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thinking laterally 🙂

It won't unfortunately pick up
a steamy pile. But all of the area not covered by the pants, that falls off the dog (hair) it works great on. :-). And I might add that anyone that gets one. Give your house a good thorough vacuuming and then deploy the Roomba, you will be flat out amazed

Nope...stairs are a problem
so I bought a small Shark portable electric vacuum for the stairs.

whitespike should-a named this thread
Vacuum! Or maybe PetPoop!

BTMan. Your dog wears pants?:)
Swank, don't get rid of your Kirby. You'll need it every month or so.
For thick rugs or shags.
Roomba has a sensor that keeps it from rolling over the stair edge...
I hit the stairs ever once in a while with the central vac. And the big shag
in the liv room.
I use Roomba for allergy and dust bunny maintenance. Daily dog fur.
It doesn't like shoe laces or fringe but what vac does?
My only complaint is that it manages to close the bathroom doors on itself.
Gets stuck in there.
My dogs ignore it now but were amused at first...put a toy on top. Funny s**t.
I'd get scooba but my kitchen floors are waxed terrazzo tiles and not recommended.
If it only did windows. I have 3 big sliders...dog nose juice...
I gave the new model i posted earlier as x-mas gifts to my less than tidy
in-laws and my obsessive tidy parents. They both love it.

So here is a carpet...
So here is a carpet question.
Is it odd to place rugs on carpet?
The carpet is medium pile shag like, almost white. My rug is a snot green shag.

Rugs on carpet
I have carpet at home, its a really dark grey so it shows every bit of dust and fluff plus it will be prone to fading in the sun, it's nice and cosy underfoot though!

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I love the gum ball rug 😀

Pete, tell me about your daybed
Who designed it?

It's
Ercol
(as Pete doesn't seem to be around)

Hi guys
SMGSwank thanks :)...
Hi guys
SMGSwank thanks 🙂 its a bugger to keep clean!
whitespike they daybed is by a british manufacturer called Ercol to be honest I'm not sure who the designer was, they are easy to get hold of here in the UK, i picked this one up for 70 pounds from Oxfam and had a local guy fix it up a little, as you can imagine its not the most comfortable to sit on but its great for taking afternoon naps on 🙂
the link blow is a little bit of Ercol history
http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_style/furniture/ercol.html

thanks Robert 🙂
I'm a...
thanks Robert 🙂
I'm a bit slow on the keyboard

No
Worries
it was a family business, and the founder Luciano (or Lucien) Ercolani (yes, they were Italian) did much of the design 🙂

Carpet pros and cons - sound
When recently shopping for a house I desperately wanted an older house with hardwood floors. Having outgrown our current house (with hardwood) with baby #2 on the way, we had to settle quickly for a pretty generic new construction home carpet and all.
We have both laminate (which we installed after moving in) and carpet. While carpet is a pain to clean when stains arrive, I find it is 10 times easier to vacuum a wall-to-wall carpeted room than to vacuum and then sweep/swiffer or whatever around an area rug. Maybe the roomba would help.
While hardwood brings a natural beauty that cannot be beat over carpet or laminate any day, the comfort and sound dampening qualities of carpet make it a good choice too. With 2 little ones, we lay all over the floor in carpeted rooms, in those with area rugs we are more limited to the rug. Also, the carpeted rooms are "quieter" which for a bedroom is a very nice thing to have.
There is more than the visual aspect of a space that contributes to its "beauty", things like sound - especially if you are sensitive to this - play a huge role.

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Wouldn't it be good to have rugs that come ready stained with red wine in splatter patterns? Jackson Pollock and a bottle of Burgundy? I've read that he did like a drink.
Droog could sell a rug with a complimentrrya bottle of wine called 'do spill'
Or those rich floral Axminster carpets, photograph by Rosemary Laing.