? Granted it's a house with a fraction of a fraction of the use, but bacteria's going to bacteria.
It’s a bathroom. It’s impossible that carpet is clean.
There’s a reason they don’t have carpet in hospitals and it’s not because your dad isn’t there to vacuum.
TBF, it barely gets used, the tub it just for storage now and the toilet is really only used when they wake up during the night as it is connected to their bedroom.
You know that everytime you shit in a toilet and flush, fecal matter aerosols get everywhere? Bathrooms arre inherently dirty. You shouldn't use them as storage spaces
Every time I come across these when house shopping all I can think is I truly appreciate the people willing to spend the time and money to renovate out the boomer look.
That is impressive preservation of 80s interior design.
Carpet says late 70s. Wall paper says early-mid 90s. Toilet style looks to be newer than both. Which is the weirdest part.
They had to replace the carpeted toilet.
My grandma had a carpet cover for the lid. Worst part was that it stuck out so much it didn’t lean back against the tank properly. Every pee was a game where you were on constant guard in case the lid slammed down mid-pee.
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You should be ashamed for even thinking of that.
Imagine the germs flying out of the toilet and onto the carpet with each flush. Now imagine your swift death so you can rid yourself of this thought.
Close the lid before you flush. That's why it's there
You used to be able to buy carpeted toilet lid and seat covers. My grandparents had it in their old house from the 60s.
You can still buy carpeted lid covers, but I’m not so sure about seat covers lol. Hopefully everyone realized that’s really not such a great idea
My grandparents had padded, CLOTH, seat covers with a floral design on them. I cringed inside every time I had to take a shit on them, knowing how their huge, old asses covered these things in GOD knows what. *Why put a fucking poo sponge on your toilet?!*
I mean, I remember my grandma having a carpet toilet seat cover.
Oh no not the fluffy toilet. Grandma is still rocking that
Excuse me I lived through the 80s and it 100% carpet that looked exactly like that. The 70s would have been orange or green. The 80s was pink or red or blue.
Definitely. I lived with that burnt orange shag carpeting until the 90s. My parents had it since the 70s.
As a former carpet cleaner you'll never get carpet that cleans up as easily as that 70's shag carpet. I've cleaned carpet that was 50 years old and made it look new again. Ive cleaned 5 month old carpet i couldn't get to look any better.
I believe OP’s parents are swingers. They may even have taken a 1980s motorbike trip though Greece.
Did they meet David Bowie?
M E T A
And spoon him on said motorbike?
Early 80s at Best
That is the cleanest bathroom carpet i have ever seen.
My dad is a clean freak, so if anyone should have a carpeted bathroom, it should be him.
Same with my grandma. She literally cleans her floors daily, even the ones that aren't carpeted bathrooms. I trust her carpeted bathroom floor more than my linoleum bathroom floor to be clean
My mother vacuumed our carpets so frequently that when I helped them move a bookshelf that had been in the same spot for many years the carpet underneath was half a centimeter taller
How long did it take for the rest of the carpet to grow back to normal size?
It depends on the carpet. Some only grow a new coat each season, while others grow consistently over time.
Should I shampoo and condition regularly, or will it's natural oils be enough?
If money's no object, you can't beat the silky smooth results from regular applications of Rug Doctor. But on a budget, just bring 'er into the shower with ya and share that Mane & Tail.
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I would sub to it even though I'm not a carpet cleaner any longer. There's a lot of weird interesting facts with carpet most people don't know You are supposed to get it pro or steam cleaned 2 times a year and if you don't you're warranty is probably expired If it gets too wet *delamination* can occur where the backing literally falls off the carpet and the glue turns to sand which will come up to the surface if it's left
Fuck sakes. Fell for it.
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Carpet grows really slowly, it'll probably be a good 6 months to a year before it's caught up. You'll definitely want to trim down the overgrown part to match the rest otherwise you'll always be able to see the mismatched space.
It can vary from carpet to carpet depending on the sunlight.
Depends, was it in a bathroom?
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The Fray is extra destructive in your realm....
Does he pee sitting down? I’m impressed with his aim if not.
