Errgh Tile, wood or carpet?
 

Well we have been remodeling our house. We are at the point where we can do the floors. I wanted to put carpet in the bedrooms and tile in bathrooms and everywhere else. However Peanut will still pee on the carpet. We leave him out at night so he can come up in bed with us or go sleep in his crate- I have his pad in our bedroom as well-
If I do carpet in our bedroom than I would have I put the pad on the carpet? Eek That doesn't sound right, I guess I could get a pad holder…. And I know without a doubt that little stinker will pee on the carpet! ERRGH!!

We have been re-training him. He has been doing great! I lock him in the bedroom when I’m at work. Then when I get home he is locked in the bedroom- if I go out and I know I will be able to watch him I will let him loose. He will usually want to go outside in his dog run and lay in the sun.. he has been going to the bedroom to pee on his pad so he has been doing great, Compared to what he was!! OMG he was horrid! He would pee anywhere he wanted!!

Hmm I’m not sure what to do- I really want carpet in the bedrooms. What do you guys have? If you have carpet do you keep them out of the rooms?

We have carpet in the bedrooms, tile in the bathrooms, and then wood every where else but the rooms that have wood have carpets in them. Callie will not sit or lay on anything other then carpet unless its am emergency lol. Callie goes outside when she has to pee and has sense around 9 months so she doesn't go potty on the floors. I though honestly would never suggest wood floors because they have to be cleaned with certain wood floor cleaner, you can't use a steam mop on them and you can't use a regular broom on them but I am a carpet girl :D

The house already has wood floors, everywhere but the bathrooms. I hate it! It is super nice flooring, but it has a tint of red to it and it drives me crazy! When we moved in the walls were different shades of blue, with red tint wood floors- drove me crazy!! Now we have painted so it is nice and tan with white moldings and base boards.. The wood does look a little better with the tan walls, but I still hate it.

I have never cleaned them with wood cleaner- don’t really care that much. Now I’m lucky and we have a maid so I don’t have to worry bout that! However when I did clean them, I didn’t clean them with wood cleaner and I used a regular broom.

I’m more of a carpet tile girl. Now having the wood, I hate them.

At Home Depot/Lowes/Menards they sell linoleum remnants. They typically go for around $20 for (I believe) a 6' x 8'. You could get a couple of those to lay down and after he is fully trained, easily pick them up and throw them away.

I actually bought one to keep under the x-pen that I keep in the kitchen to protect the hardwood floors while Dexter is still in the house breaking phase. It's actually a remnant that looks like a hardwood floor so beyond the slight color difference, people really don't notice it there.

That's a good idea.. I guess I could always put in his pad in the bathroom.. I know he loves to pee on our bath mats, but hopefully we can get to the point where he wont! LOL

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My kitchen is tiled and I love it. I can clean up any accidents quickly. The areas I have carpet dogs are not allowed. No matter how much you trust these male Yorkies, mine will lift a leg once in awhile for no reason and just pee. Then look at me with that "Did I do that?" look on their fur face!

I love tile too! LOL That is for sure!!! Where do your babies sleep?

I have all tile on the main floor & bathrooms, and all wood floors upstairs in bedrooms and LOVE it. If there is an accident, I see it right away and clean it up; no more hiding in the carpet.

I was so happy to get rid of the last of the carpet upstairs and in my office, and totally disgusted to see the pee stained dust filled carpet pulled out. Even though it was cleaned, it was still a sponge for yuckiness.

Tile is the most durable, easiest to clean flooring. Wood is good too, and takes a little more care and adds value to your home if you go to resell. You can use area rugs to get that soft feeling, and they can be cleaned or replaced much easier than carpet.

But, it also depends on your climate and tastes. Hard floors are colder especially in winter, but feel nice when it's hot. Flooring is expensive, so think long term, what will last and what will you be happy with for say 10 years, or what will make your home more valuable if you decide to sell it.

Good luck with training.

well I love wood so I cant tell you to go wood or tile if you don't like it. That said my house has white carpets on the entire second floor and one of the bedrooms downstairs came with the house). With 5 bedrooms on the second floor its a lot of carpet. If you love carpet you should have it. The problem with tile is if they pee on it (my housecleaners clean for a neighbor who's dog pees on the tile) and they said it is a real problem cleaning the grout. They are on their hands and knees scrubbing it. I am pretty stern with Jess when it comes to peeing on the carpet. I would keep your baby in a small room for now without carpet and (laundry room) or gate off and place pee pads everywhere. Eventually remove them one by one. Praise him to the hilts when he goes on them. I don't know how your pup responds but when I tried only positive renforcement it didn't work. She didn't get why she could pee on the carpet. So when she did, even if I didn't catch in the act I let her know in no uncertain terms it was not right. I don't hit or scream but made it real clear its a nono. After two months she got it. Except for an accident last week in my daughters room in the middle of the night(where she landed up having to sleep back in her crate)she hasn't had an accident on the carpet. She runs all the way downstairs to her crate and lets us know she did it and should get a treat.
Bottom line, you should get what YOU want and have your pup learn carpet pee is a no no..Good luck!

I know that is one of the reason I dread getting carpet bc of the hassle it is to clean... Pee is so easily hidden on the carpet esp pee from a 4 pound Yorkie!

