Right? It should be noted it’s also a big tradition in most Asian households. Even if that practice only refers to spirits not entering the house, it’s still good to consider
@@elleni-41 Well, good news! I’m in town, and I’d love to stop by and introduce myself-in your living room, wearing my finest mud-caked boots, and, of course, bringing along my black lab who’s more interested in your couch than my commands. Hope your carpet enjoys surprises!
This is what you should do. 1. No shoes in the house. 2. Leave carpets for bedrooms only 3. Vacuum carpets weekly 4. Mop or vacuum tiles or floorboards as much as possible or as soon as you notuce dust. Carpets act like a filter but hard floors don't and so kicked up dust from hard floors linger in the air and enter your lungs. 5. Steam clean carpets, mats, and area rugs once every 6-12 months. 6. Try and wipe your pets feet and try to keep them clean before letting them in.
Did you watch the video? It says to be safe, steam clean carpets every month! I’m happy to see carpet is just beginning to go out of style because it is not healthy. Keeping healthy carpets is very expensive and time consuming. The really sad part is how carpeting became popular in shops, doctors offices, and churches 😢
@@MelanieH1422, no steam cleaning your carpets monthly would destroy them. Just because a video says something doesn't make it right. I manage buildings so I think I know how to deal with carpets.
This is a no brainer. OBVIOUSLY carpets can make people sick. We used to have carpet throughout most of the house but thankfully got rid of ALL of it. 😊👏🏻 I'm one of those people who absolutely HATES carpets and would absolutely, flat-out refuse to live on it again. Just nope! 🙅♀️ Give me hardwood flooring or linoleum any day over carpet.
My whole house is linoleum, and i have a small area rug in the living room. Much better to deal with a few small rugs than a whole house of carpet! @randomrazr
As a former carpet cleaner this is the best answer! You have to hold the water in a sterile holding tank otherwise this experiment is useless. You could pour clean water into a holding tank and come up with positive test. Also the carpet cleaners wand and hoses have to be new and never used. 🤕Not to say they don't have bacteria in their carpet but the test is totally flawed.
This dude. I do it for a living and can say no one empties, rinses, scrubs and bleaches every time. Maybe once every 3 to 6 months depending. I often empty the tank and occasionally blast water through it to rinse. That's it. Lol we clean up EVERYTHING with it.
I once had a carpet that caused some allergic reactions to my skin for months. Visited several doctors with no cure until one GP told me to get rid of my carpet. Since then, the allergy has gone and I have never suffered it again for the past 16 years.
Tips from vacuum vet here. Keep your shoes outside. Shampoo 2 to 4 times a year. More if you have pets. Vacuum 2 times a week. Have a spot cleaner to remove stains before they set. Use a vacuum with a hepa sealed filter system.
Leaving shoes outside allows germ ridden roaches & other bugs and insects to crawl inside of them! If you don't have a mud room, just place an adequate size shoe rack by the door to hold the shoes! Keep the area where you step inside with your shoes mopped or vacuumed!
Growing up I was always raised to never walk barefoot in a hotel room. When I was younger i questioned it and thought it was silly. But now I’m older and completely understand why
Still nasty knowing there’s a bunch of trapped dirt and bacteria within the carpet though. Sure I can live a long life if I never showered but it’s still gross
@@Warp2090 regular vacuums do nothing to throughly disinfect a floor though 🤦♂️. All they do is pick up dirt. They do nothing to disinfect bacteria tracked from the bathroom or especially public places. You can mitigate this issue by leaving shoes at the door but its difficult for families with lots of kids
@@Impishsheep better as long as it’s a disinfect shampoo and not regular shampoo plus it’s a lot of work to be shampooing and extracting the carpet even once of a month let alone weekly or biweekly. You can probably disinfect and mop a hard wood floor in a single room in 5 min or less whereas if it were carpet it would probably take 30min to an hour to properly do it plus the way longer drying time
You could probably do that same test on any hardwood or laminate floor and find similar kinds of results. The big thing is they don't say in what quantity etc. Yes carpets will hold more, but it feels like there might be a bit of fear mongering. After all I bet if they reran the steam cleaner within even half an hour of cleaning it they would find similar results.
