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Vaibow vancouver/croydon 23 Aug 18 1.16am
I think guests should always ask if they want shoes off or on... rather than assume This was once a quality forum....
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I think guests should always ask if they want shoes off or on... rather than assume

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doi209 Fighting for the weak and innocent... 23 Aug 18 1.27am
Definitley off. We have natural slate ( up and downstairs ) throughout that can easily be washed clean. However, still shoes off always ( underfloor heating helps ).
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Fighting for the weak and innocent... 23 Aug 18 1.27am

Definitley off.
We have natural slate ( up and downstairs ) throughout that can easily be washed clean. However, still shoes off always ( underfloor heating helps ).

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Harry Beever Newbury 23 Aug 18 6.59am
If you want them to take their shoes off I’d just ask them to do it when they arrive. What seems obvious and normal to you and most people on this thread might not be to them. I don’t take my shoes off or expect people to but I have cheap sh1t carpets.
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Newbury 23 Aug 18 6.59am

If you want them to take their shoes off I’d just ask them to do it when they arrive. What seems obvious and normal to you and most people on this thread might not be to them. I don’t take my shoes off or expect people to but I have cheap sh1t carpets.

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Midlands Eagle 23 Aug 18 7.59am
Perhaps it's a class thing applicable to the lower classes and their filthy shoes. A few decades ago I accompanied my father to Buckingham Palace when he received a medal and neither of us were required to remove our shoes and from memory The Queen was wearing her shoes too
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Perhaps it's a class thing applicable to the lower classes and their filthy shoes.

A few decades ago I accompanied my father to Buckingham Palace when he received a medal and neither of us were required to remove our shoes and from memory The Queen was wearing her shoes too

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manwitheagletattoo Somewhere in England 23 Aug 18 8.22am
Originally posted by Harry Beever If you want them to take their shoes off I’d just ask them to do it when they arrive. What seems obvious and normal to you and most people on this thread might not be to them. I don’t take my shoes off or expect people to but I have cheap sh1t carpets. it’s not as simple as that. Whether you have cheap carpets or not. There is a thing called respect and I’m afraid to say it a dying word and action nowadays. South London & Proud Sometimes I really wonder if family are really worth it. Because it doesn’t matter how time and affection you give It’s never enough
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Originally posted by Harry Beever

it’s not as simple as that. Whether you have cheap carpets or not. There is a thing called respect and I’m afraid to say it a dying word and action nowadays.

South London & Proud
Sometimes I really wonder if family are really worth it.
Because it doesn’t matter how time and affection you give
It’s never enough

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kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 23 Aug 18 10.45am
i always ask customers when i visit homes to price work. If we work in the home we install temp.plastic covers or the corrugated thin plastic to hard or carpeted floors as you cant work in bare feet/ socks going up steps etc. also puts the customer at ease. However if I have trades working in my gaff I usually protect floors myself as I dont trust the buggers to do anymore than sling a grubby dust sheet down. Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents? Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.
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i always ask customers when i visit homes to price work.
If we work in the home we install temp.plastic covers or the corrugated thin plastic to hard or carpeted floors as you cant work in bare feet/ socks going up steps etc.
also puts the customer at ease.
However if I have trades working in my gaff I usually protect floors myself as I dont trust the buggers to do anymore than sling a grubby dust sheet down.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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Vaibow vancouver/croydon 24 Aug 18 5.48am
Originally posted by Midlands Eagle Perhaps it's a class thing applicable to the lower classes and their filthy shoes. A few decades ago I accompanied my father to Buckingham Palace when he received a medal and neither of us were required to remove our shoes and from memory The Queen was wearing her shoes too lol and did the queen make you a cuppa and offer you a few chocolate bourbons? Please don't use royalty as the example. My grandparents were wealthy, old money - they wore leather slippers around the house - they never asked people to take shoes off, but when you walk into their house you couldn't help but want to take your shoes off. Now, i live out in canada now and everyone takes shoes off, i found it weird, as we rarely did it in the uk or at least in my circle. I know this sounds contradictory.. but when my family came over and walked in with shoes on, i did find it weird. I guess on informal occasions, shoes off... formal and on but to conclude, i always feel it is the guest responsibility to ask 'shoes on or off' as a matter of courtesy This was once a quality forum....
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Perhaps it's a class thing applicable to the lower classes and their filthy shoes.

A few decades ago I accompanied my father to Buckingham Palace when he received a medal and neither of us were required to remove our shoes and from memory The Queen was wearing her shoes too

lol and did the queen make you a cuppa and offer you a few chocolate bourbons? Please don't use royalty as the example.

My grandparents were wealthy, old money - they wore leather slippers around the house - they never asked people to take shoes off, but when you walk into their house you couldn't help but want to take your shoes off.

Now, i live out in canada now and everyone takes shoes off, i found it weird, as we rarely did it in the uk or at least in my circle. I know this sounds contradictory.. but when my family came over and walked in with shoes on, i did find it weird.

I guess on informal occasions, shoes off... formal and on but to conclude, i always feel it is the guest responsibility to ask 'shoes on or off' as a matter of courtesy

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manoftaste Hastings 24 Aug 18 7.03am
Never mind shoes on the carpet - what about people who put their feet (with shoes on) on the seats in trains? Every journey I see it (mainly, but not exclusively, with younger people). One guy sitting opposite me a while back put his feet up on the seat next to me. I asked him to take them down and he couldn't see the problem. I asked the Guard the other evening what the rail company's policy is on this. He said if he asked people not to put their feet on the seats he'd be in a confrontation on every trip so he now ignores it.
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Hastings 24 Aug 18 7.03am

Never mind shoes on the carpet - what about people who put their feet (with shoes on) on the seats in trains? Every journey I see it (mainly, but not exclusively, with younger people). One guy sitting opposite me a while back put his feet up on the seat next to me. I asked him to take them down and he couldn't see the problem.
I asked the Guard the other evening what the rail company's policy is on this. He said if he asked people not to put their feet on the seats he'd be in a confrontation on every trip so he now ignores it.

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kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 24 Aug 18 7.55am
Originally posted by manoftaste Never mind shoes on the carpet - what about people who put their feet (with shoes on) on the seats in trains? Every journey I see it (mainly, but not exclusively, with younger people). One guy sitting opposite me a while back put his feet up on the seat next to me. I asked him to take them down and he couldn't see the problem. I asked the Guard the other evening what the rail company's policy is on this. He said if he asked people not to put their feet on the seats he'd be in a confrontation on every trip so he now ignores it. totally agree. all round bad behaviour and poor form. no respect for others and themselves. Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents? Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.
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Sussex, ex-Cronx. 24 Aug 18 7.55am

Originally posted by manoftaste

totally agree.
all round bad behaviour and poor form.
no respect for others and themselves.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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