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The Complete Flooring and Carpets Collection

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Alisonpennypincher

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12 January 2007 at 3:24PM in Old style MoneySaving

This post is going to be a complete collection of ALL Carpet and Flooring threads here on Old Style.
Please do not add any posts or questions into this Index Thread but do your best to choose from the many threads below one which is most closely related to your query and by all means join that one.

- Work in progress, please check back soon

Carpets:
- Any alternatives to Shake and Vac?
- Carpet beetles and borax
- Chewing gum
- Cleaning carpets
- Clean spots on my carpet
- Coffee
- Coke stain
- Cranberry juice stain on wool carpet
- Curry on carpet
- Drinking chocolate stain
- Emulsion paint removal from carpet?
- Foundation
- Lemon tea and honey
- Limeade
- Lipstick
- Mascara
- Olive oil stain
- Pet Urine on carpet (smell)
- Pink Jelly
- Pollen - lilly pollen stains
- Removal of unidentifiable carpet stain
- Red Wine Stain on Carpet
- Scratch cover for furniture on carpet - removal
- Shampoo suggestions?
- Toothpaste stain on carpet
- Urine - Toddler stain
- Vomit - Sick on the carpet - sorry!
- Vomit - sick on rug
- Washing powder for cleaning carpets

Carpet sweeper - any good?

Flooring:

- Cheap way to clean a rug
- Cork tiles - urine
- Kitchen floor cleaning
- Laminate floor cleaning
- Laminate
- Laminate - scuff marks on laminate or lino?
- Laminate flooring - looks dull
- Lino - Ink
- Lino - Biro
- Quarry tiles
- Reducing the need to vacuum
- Toilet floor boards
- Woodblock floor (and tables)

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