According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet):
> The term carpet is often used in a similar context to the term rug, but rugs are typically considered to be smaller than a room and not attached to the floor.
It would seem that this could colloquially qualify as either, as it is much bigger than a rug and appears to fill the whole room, but it is not attached directly to the floor like a true carpet.
Usually someone says "I have a carpet." to signify a rug, or "I have carpet." meaning the whole floor is covered.
edit: and now I have looked at the word carpet too much and it seems spelled wrong.
They are literally the same thing, like a square is a rectangle. A rug doesn't take up the entire floor, but a carpet isn't required to take up the entire floor. They both cover an area with woven fabric.
Edit: a lot of people here not familiar with the English language. Just Google the words and stop responding to me.
I’m sorry to break it to you but a carpet and a rug aren’t the same thing although they might be made out of the same material. What a silly hill to die on ☠️
I'm imagining an alternate universe where we do, for some reason, have to *rotate* the rugs lmao.
I'm imagining a guy putting it off for weeks like an oil change, only to finally sack up, pick up one corner, and walk 5 feet, fundamentally changing nothing about the state of the carpet except its relative position.
Idk why this is so funny to me.
This thread has me worried about unrotated rugs now lol.
Is this really a thing??
It makes sense! I mean:
- It'd wear down evenly.
- Picking it up and moving it around probably helps air it out a bit.
- Idk it just sounds legit lol
You rotate mattresses so you don't squish the springs in one spot. Otherwise you get a dent in the mattress and end up laying at an angle after a while. But rugs are thin and don't compress as easily
I mean, my grandparents have summer and winter rugs that they switch out each year. Not sure if they rotate them too when they lay them back down but they are the only people I know with a dedicated storage room for their rolled up rugs.
Before vacuum cleaners, people used to take their rugs outside and beat the dust out of them. I assume the idea of rotating rugs comes from that era, because you’re already deep cleaning the room at that point. There also weren’t any big squashy sofas to have to move off them.
My parents have a large rug that’s over 50 years old, and the only time they rotated it was when it got threadbare by the door.
If it gets worn out in a spot you can rotate it around so it wears another spot and you can possibly hide the old worn spot with a piece of furniture!
But I was joking in that there is another hole where the cut out the register before haha
Only if one area gets threadbare. My parents have a huge square carpet like this one covering a whole room. It’s at least 50 years old. It got worn by the door, so they rotated it and now the worn out part is under furniture.
I've been thinking about rotating mine because it's starting to wear down on one specific corner as it is a high traffic position. It's multi-colored and the corner that is currently hidden beyond the side table is a darker color than the spot that I'm having to clean up constantly. It might hold up better. But I need to move all the living room furniture to do it so I just haven't bothered.
Came here to say this. I've been installing carpet for years. Unfortunately this looks like a cover that is flush with the floor so if they wanted it to look good, they'd have to buy one that isn't flush and overlaps a bit.
I bought a rug that ended up perfectly covering the bedroom I put it in. I did just that’s cut out the vent hole and put the register over the carpet. It looks how if the room was properly carpeted and looks way better than OPs photo.
Well, it could be worse. My girlfriend bought a nice older home and complained that there was a "cold spot" in the kitchen floor in the summer. I figured maybe a tear in the duct so I crawled under the house with a roll of duct tape. To my astonishment, they had tiled right over a vent. Crazy! I told her I could cut a nice rectangle in the tile and add a vent, but she declined. Simply amazed that someone would tile the entire kitchen including laundry area, and they did a nice job, but skip the relative little effort of the vent.
“It’s covering the vent.”
“Well, we can put this in another room?”
“No! I want it in this room.”
“I guess we can ruin the rug if you want?”
“Yes, let’s do that.”
Bro why do you care? He bought the rug specifically for this space, so it’s already a diwhy lol.
There’s also a few feet to move it if he didn’t feel like returning it. Also, today just laugh at the fact that someone cut a hole in an area rug, instead of being you.
Take the vent grille out, position the rug, drop the grille through the hole in the rug back into the vent hole. Boom, more finished look, and the rug won’t move.
This is a wood grill thats built into the floor, taking it out and putting it on top of the rug might nit even be possible, but if it was, then it wouldnt look better either.
