My building room has 35 year old carpet in it. The carpet has glow fuel spills, epoxy and CA spills, countless screws and parts and more hiding in the pile. The fuel spills are a real problem because they create a very stubborn odor. I would love for the carpet to be gone and have a cheap linoleum floor or something that would be easier to clean. But I'm not sure a hard floor would make finding tiny parts any easier because they would bounce away.

So if you stay with the carpet, let me make a suggestion that makes finding the tiny screws and other metal items easy as pie. Get the biggest rare earth magnet you can find. Every time I drop a screw or small piece of music wire into the carpet, I reach for the big magnet on the side of my workbench, sweep it across the carpet and pick the part off the magnet.

Dave