> "who the hell thinks carpet ... is a good idea in the bathroom?" Even if the house doesn't have men, it presumably has women who bathe, or children who splas

> "who the hell thinks carpet ... is a good idea in the bathroom?" Even if the house doesn't have men, it presumably has women who bathe, or children who splash in the bathtub and aren't great at always making it to the potty, or toilets that occasionally clog, or any number of other ways to get gray/black water on the bathroom floor. The other place I can't stand carpet is the dining room. Food has a way of finding the floor -- whether it's crumbs, meatballs rolling off the plate, or kids flinging spaghetti because it's funny. > "That's why you have a friend help" Yeah. Every time my father in law visits, it's home improvement time. There are a lot of projects I do on my own, but certain categories of projects, I want to be able to call on extra experience.