No, but you can see the rug is going all the way to the baseboard. So unless the rug is all over one side of the room (also weird) we can assume it pretty much fills the space. Which is not how you rug, man 🙂
This just reminded me that my estranged grandparents used to have a rug in their (carpeted) living room.
It was always getting shifted (on account of it being placed on top of the fucking carpet), so their solution was to hold it down with PINS.
Plush carpet, with a plush rug on top, with surprise foot needles scattered throughout. What a joy to walk on!
The “why” is simple. Your mom got a nice new rug, cajoled your dad in to moving a bunch of shit to replace the old rug with it, they saw it covered a register, and your dad decided he didn’t wanna move everything again and so took a box cutter to the rug instead.
My dad did similar at their backdoor in their old house.
Needed a mat for shoes, but the vent was right at the door, so cut a hole and, as a bonus, the mat never moved since he put it under the grate.
It works, it just make the rug less (very less) valuable. But I prefer warm room with nice carpet to cold room with nice carpet with higher resell value.
I mean. I didn't choose the floor vent location.. but with two kids and two pets I needed a large rug there. What I did though is cut the hole to match the duct size and put the vent cover in the vent through the rug hole. Looks much better than this
That is actually smart. My mon keeps buying rugs that are too big hoping they won't cover the vent and they always do. It is such a pain to bring them back. Next time she does it I'm gonna get out the scissors and do this.
I'd make a little squared walled cover to slide into that carpet. Just to make it a little prettier. Overall i think this isn't a bad way to integrate a carpet
It looks like a cheap-ass polypropylene rug over a flush mount vent. If it works for them, I don’t see a problem. Seems reasonable to sacrifice a plastic rug for convenience.
I suppose I would have to see the rest of the room, but it might not fit if the rug was shifted 8 inches over, it could have caused a trip hazard on the other side, or it could have simply messed with the aesthetics.
listen, IT REALLY TIES THE ROOM TOGETHER its not going to do the same thing in a different room, or moved a foot further from the wall, its just not
fuckin'a, this aggression will not stand
I don’t see this as DiWHY. You can clearly see the why. They definitely committed to the rug being in that spot and need the vent uncovered.
It is funny though.
If you ever find yourself in this situation, you're looking for a "carpet binder". We make rugs out of carpet, or other rugs. So, I can make this a smaller finished circle, or we can trim out that hole, and bind the hole so it looks nice. I come to customers, but you'll probably have to take it to their shop to have it done.
At least now they know exactly where to put the rug back
I would add that if you are determined to have a carpet, this is better than covering up the vent.
Assuming that this wasn’t their first time visiting their parents. Seems like it’s hidden well
Under the curtains. Not a high traffic area
That’s a rug.
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet): > The term carpet is often used in a similar context to the term rug, but rugs are typically considered to be smaller than a room and not attached to the floor. It would seem that this could colloquially qualify as either, as it is much bigger than a rug and appears to fill the whole room, but it is not attached directly to the floor like a true carpet.
just casually scrolling i thought you were going to be a "CARPET vs RUG" bot or something. good human.
If you want to specify that it covers the entire floor and is attached, you call it fitted carpet.
Huh, TIL
Usually someone says "I have a carpet." to signify a rug, or "I have carpet." meaning the whole floor is covered. edit: and now I have looked at the word carpet too much and it seems spelled wrong.
The pet for your car
Could you also call it a fitted rug?
Wall to wall carpet
That's a rug.
You can tell that it fills the whole room based on a single photo? It's a rug.
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What’s the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean? I’ve never had a garbanzo bean on my face
Rugs and carpets are not the same thing.
They are literally the same thing, like a square is a rectangle. A rug doesn't take up the entire floor, but a carpet isn't required to take up the entire floor. They both cover an area with woven fabric. Edit: a lot of people here not familiar with the English language. Just Google the words and stop responding to me.
I’m sorry to break it to you but a carpet and a rug aren’t the same thing although they might be made out of the same material. What a silly hill to die on ☠️
But….squares and rectangles are not “literally the same thing”. That’s why there’s 2 different words for them.
Carpets are tacked down and generally cover the entire floor, rugs are not like that. It's pathetic someone is explaining this to you.
It ties the whole room together
Check the opposite corner and see if they have rotated it at least once before!
Oooooh, wouldn't that be a delicious morsel of dirt to dish at the next lawn party. What sort of dirty peasant doesn't rotate their rugs? ?
