# Why are beds elevated?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 22, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-beds-elevated/613632 "2012-02-22T15:51:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-beds-elevated/613632/44 "2012-02-23T15:33:16Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> > [@Pleonast](#):
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> > That’s a quirk of your heating system. With hypocaustic heat, the floor is warm and cozy. In Korea, most homes have hypocaustic heat and most people sleep on the floor. Bedding is folded up every morning, so space and cleanliness is not an issue. Of course, they also generally keep their homes’ floors much cleaner than most Westerners do.
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> Those of us who do not have carpeting disagree with your last sentence.

Well, I’m open to being corrected. Do you not wear shoes indoors, so to not track outside dirt inside? Do the bathrooms have slippers, so to not track bathroom dirt to the rest of the home? Are floors wiped with a damp cloth daily? Because that is what many Koreans do (or at least the ones I know).

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