Re-carpet or leave bare floorboards?

witchy1066

GoldenShadow wrote: »

I would rather see messy floorboards than old carpet. I really, really dislike carpet though! I intend to never have any carpet

same here,

I would rather have floorboards , messy or not , but you will be surprised how many houses we have looked at and the floorboards (I always look) have never seen daylight, so are like new

beecher2

The house has floorboards - seem to be in good condition from what I've seen so far.

I agree with you moneyistooshorttomention and you sum up the two arguments for and against well, I just keep swinging between the two points of view!

Time for a family conference I think and a final decision once the house has been completely cleared and painted.

Thanks for all your thoughts.

SternMusik

This is probably not going to help, but I dislike carpets and bare floorboards equally The former for reasons of cleaning/hygiene and the latter because of poor insulation, draughts, and spiders crawling in through the gaps :eek:

I am saving up to have good quality solid wood flooring put in everywhere in my house except kitchen and bathrooms (where I have opted for Marmoleum in absolutely gorgeous colours).

As a buyer I'd prefer bare floorboards (so I can see the state of them) to cheap/nasty carpets. Worst case would be the seller fitting expensive carpets costing thousands, and expecting me to pay for them in my offer, when I will only proceed to have them removed in the near future.