RIGHT! and $300 a month. Every time we get them to do our floor "OH you need pet enzymes to break down pet urine, pet odor, and anything pet related EXTRA $175"
It’s funny that they show a cheap Bissell vacuum while saying ” get a high quality, hepa vacuum.” A quality vacuum is not what you can buy at your local department store, go to a vacuum store! Most vacuum stores carry these three main quality brands: Miele, Sebo, and Riccar!
You need a high airflow vacuum like a Sanitaire or Kirby, maybe a old school Hoover. Here’s one misconception people have about vacuum cleaners, suction doesn’t pick up the dirt, airflow and agitation does. Suction does pick up dirt to a degree but more so maintains airflow. Suction aka vacuum is a negative pressure, not a movement. You got to move the air in order to pick up the dirt.
@@seana806 I agree with the Kirby or Sanitaire, but the average audience of Inside Edition would not know what to do with either of these. They will probably end up picking something to break the fan, then it will be the case that “Kirby makes a bad vacuum .” The typical is ignorant to the fact that you must watch what you pick up, so the bypass system is much safer. I have access to both direct air and bypass, I would choose direct air if given a choice.
This is why I don’t understand how people can comfortably have so much carpet and have dogs at the same time. Who wants to put up with maintenance of carpets. Carpet can get so dingy so quickly. You shoes, and sweaty feet.
@@RealHomeRecording ppl who say things like that probably don’t wash their hands after wiping their a$$ then proceed to touch food. That’s how we get ecoli outbreaks 😖
It’s not fair to say that about the carpet of course it’s going to have all that stuff on it. Think about what you do with your carpet you walk on it where do your shoes go everywhere? as long as you don’t eat the carpet, you’re OK. Think about it this way how many decades have Americans had carpet in their homes? Now how often do you see people getting sick from carpet exactly now you know it’s not that big of a deal.
Buy your own new steam cleaner and clean it. Don’t use a company that uses the same machines on everyone’s home. And definitely don’t rent a cleaner like the carpet doctor.
Ruggable is a fantastic solution if you really want to have something over a portion of your non-carpeted floors. You just pick that thing up off the pad, throw it into the washing machine and it’s done.
I feel like I'm the only one who grew up with a mom who shampooed the carpet. There is no way this many people have never known to shampoo their carpet.
I am American and i never wear shoes inside my home, not even socks. It is healthier for the foot’s musculature and bone health as well, and lessens the likelihood of developing foot fungus. i only wear shoes if I am on public property
remember the American movies and TV shows where teens where their shoes on bed? IDK if that reflects in real life. imaging smearing chewed gum or dog poo a bed
I came back from a trip to Japan and the shoe thing is real. The floors in that house stayed clean and when we cleaned them it really glowed. I do the same now in the States.
People all over the world have said this to people in commonwealth countries(the places most likely to have this kind of carpet on their floors and walk with outdoor shoes in side) for decades now. It's not to be mean, and your floors will get dirty even if you have no fuzzy carpet don't walk with shoes on inside, but it gets soooo much worse! :)
If those of use who have tile floors have to mop/sweep/vacuum everyday (because you see/feel every crumb), I can imagine the same stuff is on our carpeted floors.
When I first came to US I was shocked that homes were built with carpet. Maybe its cheaper but then some people choose to replace it with carpet again eventually. And then they bring in their shoes inside the house and lay down on it. Crazy.
Bought engineered hardwood flooring for my bedroom and gonna install it within the next two weeks. Every time I vacuum there is a bunch of fine dust in the vacuum canister. Pretty sure that the foam carpet padding is disintegrating. Carpet is only 10 years old, and is the worst carpet I've ever had. Thanks Empire!
Even with all the good habits, regular vacuuming, deep hot cleaning, and no shoes in the house, my asthma and allergies were horrible and unbearable. I dont even have any pets. We have multiple air purifiers. It didnt get better until we got the carpet removed.
Most of our house is hard floors. I didn’t even realize how dirty carpets get. Crazy. I mean, we have rugs in our house. So, I can’t imagine how much bacteria is on our rugs.
