renting from housing association - their obligations??

fabforty

Not having carpets does not make a house unfit to live in.

Arachne_2

No carpets provided by my HA either!

Housing_Benefit_Officer

I was shocked to learn that they also fail to provide 80 inch flat screen HD 3D TVs with surround sound and an X-Box in each bedroom as standard. Surely this is a breach of the Human Rights Act?

Morglin

To be honest, I wouldn't want the carpets supplied, as the previous tenants might not have been too clean, or might have had pets..:eek:

Most of them don't supply anything or decorate, and no reason why they should.

The only HA or council properties that might be carpeted are Sheltered housing for elderly, as, at one time, it was pretty standard for it to be supplied.

Lin

Poppie68

The HA won't supply the carpets but she can try her council website or give them a ring and enquire after a local welfare package.

seven-day-weekend

Since we took our carpets up upstairs (haven't had them downstairs for years) and decided to expose the original floorboards, I realised would never again have a fitted carpet. All the dust that can be whisked away with a broom on the floorboards would just sink into the carpet and I don't think any amount of hoovering could get it all out. You can't see it for a start. And I don't even want to start thinking about what might be living in it.......:eek:

skitler

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Since we took our carpets up upstairs (haven't had them downstairs for years) and decided to expose the original floorboards, I realised would never again have a fitted carpet. All the dust that can be whisked away with a broom on the floorboards would just sink into the carpet and I don't think any amount of hoovering could get it all out. You can't see it for a start. And I don't even want to start thinking about what might be living in it.......:eek:

and the tea towel rugs, what about them?:rotfl:

seven-day-weekend

skitler wrote: »

and the tea towel rugs, what about them?:rotfl:

They can go in the washing machine

Poppie68

Not everyone has floorboards downstairs though... When i saw this thread it was spooky as over the last few days my friend and myself have been helping a young single mum with the same issue. She has been given a HA in the last week and has nothing at all. We helped her fill in an online application for a local welfare package and has been awarded carpets and white goods. She has a young baby who has just started crawling and the floors are in no state for a baby. Concrete floors downstairs which apart from being dangerous also produces dust and manky splintered floorboards upstairs.

seven-day-weekend

I have laminate downstairs as most of the floors there are concrete.

However, I agree that if there is such as thing as a welfare package she should apply.

Otherwise, cheap rugs as I have mentioned until such time as she can get alternative floor covering.