Making the house saleable the DFW way

Mrs_Arkwright

We're currently doing up the house ready to put it on the market.

Our two bedrooms, plus the landing and stairs have the oldest carpet known to man on them. I'm in the middle of giving them a good shampoo, but they're still raggedy and threadbare. The floorboards underneath are rubbish so not really good enough to strip (plus we want to move asap).

Bearing in mind we are skint, would it be worth purchasing new carpets just to sell the house? Or should we just go with giving the existing ones a good clean up and let the new owners decide what to do with them? Would it really put people off?

Please excuse if there's any typos - scrubbing a carpet with a 90 year old Vax is a tough job and my arm feels like it belongs to Popeye.

Any advice welcome

Mike_St_Helens

Now im an expert at this ! I bought the terrace house I live in 2 years ago for 40k, its now worth 70 and spent around 12k on it !

It has now a new fitted kitchen, bathroom, GCH etc etc etc ....

Tell me the problems, ill try and point you in the right direction.

I lay a mean laminate floor, fit a great kitchen and can tile till the cows are home... and im a puff ! ooops... I can do all for free in return for an expertise favour from anyone ! (educational, vocational etc et not the naughty thing !):rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

And Mrs A... Why havent you posted on my thread about our plans...

Mike
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jessicamb

I'm no expert - well ok then an armchair expert from watching too many property programmes on the tellybox.

With the carpet in the current condition would you buy it (being objective)? If they are really rubbish it might be worth getting a cheap new carpet to sell quicker/get closer to the asking price.

Mrs_Arkwright

Mike_St_Helens wrote:

Now im an expert at this ! I bought the terrace house I live in 2 years ago for 40k, its now worth 70 and spent around 12k on it !

It has now a new fitted kitchen, bathroom, GCH etc etc etc ....

Tell me the problems, ill try and point you in the right direction.

I lay a mean laminate floor, fit a great kitchen and can tile till the cows are home... and im a puff ! ooops... I can do all for free in return for an expertise favour from anyone ! (educational, vocational etc et not the naughty thing !):rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

And Mrs A... Why havent you posted on my thread about our plans...

Mike
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We've done the bathroom and central heating (Mr A is a plumber) - it's really just cosmetic things that need doing - the carpets is the main sticking point though.

Chrismojam

Ooh I'd welcome any DFW ways of doing up the house aswell...and a good kick up the !!!!!!!! (we said we'd have the house ready to put on the market by June.....back in Feb:o ) and its not much further on since then!

Unfortunately, there is a fair bit that needs doing that's gonna cost as we are neither qualified electricians, builders or plasterers:p and though a few people we know have these 'in the family' they just don't bother turning up...

I was thinking about the carpet issue aswell.....the carpets we have left a crap........varnished floor boards in the living room which look ok....but not in the back room which links.....so I was thinking of going for a cheapish but not nasty carpet right the way through.........bear in mind that I haven't worked out how much that would cost..........so that could very well put me off the idea:p

Mrs_Arkwright

jessicamb wrote:

I'm no expert - well ok then an armchair expert from watching too many property programmes on the tellybox.

With the carpet in the current condition would you buy it (being objective)? If they are really rubbish it might be worth getting a cheap new carpet to sell quicker/get closer to the asking price.

I think if I'm honest, the bedroom ones we can get away with, but the landing and stairs is a bit dire. But we really don't want to spend out any money unnecessarily, as we just don't have any. We have quite a large landing, plus the little hallway bit by the front door, so it's not even something we could get away with by using offcuts or whatever. Oh I wish DIY SOS would come round.

Mike_St_Helens

You can laminate a room for around 80quid, decorate one for 20 quid...

If your OH is a plumber then he is used to getting stuck in.. as it were,... he CAN lay a laminate floor... If you are 20miles +/- St Helens, then ill do it free for ya !

Mrs_Arkwright

Chrismojam wrote:

Ooh I'd welcome any DFW ways of doing up the house aswell...and a good kick up the !!!!!!!! (we said we'd have the house ready to put on the market by June.....back in Feb:o ) and its not much further on since then!

Have every sympathy with you here - we have been planning on moving since 2002, and have kept saying 'ooo we'll have it on the market in three months'. I have told Mr A that if we are still in this godforsaken hole at Christmas then he can live here on his own and I am moving out, and I'm only half-joking.

Mike_St_Helens

Stairs, strip em and varnish em.... 20 quid ! and look FAB

Mrs_Arkwright

Mike_St_Helens wrote:

You can laminate a room for around 80quid, decorate one for 20 quid...

If your OH is a plumber then he is used to getting stuck in.. as it were,... he CAN lay a laminate floor... If you are 20miles +/- St Helens, then ill do it free for ya !

That's very kind, but we're miles away! Our floorboards are too wonky to take a laminate floor apparently. Walking round our house is like going mountaineering.

Mike_St_Helens

Ooo dear its all uphill then !!