This is why many people have asthma and serious allergies, but no doctor will ever tell you its your environment. For years as a kid i would get bad asthma attacks, and turns out it was the carpet and the home i was living in. Ince i moved out the attacks stopped. No doctor ever told me get a air purifier or is there mold, etc. Just her take this pill or take this inhaler !
This folks, is why you need to get a high airflow vacuum. Suction is a negative pressure, not a movement. Got to move the air in order to pick up the dirt.
hire a company that uses a truck mounted extractor every year or two to clean also, socked feet. foot oils will deposit on carpet and lets other dirt to stick too.
My house has carpet almost everywhere.. Theres two stories to my house (upstairs and a furnished basement)..in the hall,bedrooms,laundry room,living room upstairs is carpet (half carpet in the bathroom) and downstairs (the stair well is also carpeted) theres carpet in the bedrooms and the living room
Carpet is the best! cozy, keeps your feet warm. What part of take your shoes off when you're inside don't you understand? keeping your shoes on indoors carpet or not will get you sick
Bottom line is if you were in your shoes in a public bathroom and then you bring those shoes and walk around your house with it I just don't comprehend that
We have laminate floors. I regret buying laminate. You can’t wet mop it. It’s very hard to clean properly. I think vinyl is the easiest to clean. Hardwood with waxed floors would be easy too, but you have to maintain the wax.
Not everyone can afford hardwood flooring or have homes newer than 2000s. Not to mention carpet cleaning not just pickup dirt from carpets but also the subfloor, which is nasty on its own.
I’ll never understand people that don’t take off their shoes as soon as they enter their home.
Doesn’t even matter if you have pets like dogs. You should see all that bacteria from outside that your pet brings in your home.
No pets and no one ever comes on my carpet with shoes..ever..
i've seen people lay on their bed with shoes
Right? It should be noted it’s also a big tradition in most Asian households. Even if that practice only refers to spirits not entering the house, it’s still good to consider
@@elleni-41 Well, good news! I’m in town, and I’d love to stop by and introduce myself-in your living room, wearing my finest mud-caked boots, and, of course, bringing along my black lab who’s more interested in your couch than my commands. Hope your carpet enjoys surprises!
This is what you should do.
1. No shoes in the house.
2. Leave carpets for bedrooms only
3. Vacuum carpets weekly
4. Mop or vacuum tiles or floorboards as much as possible or as soon as you notuce dust. Carpets act like a filter but hard floors don't and so kicked up dust from hard floors linger in the air and enter your lungs.
5. Steam clean carpets, mats, and area rugs once every 6-12 months.
6. Try and wipe your pets feet and try to keep them clean before letting them in.
As a Filipino migrant in the US, I noticed that Americans who visited our apartment don’t often take their shoes off before entering.
@@Pearloryx Nicely ask them to remove their shoes or give them shoe bootie covers to put over their shoes.
Step 7 don’t use carpets at all! 🤢
Did you watch the video? It says to be safe, steam clean carpets every month!
I’m happy to see carpet is just beginning to go out of style because it is not healthy. Keeping healthy carpets is very expensive and time consuming. The really sad part is how carpeting became popular in shops, doctors offices, and churches 😢
@@MelanieH1422, no steam cleaning your carpets monthly would destroy them. Just because a video says something doesn't make it right. I manage buildings so I think I know how to deal with carpets.
This is a no brainer. OBVIOUSLY carpets can make people sick. We used to have carpet throughout most of the house but thankfully got rid of ALL of it. 😊👏🏻 I'm one of those people who absolutely HATES carpets and would absolutely, flat-out refuse to live on it again. Just nope! 🙅♀️
Give me hardwood flooring or linoleum any day over carpet.
do u use rugs?
My whole house is linoleum, and i have a small area rug in the living room. Much better to deal with a few small rugs than a whole house of carpet! @randomrazr
Carpets wont make you sick if you take care of them
Yes! I'm right there with you. I hate carpet
Oh you already knew that? Lol
some of the bacteria could have also come from the recovery tank of the carpet cleaner
this is why you should clean the tanks after use
As a former carpet cleaner this is the best answer! You have to hold the water in a sterile holding tank otherwise this experiment is useless. You could pour clean water into a holding tank and come up with positive test. Also the carpet cleaners wand and hoses have to be new and never used. 🤕Not to say they don't have bacteria in their carpet but the test is totally flawed.
