How much would you pay for hall and stairs carpet?

malteser

thanks guys, you've all echoed exactly how i feel, we are so close and this is sooooooo petty. My husband wants to offer £100 for the hall, stairs and landing and just wants to get it over with as given the price of the house hes thinking whats a £100 quid in the grand scheme of things. This is true but the cheek of it really bugs me and like some of you said they would probably end up leaving those carpets anyway!
I'll let you know what happens.
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BrightonLad

malteser wrote:

thanks guys, you've all echoed exactly how i feel, we are so close and this is sooooooo petty. My husband wants to offer £100 for the hall, stairs and landing and just wants to get it over with as given the price of the house hes thinking whats a £100 quid in the grand scheme of things. This is true but the cheek of it really bugs me and like some of you said they would probably end up leaving those carpets anyway!
I'll let you know what happens.
m
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No don't pay!!!!

i had the whole of a 3 bed student rental house carpeted for £730 (but is was only 4.99 per sq m and undelay on HSL only)

Tell them to take it all, then buy yourself new carpet - even if its only a temporary one which you could replace in a year or so. you could do it for a lot cheaper that they want for manky old 2nd hand carpet

Sofa_Sogood

malteser wrote:

thanks guys, you've all echoed exactly how i feel, we are so close and this is sooooooo petty. My husband wants to offer £100 for the hall, stairs and landing and just wants to get it over with as given the price of the house hes thinking whats a £100 quid in the grand scheme of things. This is true but the cheek of it really bugs me and like some of you said they would probably end up leaving those carpets anyway!
I'll let you know what happens.
m
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Not sure if it helps but we seemed to be forced into a corner to pay over the odds for carpets and built in fridge etc. Our solicitor suggested offering £50 for the lot, which I thought was a cheek. So we offered a couple of hundred for a manky shed, the carpets (which were nice but were part of the selling price when the buyer bought the house) etc etc.

We ended up paying even more - about £500 more because we just wanted the house anyway. Everything was either slung out or given away within months. I wished I'd stuck to my guns and offered a lot lot less.

Having said that, I walked out of one solicitors office when the sellers asked us to pay 99p for a 99p washing line

I'd have sayed walking too, but they took the hint.

They left the washing line (I was stressed out, I'm not usually that bothered about 99p lol) but they took all the curtains which were supposed to be left. We didn't realise until it got dark

I'd advise to go with your instincts. But I'd never pay that much for 2nd hand carpets.

Good luck

divadee

I wouldnt pay anything for the carpets. But when i sold my old flat, the first sale had fallen through (cos the woman was nuts well and truely) the 2nd people that bought offered a lot less than the asking price but we were desperate to move so we accepted BUT there would be no fixtures and fittings in with that price we accepted ie. carpets, curtains etc...... For that couple it was the principal of the matter as they were being really petty over little things. They accepted this anyway and then pulled out as they couldnt get a mortgage after the agent and them assuring us the mortgage was in place (this was a lie)

I know if they had gone through with it i would of cleared the place out as this couple really wound me up. And then didnt even have the cheek to tell us they had pulled out, just never got in touch with their solicitor or our estate agent again.

Luckily i sold it very quickly after that for the full asking price (much more than 2nd couple offered) and i left everything, incl my cooker and bathroom cabinet etc.... They were such a nice couple with a baby on the way (reminded me of us when we were first starting) and since they have moved in they have done so much work (which we couldnt afford) and really loved the place im so glad i sold to them

Luis

I too would tell them to stuff their carpets!

Firstly, as someone else so rightly pointed out, a hall/stairs/landing carpet is probably going to get ruined anyway with all the trampling about on moving day, or with any work you may have done.

Secondly - having just converted to laminate flooring in the front room, and subsequently commenced the very necessary daily brushing routine - I have started musing on the horror of what must have been lurking in the carpet that was there before that a) certainly didn't get hoovered every day, and b) definitely never looked as dirty as the laminate does. What must be living in a six year old carpet :eek:

Thirdly, stuff 'em the greedy swines.

(ps I haven't got carpet on my H/S/L either - since I moved in Sept 2003 lol - it's on my list of things to do, along with replace hall ceiling, replace kitchen wall..........etc :rotfl: )

Have fun moving!

CashSaver_2

When we bought our house, the vendors wanted us to pay for the fitted gas hob and carpets that were 15 years old. On the basis that he would have to pay a gas engineer to remove the hob and that the carpets were uselss to anyone else, I called their bluff. My solicitor also added that any damage caused in removing these items had to be made good by the vendors.

Don't pay!

Pal

Cashsaver makes a great point. Get your solicitor to tell them that you won't pay for the carpets, but you want them either left intact or removed. If they are removed you want all traces of underlay, gripping rods etc removed as well, and any holes in the floorboards made good.

Ask your solicitor to threaten to decrease your offer by £500 of the purchase price to meet the cost of employing a carpenter to carry out any repairs that arise from their lifting the carpets/remove old grips and underlay etc. You could even decrease your offer by £1000 to replace the carpets that you had assumed were going to be included in the price. Remember it is a buyers market at the moment.

If you are the last link in the chain, speak to the estate agent saying that you are considering pulling out because of their unreasonable demands. Go and visit them and get them to show you their books of other houses on the market that you might be interested. Pretend that you are seriously considering pulling out.

Watch how quickly the estate agent persuades the buyer to throw the carpets in for nothing.

theadore_2

we've just had this exact same thing on our house.... they sent us a list of stuff for sale, including bits of the garden which i found very insulting as it was advertised as a selling feature and i was not happy to find out bits of it would be diappearing. In the end we offered them £150 for the hal stairs and landing carpet which is fair as its quite nice and goes over 3 floors... they came back with £300 and we stuck to our offer. They have agreed, also leaving the contentious water feature in the garden and a freezer and cooker into the bargin, which will go to friends of ours. All worked out in the end

mrcow

theadore wrote:

All worked out in the end

I'm glad you think so, but I still can't help thinking that you've been stiffed for £150 for something that should have been included in the sale anyway, and some second hand appliances that they obviously didn't want :rolleyes:

Even if you think that the carpet is nice, I would argue that they would never have taken it up as stair carpets are a real cow to fit/take up.

I personally think that they have been really cheeky. When we sold our last house, all of our caprets were under 18 months old. I took the ones that would fit into rooms in our new house and left everything that wouldn't have been of much use. Maybe as a fellow MSE'er I should have tried to wring more money out of my buyers, but as gobby as I am, I just don't think I'd have the nerve to upset them (over my old second hand furnishings) when moving meant so much to me.

At least you told them where to put their £300 though

theadore_2

not only that, the only things we were interested in from the original list were 2 blinds a set of curtains, the carpets we bought and 2 bedroom carpets... they asked for £750... ah well.

as this is the first time i've bought a house, i am happy things have worked out... this marketing of goods was never something i considered and many more questions will be asked next time.