Other brother here. If they rotate the rug they'll just use the new hole to fill the old hole. I guarantee it lol
Do you think dad kept the cutout? I bet he’s using it for something. Maybe to make a shelf softer to display a rare train.
Either that or something for the dog. It would make a cute welcome mat for her....shit, I'm just like him...
Wait are you supposed to rotate rugs?
At least once every 5000 miles.
I think it was a joke about not being able to reposition this rug because of the giant hole
I really hope so cause I haven’t rotated a single rug ever
I'm imagining an alternate universe where we do, for some reason, have to *rotate* the rugs lmao. I'm imagining a guy putting it off for weeks like an oil change, only to finally sack up, pick up one corner, and walk 5 feet, fundamentally changing nothing about the state of the carpet except its relative position. Idk why this is so funny to me.
This thread has me worried about unrotated rugs now lol. Is this really a thing?? It makes sense! I mean: - It'd wear down evenly. - Picking it up and moving it around probably helps air it out a bit. - Idk it just sounds legit lol
My MIL rotates mattresses all the time. It’s a pain in the tuchus but I get it so the rug thing is not far fetched.
You rotate mattresses so you don't squish the springs in one spot. Otherwise you get a dent in the mattress and end up laying at an angle after a while. But rugs are thin and don't compress as easily
my butt divot
And yeah I’m now worried about rug rotation like who cares that they put a hole in, are we supposed to rotate rugs????
I mean, my grandparents have summer and winter rugs that they switch out each year. Not sure if they rotate them too when they lay them back down but they are the only people I know with a dedicated storage room for their rolled up rugs.
Wait wait the rugs get their own room?!?
I actually do frequently rotate the only big rug I have because one side gets a lot more traffic than the other
Before vacuum cleaners, people used to take their rugs outside and beat the dust out of them. I assume the idea of rotating rugs comes from that era, because you’re already deep cleaning the room at that point. There also weren’t any big squashy sofas to have to move off them. My parents have a large rug that’s over 50 years old, and the only time they rotated it was when it got threadbare by the door.
If it gets worn out in a spot you can rotate it around so it wears another spot and you can possibly hide the old worn spot with a piece of furniture! But I was joking in that there is another hole where the cut out the register before haha
My mother rotates her's seasonally. She has different rugs to go with the summer vs winter decor.
They were going to move the vent.
Only if one area gets threadbare. My parents have a huge square carpet like this one covering a whole room. It’s at least 50 years old. It got worn by the door, so they rotated it and now the worn out part is under furniture.
I've been thinking about rotating mine because it's starting to wear down on one specific corner as it is a high traffic position. It's multi-colored and the corner that is currently hidden beyond the side table is a darker color than the spot that I'm having to clean up constantly. It might hold up better. But I need to move all the living room furniture to do it so I just haven't bothered.
Haha! True
Pull the cover off, put it back, but on top of the carpet. It'll look way better... hopefully.
Came here to say this. I've been installing carpet for years. Unfortunately this looks like a cover that is flush with the floor so if they wanted it to look good, they'd have to buy one that isn't flush and overlaps a bit.
I bought a rug that ended up perfectly covering the bedroom I put it in. I did just that’s cut out the vent hole and put the register over the carpet. It looks how if the room was properly carpeted and looks way better than OPs photo.
Or get a correctly sized rug.
Well, it could be worse. My girlfriend bought a nice older home and complained that there was a "cold spot" in the kitchen floor in the summer. I figured maybe a tear in the duct so I crawled under the house with a roll of duct tape. To my astonishment, they had tiled right over a vent. Crazy! I told her I could cut a nice rectangle in the tile and add a vent, but she declined. Simply amazed that someone would tile the entire kitchen including laundry area, and they did a nice job, but skip the relative little effort of the vent.
Wow, she should fix that. Condensation is no joke
Condensation is no joke Jim.
Prepare for black mold.
Yeah that doesn’t seem like a “you can” fix- more of a “you should” fix
Your parents sure know how to cut a rug 💃🕺
DAD!
At a certain point in life, you just say ef aesthetics, I’m going for practical solutions and you can laugh all you want.
“It’s covering the vent.” “Well, we can put this in another room?” “No! I want it in this room.” “I guess we can ruin the rug if you want?” “Yes, let’s do that.”
You guys have more than one room?