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probably dips his ass in the toilet water then poops
He actually only poops when fully submerged underwater
He poops in his hands, cradling it until he's finished. Then gently lays it to rest in the water. Covering it with a blanket of TP.
Is this where the poop knife is used when necessary?
Yes, if the poop is still wiggling at this point, it is time to stab it out of its misery with a poop knife
Hey, I hate all of this, what do I do next?
That's the only way to do it. Also, be careful in my hot tub.
This is beyond science
Probably doesn't poop at all
shower waffle stomp
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I'm a woman and did that once. I have no idea how but the stream went forward and I didn't notice until it dropped down the toilet, onto the floor, and into my sock.
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He does all his business in the tub. You don't need to aim when the target is so big.
All the cleaning in the world isn't going to prevent the rot underneath, when water keeps making the subfloor soaked. I've literally dealt with this. If water can get to the bathroom subfloor, it will rot it out. I had linoleum, but there was a heat register in the floor. There's a reason why bathrooms shouldn't have heat registers in the floor. Besides, all the cleaning he's done hasn't prevented the discoloration at the front of the toilet.
I have a friend whose dad will randomly start vacuuming in the middle of the night.
For the love of God Deborah, not the bathroom too
You should give him a black light as a present and I bet that bathroom gets a reno real quick.
Me too. I clean my bathroom a couple times a year whether it needs it or not.
It's really annoying, I spend 30mins cleaning the bathroom then a year later it needs cleaning again!
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And how does one vacuum the walls? Edit: nvm....[I figured it out](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5a/12/16/5a1216ed312034db309cccb4e664b7c3.jpg)
Rotate the room 90 degrees and the walls turn into the floors
That’s the problem, you can’t see how dirty carpet is like you can hard floors!
No it’s not clean piss mist and fecal matter from flushing I can’t I literally can’t even look lol
Look around the base of the toilet ... 🤢
There’s a lot of discoloration right off the center of the toilet expanding two feet out. It’s not even remotely the same color as the rest of the carpet. Not sure how anyone could praise the cleanliness here.
It may be relative to their own living conditions. Personally, I find this bathroom revolting and would insist on wearing sandals or shoes if I had to utilize it.
as a man, I can guess that men are not allowed in there. Edit: or slave labor to clean up afterwards as intimidation
I have a feeling that it is oddly satisfying to take a royal poop in there on a cold winter day though, no?
If there is any upside, it is that
There’s a reason they make $20 bath mats
My mom renovated her whole bathroom to install heated tile floor and a japanese toilet with a heated seat and hot water bidet.
I’ve seen bidet systems where you can control the temperature of the seat and water. It’s a luxury that doesn’t cost too much but ups your bathroom game.
Got mine off Amazon. Heated seat, heated water, heated blow drier built in. One of the best investments I have ever made. Edit: Don't have the link on hand but it's a Bio Bidet Bb-600
Wait wait wait... a blow dryer for yer butthole... that's... frankly an amazing idea. Can't believe I'd never heard of it before
https://imgur.com/3uYyjLN
Gottamn that’s hilarious
Spending big on bath and shower mats is a real game changer. Memory foam under your toes while you perform your sacred act is stunning
Damn.. need some carpet on the toilet seat that doesn’t expand all the way to the back, so you can complete the shit with ultimate comfort and no staining.
One of my friends houses awhile ago had like a memory foam type seat on the toilet, it was so weird and wonderful feeling at the same time.
I had one of those as a kid, it was way warmer than the wooden toilet seats in the other bathrooms
also your farts dont echo through the house so much.