This dude. I do it for a living and can say no one empties, rinses, scrubs and bleaches every time. Maybe once every 3 to 6 months depending. I often empty the tank and occasionally blast water through it to rinse. That's it. Lol we clean up EVERYTHING with it.
@@Pr0toPoTaT0 I work at a store as the janitor and I can tell you I'm the only one who cleans out our different cleaning machines.
What do you clean the vacuum tank with?
2:04 you also gotta wipe the pets butt too 😂
That’s true,because they could be scraping their buts on the carpet.
I know I did. Pets go outside and sometime step in poo.
Another win for hardwood floors
Not exactly 😂. Is the same thing you bring dirt from outside have to deep clean it everyday bruh 😂
@@purplefreax much easier to deep clean a wood floor than carpet though! Just give it a good mopping
@@nybiggsnot really. You're just smearing the poop all over.
@@wojtek-33 Not really. If you use a good disinfectant solution and mop the floor, it's clean. You don't need to spend money hiring a carpet cleaner.
Yes, but if you fall down you can injure yourself.
Carpet is something that should have stayed in the 1990s.
Wearing shoes inside houses should have stayed in the 1960s.
Or even before that, I agree. I hate carpet. Dealt with having one for about 3-4 years. Never again. Never ever again.
@@AudreyC379I don't like hard floors in my house
@@ncrveteranranger4454Why
@@ncrveteranranger4454 it’s better than floors with carpets that accumulate dirt easily
I once had a carpet that caused some allergic reactions to my skin for months. Visited several doctors with no cure until one GP told me to get rid of my carpet. Since then, the allergy has gone and I have never suffered it again for the past 16 years.
"PLEASE DONT WEAR NO SHOES IN MY HOUSE!!!" None of my family has worn shoes in the house for the past 20 years. Best decision ever!
Tips from vacuum vet here. Keep your shoes outside. Shampoo 2 to 4 times a year. More if you have pets. Vacuum 2 times a week. Have a spot cleaner to remove stains before they set. Use a vacuum with a hepa sealed filter system.
Leaving shoes outside allows germ ridden roaches & other bugs and insects to crawl inside of them! If you don't have a mud room, just place an adequate size shoe rack by the door to hold the shoes! Keep the area where you step inside with your shoes mopped or vacuumed!
I hate carpets! No thank you.
Wow so a news station employee found a good way to get a family member a free professional carpet cleaning. She’s a lucky lady.
Do any of us think that carper cleaner did a full decontamination of his hose before doing this cleaning...NOPE!!!
Good point.
Who knows what is lurking in that tube from previous houses, and who knows when it was last cleaned 😬
Doesn’t really matter though. He’s not putting that hose water back into the house so 🤷♂️
@@Gabri3lRocha maybe, but those two shots of gross water is very suspect
This is why I prefer hard wood/tile floor.
Floors just as dirty. Try mopping it. The mop water comes out as mud.
I just love these fear mongering news segments! 😅
I like how anybody acts surprised that their carpet is dirty.
Her Staten Island accent is wild 😂
I’m surprised no one is taking about that. I have a somewhat strong Long Island accent and I was shocked by her
In the 80's we didn't steam clean our carpets, ever, not once. We survived. We also rarely licked the carpet.
The dirt from the carpet can still enter your body when you touch the carpet with your hand and subsequently eat a meal, etc.
Guess where you find bacteria away from your carpet? Nature! Lol
After doing an internship at a hotel I will never ever take my shoes off in a hotel room ever again.
I didn’t even have to have an internship for that lmfao
Just common sense! Scares me just getting in the “clean” bed 😂
Growing up I was always raised to never walk barefoot in a hotel room. When I was younger i questioned it and thought it was silly. But now I’m older and completely understand why
I wonder what’s in those hotel carpets 😅
Never have I ever walked on a hotel floor barefoot! 🤢 Always bring flip flops 💯
I always bring slippers when we travel.