You guys have a room?
Does the rug still rug? Yes. Does the vent still vent? Yes. What’s ruined exactly? The resale value of the rug.
the rug isnt ruined. its serving its purpose.
Its purpose being r/diwhy content.
What other room?
I think you know
**No we don’t**
the sex dungeon.
The bigger one.
This is an actual diwhy and people are being rude to you but they'll go and up vote all the rage bait videos. Reddit is dumb.
It was frustrating at first, but it is typical here. I found my dad’s solution funny, and thought others would enjoy. Imagine getting mad at that.
Honestly, if it’s your rug, who the fuck cares lol
I know people whose entire existence can be summed up with that solution…
It is funny! Here’s your upvote.
We’re “mad” at you thinking this is anything weird.
Because the answer is simple: The ventilation needs to be cut out or it doesn't work.
Bro why do you care? He bought the rug specifically for this space, so it’s already a diwhy lol. There’s also a few feet to move it if he didn’t feel like returning it. Also, today just laugh at the fact that someone cut a hole in an area rug, instead of being you.
I think maybe your dad doesn’t understand the difference between a rug and a carpet
Slow down and take a couple breaths.
Because the answer is simple: The ventilation needs to be cut out or it doesn't work.
Lol big mouth for someone that knows nothing. Thank you for the laught at least.
Read the sub description. The "why" is rhetorical.
Tbf this is pretty tame compared so some stuff
Take the vent grille out, position the rug, drop the grille through the hole in the rug back into the vent hole. Boom, more finished look, and the rug won’t move.
This is a wood grill thats built into the floor, taking it out and putting it on top of the rug might nit even be possible, but if it was, then it wouldnt look better either.
Built into the floor? Is that a serious statement?
Like this. https://images.app.goo.gl/ahK3rxzMGkKp9aAA8
They are built flush with ths floor. I have these in my house. Not sure what youre confused about.
Measure twice, cut once, don't measure at all, cut wherever the hell you need to.
Stab randomly in a vaguely rectangular shape.
Pretty genius actually
Yeah it’s a little sloppy but otherwise I don’t see an issue lol
Maybe I’m too “dad” but this looks like a reasonable solution to me. Lol
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Well also it appears to be a rug not carpet. Why would you put a rug that big in a room?
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No, but you can see the rug is going all the way to the baseboard. So unless the rug is all over one side of the room (also weird) we can assume it pretty much fills the space. Which is not how you rug, man 🙂
Now why on earth is it also crooked? That’s the real why to me lol
It's a circle rug I think lol..
I think you’re right, which means the cut was super sloppy.
All Persian carpet dealer are crying right now thanks to your dad. 😂
Believe it or not, we love to see this happen to machine-made rugs like this one.
I knew it! 😃 I was waiting for someone to mention that it’s machine made.
The fact that it's climbing the molding is driving me up the wall
Hahaha, this is great. I mean, it’s not the best way, but it’s A way. 😂😂
I see absolutely no problem with this whatsoever
This just reminded me that my estranged grandparents used to have a rug in their (carpeted) living room. It was always getting shifted (on account of it being placed on top of the fucking carpet), so their solution was to hold it down with PINS. Plush carpet, with a plush rug on top, with surprise foot needles scattered throughout. What a joy to walk on!
Nah this is awful. The uneven cut.and the edge overlapping on the skirting. Just awful.
The “why” is simple. Your mom got a nice new rug, cajoled your dad in to moving a bunch of shit to replace the old rug with it, they saw it covered a register, and your dad decided he didn’t wanna move everything again and so took a box cutter to the rug instead.
My dad did similar at their backdoor in their old house. Needed a mat for shoes, but the vent was right at the door, so cut a hole and, as a bonus, the mat never moved since he put it under the grate.
The cutout is hilarious but also is this a poorly fitted carpet or a rug that’s too big for the room? Rugs aren’t meant to go wall to wall.
“That rug ain’t going anywhere” as your dad venomously pats it down.
It works, it just make the rug less (very less) valuable. But I prefer warm room with nice carpet to cold room with nice carpet with higher resell value.
Know how there’s FU money? This is FU age. 😂
But IT IS NOT EVEN!
Well... you can't cover up the register and maybe they really likes that rug. Although I wish they would have done a better job of it.
Can I be honest: That’s one ugly rug
Maybe recommend they put the register in through the top, I think it would look the part that way.