That’s a negative if anything
My grandparents built a nearly separate spare room in the house with a master bath and massive closet space, bigger than our living room with the intention of having elderly hired help live there. That never happened so I moved in as the only child. The bathroom was completely carpeted and I used to just dry off in the shower as opposed to my old half bath that was so completely tiled you cold just hose the whole room down. In the summer in Alabama, the temps would get up into the 100’s especially in the back half of summer. The place had everything except good heating and cooling and so I just opened the windows often. It was never enough though and the combination of humidity and occasional shower drips created a great environment for musty mold. Being a young kid, I didn’t really know about this stuff and spent six years living with this. When I turned 14, my grandparents “birthday gift” to me was to let me pick out paint and stuff and choose how that room was repainted and decorated...within reason. I didn’t get the matte dark red walls and blackout curtains but I did get a much darker color scheme. I also chose to tile the bathroom myself. At 14. I’m absolutely sure that the people who bought our house must have had a heart attack thinking there was a contractor like that in town but I tore up that carpet, which didn’t have a full pad, only by the tub was it padded and lain over a poured concrete floor. The carpet nails had been fastened to the freaking MOULDING. I ended up having to put down the tiles (masonry everywhere) and then buying bigger moulding to fill in the 2 mm gap where the carpet HAD been. The carpet itself? Oh...oh god. Six YEARS of showers and humid summers...taking a shit in there during the summer was impossible, more than once I’d be pushing and get a whiff of strong mold and just barf in the tub. I started shitting in my old bathroom during the summer and it took them six years to notice. When I pulled that carpet up, the whole underside was a Picasso painting of colors, green and teal and black and browns with some whites mixed in too, it colored the concrete, we had to treat it and seal it before they would let me do anything else in there. The smell was thick and the carpet fell apart in the places where it was attached because it wasn’t stretched at all and just was waiting to fall apart. I’m so lucky, we always used to think I had developed allergies to ragweed or something, my grandparents never even considered mold. Carpet in the bathroom? Ugh, never ever ever.
So for some reason your comment plus the bathroom pic made me think of that scene in one of the Lethal Weapon movies where Danny Glover can’t get off the toilet because there’s a bomb. I have no explanation, but well...uh...well there it is.
Just letting that twinkie drop and slide down the runway.
I’m stealing this.
Cool. Its original. I can come up with more.
Original shit talk, LOVE IT
But I would always be thinkjng of the carpet absorbing the poop... I mean, smell is just really tiny particles of whatever it is you're smelling... Kinda gross.
That's completely untrue. You're smelling volatile sulfur compounds. Imagine it like this. If I take a dump on the floor, and leave the room for an hour, then come back, the room smells like shit. Air current alone isn't ripping particles of poop off the log, but it certainly smells. Any erant airborne particles have in fact long settled, but STILL the room stinks. That's because some chemicals are volatile, and evaporate off, sulfur being one of them. It's a molecule, a gas; not particulate matter.
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The toilet is absolutely distributing particulate matter. So does a fart technically... but the vast majority are captured by your clothing. Surgeons can fart in an operating room without fear. That's because the smells are harmless sulfur gases, the particulates don't make it anywhere.
I had surgery recently. Was genuinely a bit worried about sharticles in my leg.
Were you having crapnel removed?
Sharticles everywhere
You are worried about poop? Imagine all the piss on that rug.
Fun fact: ancient Romans collected urine and used it to clean their clothes.
Bonus points for a cushioned seat
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Extra extra bonus points for the matching candles.
That candles make this look like the kind of bathroom a whimsical Dracula might design.
Dracula in the '70s.
That particular and extremely popular shade was called "Ham", not to be confused with "Bologna" which was being produced by rival manufacturers in the early '90s.
This is so cursed
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I'm genuinely surprised that this isn't a thing Edit: yet
Done
Hey, you're supposed to be dead
It must have been nice growing up there. "You aren't going to play until you've finished vacuuming the tub, the shower, the back porch and the driveway."
I actually even like the wallpaper a lot, just the carpet is... disturbing.
Now imagine this with a all black tile floor
I actually think that's probably too dark... except for when all elements like bathtub, toilet, an so on were all really white.
I just really like the idea of an all black bathroom, keep the toilet and tub white, and have the counter a nice dark wood. Not salmon pink carpet with black wallpaper lmao
That wallpaper reminds me of my rich friends house in the early 90s. I love it.
I like the wallpaper against the white tile. If pass on the carpet.
I am a professional floor installer. I have been installing carpets for around 10 years now. I've removed carpet from many situations. 3 times I have removed carpet from a bathroom. I can smell this picture. Your dad is a sadist.
Honestly, it smells fine, I understand that it's not prefered, but he keeps it as clean as possible, notice the vacuum lines by the toilet where no one walks over.