I don't know decades ago I lived with carpet, grew up strong & healthy
Still nasty knowing there’s a bunch of trapped dirt and bacteria within the carpet though. Sure I can live a long life if I never showered but it’s still gross
@@Gabri3lRocha Vacuums
@@Warp2090 regular vacuums do nothing to throughly disinfect a floor though 🤦♂️. All they do is pick up dirt. They do nothing to disinfect bacteria tracked from the bathroom or especially public places. You can mitigate this issue by leaving shoes at the door but its difficult for families with lots of kids
@@Gabri3lRochais a shampoo vacuum better
@@Impishsheep better as long as it’s a disinfect shampoo and not regular shampoo plus it’s a lot of work to be shampooing and extracting the carpet even once of a month let alone weekly or biweekly. You can probably disinfect and mop a hard wood floor in a single room in 5 min or less whereas if it were carpet it would probably take 30min to an hour to properly do it plus the way longer drying time
Nobody is catching meningitis and pneumonia from their carpet 😂😂😂 😩😭
Hahaha I know right, meningitis can't live outside the human body very long there's definitely no way someone can get meningitis from a carpet.
You could probably do that same test on any hardwood or laminate floor and find similar kinds of results. The big thing is they don't say in what quantity etc.
Yes carpets will hold more, but it feels like there might be a bit of fear mongering. After all I bet if they reran the steam cleaner within even half an hour of cleaning it they would find similar results.
Just remember what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
This is why... when my parents moved to a new house, we made SURE, it only came with hardwood floors.
If you clean like this then dehumidify afterwards
No wonder i keep getting sick. Guess i gotta stop licking the carpet starting..........now.
“Omg I’m shocked” girl
That acting lol and cleaning her carpet daily is cap
Vacuum only cleans out the dirt hair and dust not the germs.
I would recommend fixing the hepa filter part, as the hepa filter itself does nothing UNLESS its a fully sealed system.
Steam clean Every month!!! Message brought to you by carpet cleaners.
Who has time to do that???
RIGHT! and $300 a month. Every time we get them to do our floor "OH you need pet enzymes to break down pet urine, pet odor, and anything pet related EXTRA $175"
@@jenuinelyyoursbuy one yourself at Walmart or Target. Best $200 ever spent
Bacteria is everywhere and you can’t avoid it all your life.
she didn't learn anything , she still had her slides on the carpet 😂😂
Amanda said she got that cawpit
😂Noo Yoawk accent
She got that yawk accent
It’s funny that they show a cheap Bissell vacuum while saying ” get a high quality, hepa vacuum.” A quality vacuum is not what you can buy at your local department store, go to a vacuum store! Most vacuum stores carry these three main quality brands: Miele, Sebo, and Riccar!
They all just suck up dirt. Sounds like they got you.
You need a high airflow vacuum like a Sanitaire or Kirby, maybe a old school Hoover. Here’s one misconception people have about vacuum cleaners, suction doesn’t pick up the dirt, airflow and agitation does. Suction does pick up dirt to a degree but more so maintains airflow. Suction aka vacuum is a negative pressure, not a movement. You got to move the air in order to pick up the dirt.
Hitachi is a better vacuum than Bissell
@@seana806 I agree with the Kirby or Sanitaire, but the average audience of Inside Edition would not know what to do with either of these. They will probably end up picking something to break the fan, then it will be the case that “Kirby makes a bad vacuum .” The typical is ignorant to the fact that you must watch what you pick up, so the bypass system is much safer. I have access to both direct air and bypass, I would choose direct air if given a choice.
I need a new dust filter for my Hoover MaxExtract PressurePro model 60.
This is why I don’t understand how people can comfortably have so much carpet and have dogs at the same time. Who wants to put up with maintenance of carpets. Carpet can get so dingy so quickly. You shoes, and sweaty feet.
All the bacteria helps build the immune system
@@RealHomeRecording ppl who say things like that probably don’t wash their hands after wiping their a$$ then proceed to touch food. That’s how we get ecoli outbreaks 😖
@@brendenharris7439 ironically I always wash my hands after using the bathroom. I probably wash my hands at least 10 times a day.