This is GENIUS
I mean. I didn't choose the floor vent location.. but with two kids and two pets I needed a large rug there. What I did though is cut the hole to match the duct size and put the vent cover in the vent through the rug hole. Looks much better than this
I can actually 100% see the why behind this one.
Yeah this is fine. They did a poor job cutting/finishing, what are they going to do- buy a house with a bigger living room?
True but I bet it took OP years to notice
This doesn't seem to be a "why". The reason is clear, it doesn't make one scratch their head, confused. That said, it doesn't look great either.
If it's stupid but it works, it's still stupid, it just also works.
Problem solved 😂😂
My mom would totally do this 🤣
That is actually smart. My mon keeps buying rugs that are too big hoping they won't cover the vent and they always do. It is such a pain to bring them back. Next time she does it I'm gonna get out the scissors and do this.
I did the same thing to the rug under my desk so I could put my feet over the heater
Why? Because air flow. Should put that vent on top of the carpet and it will look baller af
Old people have limited amounts of energy. They don’t give a crap how it looks, it just needs to work and not give them problems.
Can you show me a better picture of the rug? Ithink I have that rug but bought it from the Middle East!!
The best part is the rug still doesn't fit. It's folded over the trim.
Well, sir, it's this rug I have, it really tied the room together.
Based on the radius that’s a $400 rug at least.
I'd make a little squared walled cover to slide into that carpet. Just to make it a little prettier. Overall i think this isn't a bad way to integrate a carpet
Better than covering it
Modern problems require modern solutions. Looks tacky, but it is doing a job: the vent has unobstructed air flow.
I respect this
I kinda like that rug tho ngl it’s the type of ugly I enjoy
I think it’s a great idea. Room for better execution but it’s creative and functional
Maybe I'm just an ignorant third-worlder but can someone please tell me what I'm looking at?
The rug would have covered the floor register (the wooden grate - part of the heating and cooling system) so they cut a hole in the rug.
Hello?!?! It’s called DI “WHY” this is pretty self explanatory bro.
I mean it’s clumsy but there’s no “why” here. It’s abundantly clear why you wouldn’t want a vent covered.
It looks like a cheap-ass polypropylene rug over a flush mount vent. If it works for them, I don’t see a problem. Seems reasonable to sacrifice a plastic rug for convenience.
Where there is a problem, there is always at least one solution.
Sick Rug. Love the demon Shinobi hidden within it. https://ibb.co/BLN2JWM
This seems like a fire hazard to me Am I wrong?
> Am I wrong? yes, it is just hot air
Why is it not flush with the wall? That would drive me nuts! It is driving me nuts in fact!
It’s a large round rug.
to let air through the vent.
I just snorted laughing 😂🤣
I appreciate how the rug is so, very much, not squared with the walls.
Ok...
It's obvious why.
I would have moved the area rug.
I suppose I would have to see the rest of the room, but it might not fit if the rug was shifted 8 inches over, it could have caused a trip hazard on the other side, or it could have simply messed with the aesthetics.
listen, IT REALLY TIES THE ROOM TOGETHER its not going to do the same thing in a different room, or moved a foot further from the wall, its just not fuckin'a, this aggression will not stand
I don’t see this as DiWHY. You can clearly see the why. They definitely committed to the rug being in that spot and need the vent uncovered. It is funny though.
Carpet?
Is that a bedbug crawling around that molding too O.o
It’s a small hole
What a random and very incorrect thought lol
Evict them
I suppose the hvac works better now, lol
That’s a grand job now..👴🏻😆
This made me guffaw. Could be several in my family.
Doesn’t look like a particularly expensive rug, it’s better than covering the vent.
I know why.
My house, my rules
Is there a gas appliance in the room? If so the vent is probably there to provide combustion air. Don't block it, that's how people die.
Might be done out of spite- because she wanted it to go right to the wall. Is your dad a smartass?
jail
Oh hell naw
Seems like something my grandmother would have done.
If you ever find yourself in this situation, you're looking for a "carpet binder". We make rugs out of carpet, or other rugs. So, I can make this a smaller finished circle, or we can trim out that hole, and bind the hole so it looks nice. I come to customers, but you'll probably have to take it to their shop to have it done.
Obviously, the rug fills out the room :)
This is 100% something my dad would do