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The vast quantity of dirt discovered under the carpet during the replacement of the old carpet in the new house.
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It’s most likely dust/debris from the carpet pad.
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Carpet pad and carpet backing. Although it looks bad it’s actually pretty normal for stairs.
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Yup it’s the old pad and backing that’s broken down over time. It turns to a powder.
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From dust we came and to dust we shall return.
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…in the wind🎵
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That’s all we are
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Happy cake day
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Thank you!
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The entire planet is a ball of dust that accumulated from the remains of the much earlier sun.
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Also, was it a shoes on or shoes off house?
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It wouldn’t really matter that much, this is under the carpet/part of the carpet. Maybe shoes would make the impact stronger but it’s still the bottom stairs, which are going to take alot of force over the years so it’s going to be like this regardless.
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“Dit”? Come on, now.
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Older the carpet, the more of it that breaks down and dry rots — yep!
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I’ve pulled up my share of carpet and I’ve never seen it look like that. That looks like straight dirt. When I’ve seen that carpet pad debris it has a lighter tint. I guess it depends on what color your pad was though.
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Pretty normal. Carpets are DISGUSTING harbingers of trapped dirt and allergen
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Hell yeah. I just ripped out a house full of carpets that are 50 years old if they’re a day and the clouds of dust were phenomenal. It makes me never want carpets again!
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I just moved to a new place. I was at the old place for 18.5 years. I took a few after pics of the old place after everything had been moved out. The amount of dirt and shit that was under furniture / behind things hanging on the walls was eye opening. The place looked “clean” when the room was filled. Can’t imagine what it looks like under that carpet. New owners will have to replace all the carpet / paint everything.
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Yeah laminate and a big ass rug is the way. Best of both.
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What if they’re a night?
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I need to know this
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People sleep at night, so less carpet wear. The carpets only age during the day when people are more active
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Brother Darkness, even.
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> harbingers harborers
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Hark, sayeth the carpet: I herald the arrival of the trapped dirt and allergen.
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Exactly
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People don’t vacuum nearly as often as they need to (myself included). I also highly recommend a proper carpet cleaner/shampooer if you are maintaining carpeting. Get a versatile one so you can do the stairs and even your car.
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I’ve got full linoleum. A little trashy I guess, it is a trailer after all, but cleaning it is super easy and takes very little time. I got one of those robot vacuums I glued googly eyes to and named Mr. Sweepy and he does a good job on these floors.
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I hover my stairs weekly and every week they fill my Dysons bag up I don’t understand how there can be this much dust and hair…. So much hair.
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It’s probably the most used section of floor in your house. You may not go into every room everyday, but if the bedrooms are separated from the main floor, everyone is hitting the stairs multiple times a day, pets included.
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A harbinger is something that foreshadows the coming of another thing. “The musty smell from carpets is a harbinger of the dirt and allergens trapped inside them.”
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And gross industrial chemicals. Why do people even bother with carpet?
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It’s cozy in certain spaces, if you have young kids crawling or learning to walk it can pad their knees and their falls, it keeps your feet warm in the winter. I don’t think it’s good for every room, especially not entrances and pathways like these stairs, but it has its advantages.
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I’m always very surprised to see so much carpet in US (and also English Canadian) videos taken from homes. Where I’m from it’s largely fallen out of fashion (I was a home inspector for a while, so I’ve seen tons of houses). And I mean I’m in Quebec, where we build pretty much like in the US (material and measurements wise). I just don’t understand
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In Europe it’s pretty much not a thing whatsoever. I’ve never in my life been in a room with carpet flooring.
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I used to install it. I hate carpet.
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We replaced our 18 year old carpet few years ago. It was not spotless but it was like new construction w/ minor debris/dust. We remove shoes when indoors and request our guests to also.
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Padding breakdown like in OP’s staircase is probably due to poor quality padding and God knows what spilled over the years. And I’d suspect things like powder carpet deodorizer was used on occasion as well.
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I dint wear shoes in my house but I have a lot of animals and am guessing that’s even worse on the carpet.
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It’s one reason why carpeting sucks in general. If you’ve ever had a rug on a hard surface floor you know that dirt and dust accumulate underneath and you just clean it every now and then. With carpet, your stuck with it until you decide to make a WTF post about it.
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I just replaced the carpet in my front room. Pulling up the old carpet and finding what was underneath made me feel like we’d been living in filth.
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> made me feel like we’d been living in filth. It’s not feelings.
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I really want to remove my carpeting upstairs in my house and can’t even imagine how bad it will look. I’m saving the money for it because it will probably cost thousands. But it’s going to be horrifying, I just know. I have 3 cats and a dog, and the dog used to pee in this one spot as a puppy. I would clean it and use enzyme cleaner but I just know it wasn’t enough.
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This happens when you don’t take off your shoes at home
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Probably the foam underlay falling apart and not dirt. I used to install carpet and when ripping out cheap stuff it always had that dirt.
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I tore out in order carpet in my house when I moved into it and it had Brown dust just like this. I think something underneath the carpet may have disintegrated after 50 years
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I bet it was super satisfying to vacuum up!
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People sayings carpets are disgusting. But we replaced carpets that had been down for 15 years when we bought this house (UK) and it was spotless underneath. Also, where is the underlay?
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