Can’t afford to carpet my council house

maybe they could put it on Facebook?

the council won't put stuff on Facebook

People can be heinous with carpets
Pissing and pooping pets, children vomiting ,
if rather have ZERO carpeting than someone else’s scabrous floor covering.
Especially in bathrooms - BOAK

🤔 maybe they could put it on Facebook?

Concrete sealant first - then if there is an old style market near you if there is a rug stand/store from what we've seen the best prices for really large rugs.

For smaller spaces lino tiles and cork squares are easy to lay and relatively cheap.

My parents moved to a large old house and we had no carpets for years- army blankets on the floors were fine.

floorboards are probably on upper floors of a new build so they will be warm underfoot .

You can get floor paint to seal in the concrete, it is a grey colour, and then free cycle for some rugs, not ideal but the floor paint with stop the dust at least

What drives me mad about this is that plenty of people leave the floor when they leave council properties which instead of being passed onto the next tenant is then stripped out and binned. It's such a waste.

indeed but the council and HA don't want to be sued for bed bugs or infestation of insects - so its easy to rip the carpets out and start again. Someone somewhere will have caused such a fuss. But it would be better to my mind to get new tenants to sign a waiver

I’ve got some concrete flooring and you could deal with the dust really quickly and cheaply by using a floor paint or by sealing the concrete with a floor sealant. I’ve done mine using a chalk paint and floor varnish but you can also buy water based tile sealant for floors and it dries really quickly. Just make sure whatever you use is for floors so it is non slip. Also water based is better because fumes are less and much shorter drying time. Even a PVA mix (50% water) would work to seal the dust.

I'm very sorry. As a temporary measure, get cardboard boxes and flatten them, it will be a nicer surface, you can then put a pillow/blanket so you can play with your baby on the floor. Good luck, lots of people on here routing for you.

could you look at Lino flooring instead and then buy rugs? at least for downstairs

try off cuts for carpets for upstairs

Also, you can get really cheap cord carpet or exhibition cord it's called. It's also very easy to fit so you could fit it yourself after sealing the floors.

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Best of luck.

We had the same issue when we moved in, HA did carpet the stairs and landing but nowhere else. We managed to save enough to put laminate down in the living room (luckily my dad put it down for us), DD’s box room has lino which was a offcut someone gave us. When we moved in we were given a voucher for money off at B&Q, they don’t sell carpet which is why we got laminate instead.

I would concentrate on downstairs (covering the concrete). Sometimes you can get 2nd hand carpet or end of the roll from the shop for a good price. I saw some carpets on marketplace a few days ago so keep an eye out in there.

My floors are pretty awful 12 years after moving in, we use a rugs as I can’t afford to replace the laminate or the carpets upstairs (luckily no one really visits or goes upstairs).

Where are you OP? I've got a huge floor rug I'm about to get rid of. It's not fantastic but on the off chance your close by you'd be more than welcome to it as hopefully it would be better than nothing.

What drives me mad about this is that plenty of people leave the floor when they leave council properties which instead of being passed onto the next tenant is then stripped out and binned. It's such a waste.

It is standard. When my parents moved into their new build council house 50 yrs ago, they had to carpet it all.

When Mum moved in with me, I was given a long list of things I had to do - that included lifting all carpets. I was allowed to leave vinyl in good condition.

A neighbour's son was allowed to view the council flat he was moving into. The tenants agreed to leave all the floor coverings for him. The council ripped them all up.

As a PP said, it's really important to seal the floor whilst you wait/save for floorcovering.

The dust from concrete floors is quite bad for you so hope you can get it sorted soon.

I carpet my house ( plus previous ones ) myself
Try budget carpet companies such as

flooringsuperstore and online carpets

dont assume underlay is the cheapest just because your carpet is….shop around

Carpeting over concrete is tricky as you don’t use grippers or if you try they are a nightmare to hammer in and you need glue instead. There are alternatives though.

For something really inexpensive and I appreciate this isn’t ideal

Paint the edges of rooms and lay carpet just in the middle, you can even spray glue it down. Don’t buy rugs for this ( they can be more expensive ) buy normal carpet and cut to size. You can edge them yourself over time if need be.

Free cycle is good. Otherwise you can get quite attractive rugs that are Habitat via an Argos for £40. If your kid is young then those foam slot together mats with alphabet letters can make a good temporary floor covering.

Vinyl floor is cheaper than carpet. I know a few Proudhon have added in council properties. You can get wood look effect and it’s easier to clean with small children. I would look into a quote for getting downstairs rooms done in a wood effect vinyl first.
And then either add in bedrooms later or carpet later so cost is spread out

It's not polished concrete though os it ?

And are seriously comparing an unfinished council house to Grand Designs as a like for like comparison?

I mopped the floors to get rid of dust, and carpeted one room at a time. It made it more manageable. I prioritied the bedrooms then the living room, all the other rooms waited til last.

Are there 2000 people reading this can spare a £

If you can find an independent carpet shop they'll have roll ends for sale or there's ones near me that sells carpet tiles and mats really cheap. They used to leave a pile outside the shop, all same colours and you'd make an offer to the owner. He generally accepted any sensible offer.

What about floor paint and a few rugs from charity shop

Oh, from my work with Councils, it will definitely be this.
It still makes me think to hell with washing out my empty Marmite jars!