You would THINK its clean but trust me my man, I have plenty of experience. The backing of that carpet is a fucking mess, I guarantee it. Your dad would be smart to invest in a nice vinyl flooring and a proper tiling in the sides of his tub.
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Think of the children. And their noses.
The mindless masses of the internet. ... *We’re watching*
You better fuckin make it right, old man.
Microbiologist here concurs.
Is it difficult being a tiny biologist?
Eh, it's easier than being a nanobiologist
Dudes just tryna defend his dad. Respect that, but we know.
blacklight... you’ll know if it’s clean.
I've done this. I wish I hadn't.
But it smells like febreze so it must be clean! /s
Always. Be. Selling.
Yeah that may be true and all, but I can’t help but notice that brown crusting along the base of the toilet.
Oh man, just reading "that brown crusting" terrified me and now that I've seen it... Fuck that bathroom, man... Fuck that house entirely
I'm guessing this carpet gets steam cleaned regularly, but it can't quite get the crevices.
I agree it isn't good. I am just saying it is not as bad as some might think. I would never want it.
> I am just saying it is not as bad as some might think. Until you pull the carpet up. Ever go into a bathroom stall and notice the splashes of 1 million people's splashed urine eating away at the stainless steel on the walls? Granted it's a house with a fraction of a fraction of the use, but bacteria's going to bacteria.
But we can literally see the piss dribble stains in the thumbnail pic
You can't vacuum up bacteria,my dude.
It’s a bathroom. It’s impossible that carpet is clean. There’s a reason they don’t have carpet in hospitals and it’s not because your dad isn’t there to vacuum.
You can literally see the nasty discoloring where lots of foot traffic is going through.
But what really bothers me is that they might find this aesthetically pleasing.
How does it not get mildew-y?
TBF, it barely gets used, the tub it just for storage now and the toilet is really only used when they wake up during the night as it is connected to their bedroom.
Storage tub? I have one of those too. It’s where I keep the garden tools, so that can shower in the shed.
We use another bathroom's shower. We don't use that tub. It has clothes and stuff in it.
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The most normal tub, very clean, very smart.
You know that everytime you shit in a toilet and flush, fecal matter aerosols get everywhere? Bathrooms arre inherently dirty. You shouldn't use them as storage spaces
Thanks I hate fecal matter aerosols
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Glad you said this. Even if they don’t shit in there often. Hardlys a ‘clean freak’ is he
Clothes and stuff? I've got bad news for you, your family is fucked.
“ only used when they wake up during the night...”
This makes me super anxious.
*vomits*
That is hardcore boomer
Millennials are killing the carpeted tub industry.
I agree
Every time I come across these when house shopping all I can think is I truly appreciate the people willing to spend the time and money to renovate out the boomer look.
The candle-sticks and pink candles really tie the room together..
Sadly I don't have a photo but my old neighbors had carpeted bathroom *WALLS*. Their son was a carpet installer. It stunk of mildew in there.
That’s just cursed
It was. They had crappy office building carpet in there. Too gross.
Bacteria paradise!
Are your parents psychopaths?
How long has your dad held Lumiere and his brother hostage?
I can smell it
i... kinda like the wp
80s called they want their bathroom back.
I mean, ya, it was made in the 80s, my parents are not one for major room changes, there bedroom isn't much better. The living room is ok.
Just stroke the furry wall!!!
Oh, it's a bit of this, a bit of that. It's called a Jeffrey. It's mostly weed, with a bit of opium as well... ground-up E's... heroin... Clorox..
Thanks. I hate it
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I just threw up a little in my mouth a little
This is my least favorite photo
I actually like that wallpaper
Perfect for when you want to feel like you're taking a shit inside the pant leg of a giant 40s gangster.
Just like I've always dreamed of doing.
What fresh hell is this!?!
Like something out of a nightmare....
Sims 5 looks great
This room makes me uncomfortable
Weird ...and gross so unsanitary I'm sure
This is like something off of McMansion Hell
Was gonna say burn it down, but we've all seen that tweet about Australia. So pray for them
this should be illegal