Well, I can tell you this. I have "fake wood" linoleum in my living room and halls, tile in the bathrooms and kitchen, and carpet in the bedroom. I need to pull the carpet up in OUR bedroom because as much as Mandie will use pee pads, she sometimes misses..off to the side. AND, she has peed on the carpet if I didn't get the pad down in time. :/

I'm going to put down the linoleum in our bedroom until I trust her. Then carpet again.

The other bedrooms, with carpet, are always closed off.

My master bath is a life saver. I have wood everywhere, tile in the kitchen and baths and carpet in the bedrooms. Lexi, goes all the way upstairs to use her favorite pad in the master bath even though there's a pad on every floor. Can you let her go as far as the bathroom to get to her pad when you're not home? Perhaps a gate just past the bathroom that's closest to the bedroom. Or will she get into trouble going that far?

I also really like the linoleum remnant idea if the bathroom won't work. I think we'll need a 3D diagram of your floorplan to figure this all out... LOL

Yes that grout is tricky. I wanted to go with a big tile and a small grout line, the grout we would pick would be dark too.

Peanut is 6 lol I don't know if this habit is just stuck in him. The thing with Peanut is he knows where to go, he can go on his pad or in his dog run outside- which is connected the the house, he goes out of his doggy door. One half of the house he has that and the other he has a pad. Every time I catch a pee spot I bring it up and he runs outside or he runs to his pad and gives me that look!! LOL

It is more frustrating because he isn't a 6 month old puppy that doesn't know- he is a 6 year old dog that knows, but just goes where he wants! LOL

In not a clean freak or anything, but I do love that with hard floors you can actually get them clean. Once you experience that really clean feeling and think about whatever lurks hidden in carpet it can really seem gross.

Does she sleep in your bedroom?

I would go with wood or tile and add a nice plush Turkish rug - a large one- to the master bedroom floor. If peanut wizzes on it you can take it to the cleaners ;) :wink: :winky:

Loll I have the oppsosite taste when it comes to flooring from you, I LOVE laminate wood. We have it throughout here (except tile in kitchen & bathrooms) & we have no rugs, they can't tell the difference. @ our old house b4 we moved here, we had berber carpet upstairs & the boys would make potty mistakes. Had to steam clean it every 6 months. Laminate is so easy to take care of, cinch to clean, I even vacuum it once a week. I like the feeling of it on my bare feet. I wish we had a roomba to clean the floors automatically, but the boys probably won't leave it alone.

So true!! Our floors have been so dirty, drywall dust, texture mud, you name it- it is probably on the floor! The maid was just at our house on Sunday and cleaned the floors.. omg they look so good! When you walk on them you can tell they are clean LOL Love that feeling. It is true with carpet- even when you vacuum you still aren't getting the stuff way under there.

Well when we are gone, he is in the bedroom. I have the gate in the doorway. I also close the master bath door, bc he loves to wizz on the bathroom mats! LOL

Bath mats(and bathrooms in general) are sugar's favorite too!! Must already smell like pee in there :D

Another bonus of all hard floors...... no fleas. I have not had to use flea prevention on my pups for over 2 years after getting rid of carpet.

What does the laminate wood look like?

I agree with the rugs, since Pnut uses his pad- he will use any rug in the house. I have bath mats- I hate walking on cold tile after I shower.. we have to keep the bathroom door shut, or Peanut will use that as his potty pad.

We lived next door to a Yorkie Breeder, well it was her son that lived there. She would come down from AZ and stay with him sometimes. She would bring her puppies.. I was talking to her one day and she told me the problem with pee pads is they won’t know the difference- which at the time I thought was silly. I thought no way they wouldn't know. One pad smells like pee and one doesn't… well turns out she was right LOL

Yes, my husband wouldn't have it any other way. She's right up in bed...under him, usually lol

Good one, mine are not reliable all the time either...:mad: I have wood floors with a good coat of something on them so they won't stain....

I have an area rug in my living room...I sprayed it with that NO stuff...so far so good...today I am taking up the vinyl flooring I installed in their room...I hate it:eek: I'm going to put an area rug that I found at home depot...it has a solid plastic/rubber backing...I am going to spray it with NO....but if they pee on it I have a $100 shampooer always on standby...

I don't think there is an easy answer here, Peanut is Peanut...just find the quickest, less damaging way to handle it...hopefully in time it won't be an issue.

Oh and I'm going to buy one of those rubber backed rugs to put over my area rug for "most days" just in case....

Funny, my girls think bath mats are pee pads too. I don't leave them down, I hang them over the tub after showering.

D, if you look in my pics on this thread, it shows the tile in my kitchen and the Laminate Wood in my living room (in the 3rd or 4th post)

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/my-...given-day.html

It even feels like you can feel the grain of the wood when you walk barefoot :)

Little sinkers! You know what it doesn't. When we moved in our master was broken. We closed it off and used the other bathroom. We just recently fixed it. It has always been closed off. ( Door shut) Never any pee has been in there, unless the previous owners dog went in there. Not sure because they weren't even using the bathroom. Plus when our cleaners came the first time we moved in I had her clean that bathroom and I made her use the pet cleaner for pee and stuff like that.

Ok let me look.

Oh that's a good idea... hang them up.

Does it annoying doing that? Our bathroom is long, it has two sinks. So I have three mats. One at my sink, one at DH's then I have one next to the tub.

I can see the tile, I cant really see the wood.. I like that tile. Too red for me :D but I like it!