Best carpet for home with dogs

elliesmemory1

Any suggestions for best flooring for a home with dogs?
I have two large dogs and unfortunately my patio doors come straight in from the garden to living room.
This means in winter the dogs go out in to garden and then bring in mud on their feet to living room.
I cant change the doors so need a easy clean but warm flooring.
I dont want laminate as its too slippy.
I put down towels and have door mats down but need a better solution.
Any suggestions please.

dunroving

If the dogs are going to walk in and out at will, to/from the muddy outdoors, I can't see any carpet that will work.. Maybe some sort of man-made rug(s) on top of hard floors? Then you can lift the rugs every week to clean them and sweep/wipe the hard floor.

Davesnave

The trouble is, you are pursuing a country type of lifestyle in a house unsuited to it, if the property has no back door from, say, the kitchen/utility.

In the country, farm dogs get as far as the dairy/utility area, if they're lucky enough to get into the house at all. There they stay, along with their muck.

In our house we've no dog, but a system of cat flap locks directs the hairy ones to the conservatory whenever necessary.

For something carpet-like and fairly stain resistant, I remember Flotex. It's not especially cheap and the patterns used to be hideous, but maybe it's improved in the latter respect:

https://www.forbo.com/flooring/en-uk/products/for-your-home/flotex/b0rbao

tori.k

The muddy paws dirty dog doormats i've been told are quite good, How good I don't know but hopefully will find out soon as we are looking to home a couple of whippets

Doozergirl

A polypropelene carpet will be more washable than wool, but there is no carpet that is actually suitable for an area like that. If you want something that is clean then it has to be a hard floor.

We've lived in many houses and put down every type of floor and the hardest wearing is LVT flooring. It's also relatively warm under foot. Amtico is the most famous, probably, but there are plenty of considerably cheaper alternatives out there now.

If you want carpet in the main area then have a *massive* rug in the middle. We can't even have that as our big dog loves to create messy disasters on soft things (for his comfort). :mad: :rotfl:

dunroving

Sorry to sidetrack, but I have to recount the occasion I was staying with the sister of a friend while waiting on a rental to become available. She was away at work and I was working at my laptop in the kitchen while Suzy (my black Lab) was enjoying the sunny garden.

Then, in bounded Suzy, full of the joys of life, having wallowed in the lovely, cool bog at the bottom of the garden - and proceeded to "spread the joy" all over my hostess's lovely, furry cream carpet!

Dogs, mud and carpets definitely don't mix. ;-)

Cisco001

I can't think of any better solution than hard floor...
If it is too slippery, you could wear slippers...

hammy1988

I would never consider carpet for my dog. I have patio doors straight to the garden and my carpet would be ruined by now, or it would have been ruined within a week of us moving here! I have wooden flooring, and its not slippy at all...
I have a little spray mop that I use and when muddy paws have worked their way in, a little spray and wipe and all gone. When you have dogs sometimes you have to sacrifice your aesthetic wants...
I also have to washable mats by the patio doors which does help.

Silvertabby

hammy1988 wrote: »

I would never consider carpet for my dog. I have patio doors straight to the garden and my carpet would be ruined by now, or it would have been ruined within a week of us moving here! I have wooden flooring, and its not slippy at all...
I have a little spray mop that I use and when muddy paws have worked their way in, a little spray and wipe and all gone. When you have dogs sometimes you have to sacrifice your aesthetic wants...
I also have to washable mats by the patio doors which does help.

Ditto. We changed our carpet (elderly cats have accidents) for oiled oak and it's lovely. Not slippy, and 'accidents' are so easy to deal with.

sevenhills

What you need is a multi-coloured carpet, all other issues are minor.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970s-Retro-Axminster-wilton-wool-carpet-roll-13ft10-x-6ft3/142748616345?hash=item213c7b0699:g:by4AAOSw~xVayIkS

Something like the above, without white.

missprice

sevenhills wrote: »

What you need is a multi-coloured carpet, all other issues are minor.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970s-Retro-Axminster-wilton-wool-carpet-roll-13ft10-x-6ft3/142748616345?hash=item213c7b0699:g:by4AAOSw~xVayIkS

Something like the above, without white.

Ohhhh is that why vomit patterned carpets were all the rage when I was a child?
For OP laminate or vinyl, not carpet