Laminate flooring.

TELLIT01

@bjv The carpet we currently have down was nearly £30 per square metre back in 2005.  I dread to think of the price of a comparable carpet now.  Underlay was £8 per metre.

GaleSF63

I had laminate fitted  in the living room and hall, and carpet in the bedrooms. No furniture was moved out of any room, and there's plenty of it, including a very heavy piano in the smaller bedroom. Skirtings weren't removed and edge trims covered the little gap at the bottom of the skirting.

Albermarle

TELLIT01 said:

@bjv The carpet we currently have down was nearly £30 per square metre back in 2005.  I dread to think of the price of a comparable carpet now.  Underlay was £8 per metre.

That must be pretty top of the range. You can get a pretty decent quality for about £25 m2 even today.

TELLIT01

@Albermarle it was.  It had a lot more wear than expected due to lockdown and my wife working from home.  Constantly walking in and out of one doorway umpteen times a day has had an effect.  Hopefully a really good clean will revitalise the pile and give it a few more years.