Damaged Carpet

ultimatedingbat

Hello!
We've lived in a rental house for two years now. Last night my partner knocked my straightners onto the carpet and left a nice burn.
The carpet itself was already soiled and damaged when we moved in.
We are debating costing up replacing it ourselves vs what the landlord might take of our deposit. Thoughts?

marksoton

ultimatedingbat wrote: »

Thoughts?

Live with curls.......

HappyMJ

ultimatedingbat wrote: »

Hello!
We've lived in a rental house for two years now. Last night my partner knocked my straightners onto the carpet and left a nice burn.
The carpet itself was already soiled and damaged when we moved in.
We are debating costing up replacing it ourselves vs what the landlord might take of our deposit. Thoughts?

If it was already damaged beyond economical repair...i.e had a value of zero when you moved in then it's not going to have any value to the landlord now whatever state it's in.

Soiled carpet can be cleaned and will still have value. If it's been damaged through normal wear and tear over many years then it's worth nothing. If the damage is localized from a previous tenant then the remainder of the carpet may still have value.

Saying that though carpet isn't that expensive. If you can get it cheap enough I'd just replace it myself with the same or similar.

ultimatedingbat

HappyMJ wrote: »

If it was already damaged beyond economical repair...i.e had a value of zero when you moved in then it's not going to have any value to the landlord now whatever state it's in.

Soiled carpet can be cleaned and will still have value. If it's been damaged through normal wear and tear over many years then it's worth nothing. If the damage is localized from a previous tenant then the remainder of the carpet may still have value.

Saying that though carpet isn't that expensive. If you can get it cheap enough I'd just replace it myself with the same or similar.

Hi HappyMJ

It was very much damaged before moving in, the carpet itself is practically threadbare and there was a massive brown stain in the middle of the floor underneath where her bed used to be (we only know it was a bed as when we visited he still had to get rid of it)

The same far as we can see we can't find, but we have found some nice cheap at 2.99 per sq m.

Woul;d we need landlords permission?

ultimatedingbat

Maybe not economical...Advertised price on the 'cheap' carpet is about £162

HappyMJ

ultimatedingbat wrote: »

Hi HappyMJ

It was very much damaged before moving in, the carpet itself is practically threadbare and there was a massive brown stain in the middle of the floor underneath where her bed used to be (we only know it was a bed as when we visited he still had to get rid of it)

The same far as we can see we can't find, but we have found some nice cheap at 2.99 per sq m.

Woul;d we need landlords permission?

It's very unlikely you will be charged anything if the carpet is threadbare. If you are you can dispute the deduction.

Yes you should ask if you can replace the carpet. I would be highlighting the brown stain and you're going to have your mum stay over and you're really embarrassed by it and are more than willing to put some cheap carpet down.

£2.99 sq.m is fine how big is the room. A 3m by 3m room might cost about £30 (you need to buy a bit extra to cut off and throw away). It's easy enough to lay yourself.

kinger101

The landlord should factor in the wear and tear when deducting from the deposit. If for example its a carpet with 8 years' of life and its 7 years old, he can charge 1/8 the cost.

If it's the type of LL that makes you live with a heavily strained carpet to begin with, you can bet they'll attempt to get the full cost back. Just dispute it with the protection scheme.

It would be helpful if you have written or photographic evidence of the state of the carpet before you moved in.

If you do choose to replace it yourself, get the LL's permission first. However ugly the current carpet is, it's still their property.

ultimatedingbat

WOuldn't have the first clue how to lay it ourselves THe rooms quite large approx 14ft by 12ft. Have costed the carpet up at about £50 which cou;d be worth doing to save us the agro when we move out.

Is it worth asking the landlord if they'll part with anything? Or provide the fitter?

ultimatedingbat

kinger101 wrote: »

The landlord should factor in the wear and tear when deducting from the deposit. If for example its a carpet with 8 years' of life and its 7 years old, he can charge 1/8 the cost.

If it's the type of LL that makes you live with a heavily strained carpet to begin with, you can bet they'll attempt to get the full cost back. Just dispute it with the protection scheme.

It would be helpful if you have written or photographic evidence of the state of the carpet before you moved in.

If you do choose to replace it yourself, get the LL's permission first. However ugly the current carpet is, it's still their property.

TOuch wood our LL has been mostly very good with repairs. She has done all the thing she's needed to do. I kno her previous tenant left her in a bit of a state wit rent ed. We have the inventory from when we oved in which does state damage t the carpet.

FBaby

Discuss it with her and come up with an agreement. What might be best is likely to be dependent on your intention to stay longer term/her intention to let the place longer term.

ultimatedingbat

At the moment we're in a 6 month contract with no intention of leaving before our terms up. We've been here 2 years in August. We're planning at the moment to sign for another 6 months (till February 2017) We do want to buy our own house though next year.