It’s not fair to say that about the carpet of course it’s going to have all that stuff on it. Think about what you do with your carpet you walk on it where do your shoes go everywhere? as long as you don’t eat the carpet, you’re OK.
Think about it this way how many decades have Americans had carpet in their homes? Now how often do you see people getting sick from carpet exactly now you know it’s not that big of a deal.
Couple questions:
1. Did they sanitize/wash the machines before the test???
2. Is shampooing better than steam cleaning??
We have hardwood floors along with tile floors but yet, I still wake up in the middle of the night sneezing.
Well this isn't the only thing that can make you sneeze, you forgot the other thousands of things.
poop farts
That’s serious. Something is causing it
Buy your own new steam cleaner and clean it. Don’t use a company that uses the same machines on everyone’s home. And definitely don’t rent a cleaner like the carpet doctor.
I stopped putting in carpet years ago
I put flooring then buy washable area rugs
& send off to commercial laundry to wash with vinegar
Ruggable is a fantastic solution if you really want to have something over a portion of your non-carpeted floors. You just pick that thing up off the pad, throw it into the washing machine and it’s done.
I hate carpet. It just never gets clean. I don’t even want it in the bedroom 😂
It does get clean if you have a good vacuum.
@@Warp2090 not the same as hard floors
Replace carpet with wood flooring. Problem solved.
I mean. Dirt is worm poop.
Yes and no
you cannot escape poop. It all in the air after you go number 1.
I feel like I'm the only one who grew up with a mom who shampooed the carpet. There is no way this many people have never known to shampoo their carpet.
We Asian has been taking off our shoes beige entering our homes for many decades. But The Americans still haven’t learn it.
I am American and i never wear shoes inside my home, not even socks. It is healthier for the foot’s musculature and bone health as well, and lessens the likelihood of developing foot fungus. i only wear shoes if I am on public property
remember the American movies and TV shows where teens where their shoes on bed? IDK if that reflects in real life. imaging smearing chewed gum or dog poo a bed
I mean the Second Lady in the video very clearly had her shoes off, and she still showed her carpet was dirty
@@AgentMerceryeah, I can't even imagine wearing shoes 24 hours a day, that would hurt
I always make sure not to touch my stuff without washing hands first too
I came back from a trip to Japan and the shoe thing is real. The floors in that house stayed clean and when we cleaned them it really glowed. I do the same now in the States.
People all over the world have said this to people in commonwealth countries(the places most likely to have this kind of carpet on their floors and walk with outdoor shoes in side) for decades now. It's not to be mean, and your floors will get dirty even if you have no fuzzy carpet don't walk with shoes on inside, but it gets soooo much worse! :)
Carpeted floors should be a thing of the past. Just put in parquet and wear socks if you're cold!
Omg I hate carpets. It’s too much work and they smell
This feels like fear mongering.
How many of us really know people who have gotten sick due to their carpet?
This is why I will not have carpet in my house, easier to clean floor without carpet
Okay hardwood floors from now on
My old apartment was covered in carpet I was scared how I easily got sick I felt that’s why carpet was removed from whole family’s house
If those of use who have tile floors have to mop/sweep/vacuum everyday (because you see/feel every crumb), I can imagine the same stuff is on our carpeted floors.
Lol I'm so glad I don't have carpet in my house. 😊
If you have a cat or dog. You can't have a clean house. It may look clean but there is harmful bacteria all over the place.
When I first came to US I was shocked that homes were built with carpet. Maybe its cheaper but then some people choose to replace it with carpet again eventually. And then they bring in their shoes inside the house and lay down on it. Crazy.
what is it with americans using shoes in their home?
It's laughable the reasons they come up with to justify it!!
I've kept my shoes on inside at a friend's house b/c his carpet was too gross to walk on in socks lmao cleaner inside my shoes
They just lazy to take their shoes off, and it's becoming a tradition.
@@godofnothing520crocs, they take 0 effort to take off
After getting an aggressive form of athletes foot from living with roommates in college…yeah I don’t think barefoot is the way to go.
_OR... DON'T HAVE CARPET_
This is why I don't like carpet.
This is why I got rid of my pet. After having children it’s just gross to think of all the bacteria they track about.
