Too take my flooring with me when I move

[MotherofthreeDragons]

Moving to a smaller property, it's an exchange, the house is in a nice area, but the property is in need of a lot of work, where as I have spent a fortune on mine (although I'm not claiming its perfect!)
I have not long put laminate flooring through out ground floor and carpeted upstairs, but the new house is in need of both.

I will also be paying the dreaded bedroom tax until I find a job down there (£130 per month) even though, I will not have an extra room
So will have no spare money for decorating for quite a while.

Do you think I would be UR to take up my flooring and take it with?

I asked my land lord and they told me its upto me what I take or leave, but I really don't want to be 'that' person who takes everything including the light bulbs!

That's not true sockreturningpixie, if there are things such as flooring and carpeting which are in a good state of repair they're left. They don't shell out to rip things up when they're in good nick

Seriously, flooring and light fittings basically anything that the tenant has put in themselves,is expected to be removed if its a thing like a shower the incoming tenant has to sign a disclaimer stating that they accept it as is and the LH/HA are not responsible for it.

The vast majority of the outgoing tenant check forms ( compleated at the inspection you have to have before a mutual exchange can go ahead) have this written on them.

But its the tenants responsibility to remove them and make good not the landlords.

With mutual exchanges an additional agreement would be expected to be made between the exchanging tenants if flooring was to be left but you have no way of enforcing it if one tenant decided to remove but one kept to the agreement.

Its standard with social housing tenancies to only get an empty shell of a house no matter how you obtain it. The only things you get are fixtures and fittings the council or HA fit.

I thought the housing association got rid of all that stuff anyway. If it was carpet they certainly would, so laminate is no different. I would take it.

im taking mine. when we swapped and moved in here the carpets were flearidden, worn, full of questionable stains, the lot. i tore up the carpets and got cheap laminate. cost me £400. thankfully id saved for it, and theres no way im going to another carpetted place without my floor! im in a council house too and have to downsize cos of the fking bedroom tax for a flimsy partition too which i said id take down then but noooooooooo, its now a room.