Hanging house in the Southwest Palatinate - Our House Construction 2.0

I can then argue it,

It is your house after all, so it should also be your rules. I would never even think about finding reasons why shoes need to be taken off at my place.. But with us, it is exactly like the part quoted below..

I absolutely don’t know anyone in my circle of friends/family/acquaintances who ever wears their shoes inside the apartment.

I never had to tell someone to take off their shoes. Even craftsmen ask if they should take them off, and I always give them shoe covers then.

It's not just about hygiene. None of the guests will clean up afterward if the dirt is spread all over the house. And apart from that... I don't want the dirt on the new parquet floor either.

I never had to tell anyone to take off their shoes. Even craftsmen ask if they should take them off, and I always give them shoe covers.

What kind of shoe covers do you have there? I should get some too. Upstairs we have a light carpet, so craftsmen also have to take off their shoes. But depending on the job, that’s not always possible (keyword safety shoes) or maybe some are not prepared for it and feel uncomfortable (keyword smelly feet after a long workday). Shoe covers would be a great option there.

We don't wipe anything here with Sagrotan, you can usually eat from our floor and get full, and yet we don't wear shoes inside... I think street dirt is something completely different from a few grasses from your own garden, baby drool, or crumb hands.

Besides, it's super uncomfortable to wear shoes in the house, you can't really lounge properly on the sofa. Unless you bring your shoes onto the sofa... I don't want to imagine that.

You speak from my soul.

What kind of covers do you have there? I should get some too. Upstairs we have light carpet, so craftsmen have to take off their shoes. But depending on the work, that's not always possible (keyword safety shoes) or maybe some aren't prepared for it and feel uncomfortable (keyword smelly feet after a long day at work). Covers would be a great option there.

There are such plastic covers with elastic bands, we bought them for house viewings in the old house as well. But most people also took off their shoes without being asked. Just search for "shoe covers" in the shop of your choice.

Shoes inside the house are absolutely not allowed here. We even wipe the dog's paws before entering. The exception: visits from craftsmen. You usually have to clean afterwards anyway. We also have shoe covers for laboratory visitors, and I’m the unlucky one as the health and safety officer who has to order them and therefore knows more about these things than I could have ever dreamed.

The very simple, cheap covers are extremely slippery and are not approved for use in a professional context for safety reasons. The slip-resistant ones are expensive. So we clean.

Conclusion: you have to die one death.

But depending on the work, that is not possible at all (keyword safety shoes)

We had that once too. At some point a new chimney sweep came along, or rather it was a woman, and she said she would rather go on the roof than sweep over openings in the cellar like her colleagues before her. But I didn’t feel like her walking over the wooden stairs, over the parquet on the upper floor into the attic, and there over the light carpet. She didn’t want to take off her shoes because they were safety shoes. I gave her the choice: either she takes them off, walks like her colleagues over the tiles in the cellar and may exceptionally keep the shoes on there, or she leaves without doing anything and I call her boss. She chose "shoes off," but on subsequent visits she always wore shoe covers in the cellar (though with my neighbors she went without).