Cheapest of cheap carpet

welshbookworm

Ex Exhibition carpet can be very cheap. Yes its cord but google and see the prices and it might be bearable as its so cheap.

lovehols

Thanks, I actually have a fair bit of garage concrete paint so it could be an option to paint the floor, certainly after getting everything up, and a deep clean. I'd never thought of exhibition carpet and I've found a couple of websites so I'll take a look and get some prices.

lovehols

As an update on did contact a company called Floorex who deal in exhibition carpet and they gave a price of £62.40 pls VAT for two bedrooms, living area and dining area. This was just a basic cord carpet but it is cheap. May be helpful for anyone else considering cheap carpet.

Head_The_Ball

Think carefully. Do you really want to buy this house? You may never fully get rid of the smell as it may have impregnated the fabric of the building.

Seven years ago we viewed a house in similar condition. A senile old lady with dogs the used the house as a toilet.

The smell was so bad that my wife had to leave after a quick look around the ground floor. I managed to tour the whole house. I wished I hadn't as I felt nauseous for hours afterwards and I could 'taste' the smell for the rest of the day.

I could not imagine how awful it would be to be in that house for a few hours, let alone live there with such a smell.

Take expert advice about eradicating the smell before going ahead.

If you have to live there from the day of purchase, you may deeply regret buying it.

If you do go ahead, consider renting somewhere else for a few weeks while you strip the carpets and work on eradicating the smell.

Good luck.

lovehols

We are keen to proceed. Actually when we first viewed we couldn't smell anything, probably as it was a dry day and the vendor must of aired the house before we arrived but the second time we viewed it again it was at the time of heavy snow and the house was shut up with the fire lit so the smell was worse. We are lucky the house we are living in hasn't sold yet so we will certainly have it before mine sells so we can sort out before moving in. Apparently the dogs were only allowed in the living room, not the bedrooms but we are still getting everything up.

We are having a full survey done next week but we haven't got the pressure of moving into the house straight away so we will have time to clean and sort out which may be a blessing in disguise!

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

Think carefully. Do you really want to buy this house? You may never fully get rid of the smell as it may have impregnated the fabric of the building.

Seven years ago we viewed a house in similar condition. A senile old lady with dogs the used the house as a toilet.

The smell was so bad that my wife had to leave after a quick look around the ground floor. I managed to tour the whole house. I wished I hadn't as I felt nauseous for hours afterwards and I could 'taste' the smell for the rest of the day.

I could not imagine how awful it would be to be in that house for a few hours, let alone live there with such a smell.

Take expert advice about eradicating the smell before going ahead.


If you have to live there from the day of purchase, you may deeply regret buying it.

If you do go ahead, consider renting somewhere else for a few weeks while you strip the carpets and work on eradicating the smell.

Good luck.

trailingspouse

You don't need to carpet throughout. If you are doing lots of renovation work, I wouldn't bother putting carpets down at all - they're only going to gather dust.

Instead, just put rugs down in key areas - the route from bed to bathroom is the obvious one, so you don't need to put shoes on if getting up in the middle of the night. Something in kids rooms might also be useful.

We bought carpet runners from Dunelm Mill and made a sort of path from the bedroom to the loo, but didn't bother with anywhere else.

Most smells disappear once carpets curtains and wallpaper are removed. And lots of fresh air works wonders.

lovehols

trailingspouse wrote: »

You don't need to carpet throughout. If you are doing lots of renovation work, I wouldn't bother putting carpets down at all - they're only going to gather dust.

Instead, just put rugs down in key areas - the route from bed to bathroom is the obvious one, so you don't need to put shoes on if getting up in the middle of the night. Something in kids rooms might also be useful.

We bought carpet runners from Dunelm Mill and made a sort of path from the bedroom to the loo, but didn't bother with anywhere else.

Most smells disappear once carpets curtains and wallpaper are removed. And lots of fresh air works wonders.

It's just something on the floors for 12 months as I suspect it will be next year before we have had plans drawn up, passed and got builder etc as it's a huge project being funded by the sale of my Bungalow.

Bungalow floors are notoriously cold, even the one we are in now is always cold round my feet, or I just have the coldest feet ever! For the price it would cost for rugs I'm tempted just to get the exhibition carpet as a temporary thing. It's only a two bed bungalow but it's a kooky layout and the two bedrooms are separated by a flat roofed 'bit' (like a long hall which is also the entrance to the front door) in between the other areas. Luckily we have a big piece of thick vinyl covering that will do for this area we've been given.

paddy's_mum

In an almost identical situation, I bought used carpet tiles. They are widely available through online sales sites or local office refit firms, usually cost about 50 pence each, are washable if the stench does drift its way up and straightforward for the average d-i-yer to lay.

A bonus might be that once your renovations are complete, they could be picked up and re-purposed in a workshop/shed/garage. HTH.