I got a rainbow vacuum and I LOVE it. It really gets deep down in the carpet
After watching this I feel like I don't want carpets anymore
Yuck! All that dirt. That's why I never walk in parks. They're full of dirt everywhere! 😂
Bought engineered hardwood flooring for my bedroom and gonna install it within the next two weeks. Every time I vacuum there is a bunch of fine dust in the vacuum canister. Pretty sure that the foam carpet padding is disintegrating. Carpet is only 10 years old, and is the worst carpet I've ever had. Thanks Empire!
I’m more worried about the forever chemicals in the carpet than just some bacteria
Carpet, which is essentially fabric, makes zero sense. Why put fabric on the floor? Why not use natural material like wood or tiles.
That’s why we have tile throughout our entire house. Carpet is disgusting.
I love my Kirby vacuum! It’s insane how clean it makes my carpet!
I steam and shampoo mine once a month
Do these people never clean their homes? Pretty sure the carpet isn't the only thing making them sick.
Been staying a room for 3 years, been sneezing non stop whenever I stay there. When I left stopped sneezing. Found out underneath the carpet has mold.
Even with all the good habits, regular vacuuming, deep hot cleaning, and no shoes in the house, my asthma and allergies were horrible and unbearable. I dont even have any pets. We have multiple air purifiers. It didnt get better until we got the carpet removed.
Most of our house is hard floors. I didn’t even realize how dirty carpets get. Crazy. I mean, we have rugs in our house. So, I can’t imagine how much bacteria is on our rugs.
They should do a test in a home where people take off their shoes to see if there’s a difference
This is why many people have asthma and serious allergies, but no doctor will ever tell you its your environment.
For years as a kid i would get bad asthma attacks, and turns out it was the carpet and the home i was living in.
Ince i moved out the attacks stopped.
No doctor ever told me get a air purifier or is there mold, etc. Just her take this pill or take this inhaler !
I have a hypothesis, if your carpet is so dirty, then you’ll get sick
No kids, no pets, hardwood floors, I am good!
Thank god my house dont got carpet
This folks, is why you need to get a high airflow vacuum. Suction is a negative pressure, not a movement. Got to move the air in order to pick up the dirt.
This is my favorite episode of king of queens.
hire a company that uses a truck mounted extractor every year or two to clean
also, socked feet. foot oils will deposit on carpet and lets other dirt to stick too.
My house has carpet almost everywhere..
Theres two stories to my house (upstairs and a furnished basement)..in the hall,bedrooms,laundry room,living room upstairs is carpet (half carpet in the bathroom) and downstairs (the stair well is also carpeted) theres carpet in the bedrooms and the living room
Jokes on you, I DONT HAVE A CARPET
if you wanna have a cleam carpit just dont have one
Who the hells going to pay to get their carpet steam cleaned once a month?!?!
They only does the vacuum at the HEPA filter. it also has to be a complete sealed system because if it’s not sealed the filter, doesn’t do anything
I recommend a Dyson
I got this thing called an immune system lived with carpet and pets for over 40 years and I’m fine.
I will never walk on someone elses carpet in my socks
Carpet shouldn't be used anymore🤷🏽♂️
Carpet is disgusting. I have not lived in a home that had it since I was a child, and I never will again. It is a dirt and germ trap under your feet.
Carpet is the best! cozy, keeps your feet warm. What part of take your shoes off when you're inside don't you understand? keeping your shoes on indoors carpet or not will get you sick
Bottom line is if you were in your shoes in a public bathroom and then you bring those shoes and walk around your house with it I just don't comprehend that
0.01% ammonia can’t kill you😂
Enough of it can
We have laminate floors. I regret buying laminate. You can’t wet mop it. It’s very hard to clean properly. I think vinyl is the easiest to clean. Hardwood with waxed floors would be easy too, but you have to maintain the wax.
Not everyone can afford hardwood flooring or have homes newer than 2000s. Not to mention carpet cleaning not just pickup dirt from carpets but also the subfloor, which is nasty on its own.
I thought all floors were hardwood but covered with carpet? Am I wrong?
I recently put a HEPA filter on my 1998 Hoover wind tunnel turbo power 7500 self-propelled vacuum cleaner