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Type of flooring in rental property
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As a tenant would you prefer oak parquet flooring down stairs and stripped floorboards upstairs/carpet throughout/combination of the two?
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Carpets throughout.It's someone else's fault.0
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Depends who house is for. With four kids I would prefer wood/easy clean throughout and not to have to worry about carpets. If it was just me and my man I wuold like carpet upstairs.
MeganMay GC - £100 per week
Week 1 - £120/£100 :eek:, Week 2 £110/100:o, Week 3 £110/£100:mad:, Week 4 £50/100Week 5
DFW - March '13 - c/c £5600, April £4500, May £2500 :T0 -
The wooden floors downstairs (easier to keep clean) but carpet upstairs, as it can be noisy when someone is walking about upstairs, (particularly children playing in bedrooms) and it is cosier and more inducive to sleeping to have carpets in bedrooms. No carpet in the bathroom, though, please! Yuck!0
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No carpets, I'd prefer to bring my own rugs, which make it "more like home" and easier to ensure it was as clean when I left as when I arrived.0
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I like hard floors down stairs, except maybe the lounge, and carpet upstairs.0
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I'd prefer a combination, hard floors downstairs and carpet upstairs. Hard floors are easier to clean for rooms like the kitchen and dining room and high traffic areas like hallways, while carpet is warmer for bedrooms.0
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Eton_Rifle wrote: »Carpets are easier to replace when the tenant wrecks your flooring.
Why assume that the tenant will wreck anything? The vast majority are just as (if not more) careful as an owner/occupier. Anyway, isn't that what the deposit is for?
Hard wood floors are easier to maintain and more forgiving of spills etc. If you go for carpets, then a darker carpet is preferable to cream!:hello:0 -
Parquet flooring can be difficult to maintain if there are spillages on it - the liquid can seep down and cause the wood blocks to expand / lift. If you go with parquet, make sure it is appropriately treated to withstand moisture.0
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I'd like carpet upstairs for comfort/warmth and not really going to get dirty.
Hard flooring downstairs, easier to keep clean0 -
Hardwearing carpet with a mottled grey pattern that doesn't show the dirt and can be shampooed every few years.
Solid flooring is cold, noisy and slippery, and most laminates don't actually wear very well.
However my lovely lady landlady has given me plain peach carpets throughout :-(.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0
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