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Don't know about others but I prefer ceramic tiles in the kitchen and bathrooms, with hardwood floors throughout the bedrooms and additional rooms with rugs placed where needed.
Especially when buying a new home, carpets seem to harvest too much crud plus with the chemical off gas and the chance of fleas, why are they so popular?
Also seeing some houses with hardwood veneer, seems like cheap alternative to real hardwood floors that won't last very long, for sellers to pass on to buyers at a low cost.
And who would want vinyl floor tiles with asbestos in them or the adhesive's used with them? How would you know if underneath the carpet these tiles where are original floor design and just covered over?
I had to read it twice before I finally got what the OP was saying.
Yes, I prefer hardwood throughout and tile in the bathrooms too. When house hunting, I am also leary of carpeted houses, especially older homes, because the carpet could be covering old asbestos flooring. It's not common in the city where I live, but in the rural areas it's very common to simply cover up asbestos. And that's a huge concern for me when I'm looking at carpeted house with the intentions of switching to hardwood. It would cost a fortune to discover asbestos under the carpet. The fact it costs a fortune is the very reason people simply cover it up. That's why carpet is popular in regions where asbestos was once the norm because it's the only flooring that doesn't punch holes in the asbestos when installed.
I had to read it twice before I finally got what the OP was saying.
Yes, I prefer hardwood throughout and tile in the bathrooms too. When house hunting, I am also leary of carpeted houses, especially older homes, because the carpet could be covering old asbestos flooring. It's not common in the city where I live, but in the rural areas it's very common to simply cover up asbestos. And that's a huge concern for me when I'm looking at carpeted house with the intentions of switching to hardwood. It would cost a fortune to discover asbestos under the carpet. The fact it costs a fortune is the very reason people simply cover it up. That's why carpet is popular in regions where asbestos was once the norm because it's the only flooring that doesn't punch holes in the asbestos when installed.
How old are these homes you're looking for? Asbestos hasn't been used in many years, unless you are looking at really old homes, it isn't a concern...
Sorry if some not understand, just wondering why carpets are so popular when the seem to have many drawbacks and can hide asbestos and other problems with flooring.
Veneer flooring can't really be repaired by sanding down like real hardwood floors, so in time it will have to be replaced.
The USA is country that doesn't care about its people's safety, its always about money, it still allows asbestos to be imported in or manufactured, unlike a lot of other countries that have banned it, asbestos is still not banned in the USA. [Too much money to be made in asbestos]
For buying a home that does have carpeting, would the sellers be obligated under disclosure to tell you if asbestos is underneath? Can't you request a home's history of all repair/modifications and construction done on the house while they owned it, and what if they lied about it?
I would even want to know if asbestos was removed from a house in the past that I was going to purchase.
I recently saw a house that had real hardwood floors in every room, it was refreshing!
Sorry if some not understand, just wondering why carpets are so popular when the seem to have many drawbacks and can hide asbestos and other problems with flooring.
Veneer flooring can't really be repaired by sanding down like real hardwood floors, so in time it will have to be replaced.
The USA is country that doesn't care about its people's safety, its always about money, it still allows asbestos to be imported in or manufactured, unlike a lot of other countries that have banned it, asbestos is still not banned in the USA. [Too much money to be made in asbestos]
For buying a home that does have carpeting, would the sellers be obligated under disclosure to tell you if asbestos is underneath? Can't you request a home's history of all repair/modifications and construction done on the house while they owned it, and what if they lied about it?
I would even want to know if asbestos was removed from a house in the past that I was going to purchase.
I recently saw a house that had real hardwood floors in every room, it was refreshing!
Asbestos is really a trade name kinda like Q-Tips and is NOT in-and-of-itself dangerous, breathing the fibers LONG term can be though.
Again, I would be more worried about the Radon from those fancy Granite counter tops.
When I bought my house, it had carpet OVER nasty old shag orange carpet!!! So, if you think your carpet is bad enough is needs to be replaced, why would you put brand new carpet over it. I still don't get what they were thinking. IT is disgusting!!! Then, there is padding under the 2 layers of nasty yucky carpet that has to be scrapped off the floors. Big fat mess. Maybe that's why they left the first layer...less demo work??
When I bought my house, it had carpet OVER nasty old shag orange carpet!!! So, if you think your carpet is bad enough is needs to be replaced, why would you put brand new carpet over it. I still don't get what they were thinking. IT is disgusting!!! Then, there is padding under the 2 layers of nasty yucky carpet that has to be scrapped off the floors. Big fat mess. Maybe that's why they left the first layer...less demo work??
And, they didn't have to buy new padding.
Gross. lol
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