To ask how often you replace your carpets?

[Strawberryfelineforever]

Had a discussion with soon to be DH about whether we’d like hardwood flooring or carpets upon moving in. He said he prefers carpet and I agreed that I like it but requires more upkeep, to which he said you replace them every couple or three years. To me that seems excessive but that’s how often his family replaced theirs because he said DM got sick of things easily. We’ve always had hardwood floors so I’m not overly familiar, but what is the average lifespan of a carpet?

My lounge carpet has been down about 16 years, the upstairs ones longer.

As long as possible - 20+ years. But then I have a phobia about carpet shops.

Mine only get replaced when they are either threadbare or look so tatty I can't stand looking at them anymore.

As long as you buy really decent underlay and vacuum regularly and have them professionally cleaned once a year or so then they'll last.

15-20 years.

How often? No!
10-15 years until they look less that good looking.

10-15 years

In our previous house we replaced the hall and stairs carpet after about 7 years, and I thought that was excessively lavish (and we reused most of the old one in the roofspace and cloakroom) Normally I'd say a carpet should last 15 years under normal conditions (maybe a bit less if it's getting a lot of wear).

Our new house has a lot of laminate flooring and some of it looks terrible despite being fairly new. It also shows every speck of dust, and the kids were skidding everywhere for the first few days!

Wow. Decent carpet should last much longer than 2-3 years. At our old house we never changed any carpets. They were there when we moved in and still there when we moved out 14 years later.

We've been in new house two years and did replace carpets (bedroom and stairs - downstairs is floorboards) because we were renovating the whole house and the carpets were really at the end of their life but I'd guess they were 20-25 years old and not great quality. I'm def not planning on replacing our new carpets. We deliberately chose hardw earing ones that can be scrubbed or even bleached.

10 years ish. Maybe longer, depending what room it is in.

2 to 3 years is crazy

Decent wool carpet should last at least 15 years.

Cheaper man made fibres will wear much quicker and probably only look only good for 3 years or so.

Normal ones around 15 years. Really expensive, good quality should last 20 years + provided you take care of them.

So wasteful to replace them every few years!

Every couple of years? Were these silk carpets?

I knew someone who would do expensive redecoration of their home every couple of years and they still only replaced their carpet when they could claim it on the insurance.

I remember a family on here who repainted their living room every weekend because they liked to keep it fresh. A carpet every 2 years is along the same lines.

Do you wear shoes indoors? If so then you would probably need to replace the carpets sooner rather than later. I'd go with a wooden floors, much more hygienic IMHO.

We are renovating our house but the carpets we have just removed were around 40 years old.

At least 10 years'. We've put old lounge carpet which was replaced in a bedroom before

Probably twice in a lifetime.

Thanks everyone. I thought it seemed a bit much as well!

Approx 15 years

Whenever I moved into a house with carpet I liked to replace that as soon as I could afford to - when you know how much scuzz accumulates with hard flooring it makes me a bit grossed out that lots of former resident scuzz was hiding in their shag pile.

Ours are 14 years old. I'm working on DH on changing the downstairs ones.

My old house has just gone up for sale. It's now beautifully done out, and stunning inside. Some of the carpet I put down in 2001 is still there!

Mine need replacing after 15 years but I'm too lazy to organise taking all the furniture out

We’ve had our bedroom carpet for 25 years and got it off the parents in law who were going to throw it out as it was starting to look slightly worn for their dining room!

My bedroom carpet is approaching 30 years, OP! To be fair, I did intend replacing it a year ago and getting a new fitted bedroom, but then the pandemic arrived and I’ve been ill for a year with long Covid. Maybe next year...