Re: Kids room flooring.... | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Racheli Gai (rachelisonoracohousing.com) | |
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:50:28 -0800 (PST) |
Most (and maybe ALL) cheap/"affordable" wall to wall carpets are exceedingly toxic, as far as I know. And they off-gas for *years*. Since kids are closer to the ground, they inhale more of the crud, and since their bodies aren't fully grown, they are more at risk than most adults. additionally, all wall to wall carpets are close to impossible to clean thoroughly. If people feel that they have to have a carpet - go for an area carpet, preferably wool. Wool carpets can be taken out and hosed clean (a method which doesn't work too well with many cotton rugs). Did any community try linoleum floors? -- They are supposed to last for a long time, and aren't as hard as some other floors.I think that if one gets the tile variety, they aren't too hard to install,
and they are good, environmentally speaking. Racheli Sonora cohousing, Tucson. On Nov 29, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Carol Singleton wrote:
We have laminate-type flooring (I don't actually know what it is) overentire room. We had a full length area rug custom made for a little less than half of the room. It works well. The rug area is used for reading, non-messy floor play, etc. The laminate floor part is used for activities that are messy (painting, etc.) and other non-cozy fun stuff. It works wellthis way. Carol Singleton Oak Creek Commons Paso Robles, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyle Scheer" <wonko [at] monkeyhouse.org> To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:47 PM Subject: [C-L]_ Kids room flooring....-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 We're in the process of selecting flooring for our Kids room. We're budget conscious but want something that will work well. Currently it looks like we're leaning towards laminate flooring with an area rug or similar to cut noise.However, I noticed when going back over photos of the bay area cohousing tour we took last October that most of the places we saw had carpet, so I've been making the argument that carpet will likely be easiest on ourbudget and will work better at noise reduction, which I am theorizing should be the largest factor flooring choice for the kids room. The problem is I'm just guessing. What does your cohousing group have? Would you use something else? What do you like or not like about it? If money were no object, what flooring would you use and why? When it was worked into your reserve study, what life expectancy did you use for your particular flooring estimating kids room wear and tear?I guess the same question could be asked of the Kitchen. It looks likewe're headed towards sheet vinyl. We almost went for commercial grade vinyl tile, but our builder had bad things to say about it. Thanks! - - Lyle -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFbSzw00lQLawESXoRAwcoAJ4rYhSgOt1KwyfeMKmDJwuomE4/hwCbBTCj N19xXJGIepRU67IB3BMkSDc= =IeKD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/_________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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Kids room flooring.... Lyle Scheer, November 28 2006
- Re: Kids room flooring.... Caren Albercook, November 29 2006
- Re: Kids room flooring.... Bonnie Fergusson, November 29 2006
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Re: Kids room flooring.... Carol Singleton, November 29 2006
- Re: Kids room flooring.... Racheli Gai, November 29 2006
- Re: Kids room flooring.... Andrew Netherton, November 29 2006
- Re: Kids room flooring.... Prescott Nichols, November 29 2006
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Re: Kids room flooring.... Trudy Reeves, November 29 2006
- Re: Kids room flooring.... Oilcloth International/Cardie Molina, November 29 2006
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