People who carpet bathrooms clearly don’t understand the concept of mold. This is beyond filthy. What a disgrace.
People who don’t get carpeted bathrooms, underestimate the dangers of slipping on tiles.
It’s no coincidence that the elderly love a carpetted bathroom. It’s less of an issue than it once was, especially if you can afford a cleaner who shampoos the carpet once a week.
Not this monstrosity obviously.
Or I can just put down a bath mat that I can easily remove and throw in the laundry.
Old people trip on things.
So that step up to the shower is even more of a bad idea then.
Yes.
Then wear sandals or something
If elderly people tripping is the biggest worry than instead of carpet they should floor it with outdoor decking vinyl or something. Waterproof and gritty for grip.
Wow if only there was a choice other than tiles or a filthy carpet that you gotta shampoo with a cleaner every week.
If only there were tiles with ribs and other anti slip features that could prevent slipping.
If only there were bathroom rugs.
Slipping in the bathroom is just the modern version of lions weeding out the old.
This house is fractally horrible. Every single picture (is that all red one a murder room, btw?) is horrible, and every level of zoom makes it worse.
I can’t think of any use for this house other than renting it out to people making those “Ghost Hunter TV show about to get cancelled but then they find a real haunted house and they all die” kinds of movies.
At least it doesn’t look like Ikea. Most rooms in Germany look like Ikea. Unfortunately.
A tad over dramatic there.
I like how all the carpets look like they have telltale signs of professional cleaning, and then there’s the bathroom carpet.
I can smell this picture
There is carpet INSIDE the shower
I like how the wall paper and the carpet perfectly mix with every shade of mold and bacteria colony possible
There’s shit on the carpet for fuck’s sake!
You’d think they’d edit the photo just a little.
It’s unapologetically just near the toilet, how do they think anyone’s buying this?
I worked in real estate.
Properties like this were catnip. It puts off casuals, but is a relatively easy fix. Knew a guy who often bought a property like this, tore everything out, filled a container, aired it all out, would often make a 50k profit. No painting, no renovation, just a general clean, wipe down with bleach, and removal of crap.
I’d happily scoop up a turd with my bare hands, if I was being paid 50k to do it. Let’s be honest, most of us would.
Of course, this kind of property also attracts people who think they’re good at DIY and underestimate how much stuff costs to fix properly. The Money Pit basically.
Do you just fall into the shower when you step through the curtains?
I honestly think that’s exactly what happens. Haha.
The stains!
The Mold.
The subfloor under that shower is probably rotten enough I wouldn’t trust it to hold the weight of the shower for very long.
I didn’t realize it till now, but I think this is how I pictured all bathrooms in Iowa looked.
I figured that’s why presidential candidates always stumped there first: Everyone feels really sorry for them due to shit like this.
Someone was clearly living here very recently, just like “This is fine.”
Definitely people who had been there since at least the 70s and retired or something. It looks like a grandparent’s home.
The kitchen looks straight out of Poltergeist.
Omg I didn’t notice until you pointed it out, but that’s exactly the kitchen from Poltergeist.
Built in 1978.
Holy Santa Claus! The ecosystem underneath that must be insane.
I refuse that whatever old geezer thought adding carpet to a bathroom was not mentally all the way there. Then his buddy came along and saw it and the old geezer instead of admitting fault doubled down and made it seem ok. Now we got this shit still in 2023.
I just pulled carpet in a cottage bathroom over this past summer so we could replace it with vinyl.
It is exactly as gross as you think it is under there.
Was it rotted under there?
Yes. There was mold and a lot of the carpet pad was disintegrated.
Thankfully there was only about a 12x12" section of subfloor that was rotted, so that was easy enough to replace.
The smell of the entire cottage has improved, though. Pretty nasty.
I had a carpeted kitchen as a kid. It was also pretty nasty when it came up, this horrible burnt orange looped shag rug. Lots of spills under there.
Oh no, I can not tell where the carpet ends and the tub begins.
Very strong 80s vibes from this place. It’s not too bad overall, but I’d definitely rip out a lot of carpet if I bought the place. And not just in the bathroom.
