Glad you like carpet travelnutz, but hubby and I just got rid of all our carpet in our home and replaced with hardwood and yes it is more work but I promise you, you can walk on our floors with white socks and be impressed. Our drive way is black top and that gets on shoes and drags all kind of dirt on carpeting. So anyway much more work I must say but I know its clean. on vacation this past sept. we had a whole plate of barbeque ribs dumped on TT floor and thank goodness for no carpet. That was an adult not grandbaby! LOL Anyway each their own:) Tara