To buy new carpets for home we’ll only be in another 1-2 years?

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Desperate to re-carpet lounge, and possibly two upstairs bedrooms. They really need doing.

We rent (housing association) and we’ve made the best of the carpets provided but there is no underlay and it’s freezing plus they don’t match anything. We are allowed to recarpet but hoping to buy a home in 2025.

Is it a terrible waste of money to put new carpets in given well only move?

YABU - yes, put up with them

YANBU - no, not a waste

I wouldn’t.

I could put up with the mismatch for another 12-20 months tbh.

I’d buy rugs to address the cold temperature - you can take those or sell them when you move out.

Buying/moving is pricey. Save your dosh!

Good luck with the househunting. Exciting times!

I'd but really big rugs. Some second hand ones can be great.

Buy some big, thick rugs that you can take with you.

save the money and move sooner

you are saving to move from a HA property to your own purchased property

surely every penny counts for the deposit!!

New carpets would be a colossal waste. I'd get some large rugs and make do until next year.

Rugs all the way, double insulation, flexible and portable. People are always selling them on Gumtree, Dunelm and ikea have some affordable belters, you can also be a bit more exciting in your choices!

I've had the same issue.

I'm in private rented. Over a year ago I raised the issue of the carpets needing doing with my agency. They agreed but there was some back and forth, and some ho-hah, and I never heard mention of them again.
However, I'm not planning on being in this property this time next year, so I plan to save myself the hassle and not chase it.

Save your money OP. It's hard and crap when it's cold, but bare in mind that the temperatures we've had this week are about the coldest it gets here. It'll be on it's way back up soon.

I'd do it
Otherwise, if something happens and you end up still there in 5 years, you won't be regretting not getting them tbh

No to spending money on new carpet

Buy rugs that you can take with you

I would not plan on being able to buy the home in 2025, could be a lot longer especially if you are messed about by a seller and/or estate agent.

When we moved into our home ( owned ) we bought the cheapest ( shitist ) carpet known to man because we had visions of it coming up in a year or two for renovations . Fast forward 5 years and the renovations are just being started , and that cheap shitty carpet is still like brand new !

I'd 100% put up with the carpets so as not to waste money and resources on carpets. I believe they'll rip them out when you leave anyway.

Just buy big rugs for a second hand furniture shop in the meantime.

Price it up, I might not be more than large good quality rugs that you both like and will offer insulation and might not fit in the house you hope to buy. It would do my nut in spending a year or 2 hoovering both carpet and big rugs.
You might find roll ends you like that work out cheaper and then get a freelance carpet fitter to come in and do the laying.

New carpets is basically your solicitor fees for conveyancing - if you're lucky.

House buying is fraught with hidden and surprise costs

I would say put up with what you have - your future self will thank you

Ikea sell MASSIVE rugs

I would buy the carpets. You still have to live there for quite a while so it is an investment in your comfort and happiness and that is worth a lot. I would however go for the most affordable carpets and not buy a top range one thus keeping the costs as low as you can.

You can buy carpet cheaply online, just lay it over whatever is already down as underlay. That’s what the people we bought our house off had done, and they’d just cut it around the furniture 😒

Years ago I lived in a brand new housing association house and it came with no carpets. The stairs were really noisy and kept bringing up dust. I found someone selling their old carpets and fitted them to the bedrooms and stairs. The following year we moved abroad. We left the carpet on the stairs but we took the main carpet as it was very good quality and a wool mix. Had it made into a rug which almost 30 years later we still have!
So if you do buy a carpet you like you may be able to take it with you and use it in your new home.

Go for it. We re-carpeted the stairs in our old house, plus our bedroom, knowing we’d only be there another 12-18 months. The old carpets, which we replaced, were absolutely rank but it was our home and we wanted to enjoy it whilst we were there. It actually wasn’t that expensive tbh. We got relatively inexpensive carpets and had them put down by a local fitter. Probably cost about £500-600 including the underlay.

We had similar in last house that we knew would only be for 3-4 years. We carpeted 2 small bedrooms where the carpets were disgusting, went for the cheapest available from local carpet shop - they can often do good deals if you aren't too fussy and they can use up leftovers of a roll they've used for a bigger job.

For the living room and dining room which were worn/threadbare in places and had some stains, we decided to just get them professionally cleaned, then covered the whole lot in assorted rugs from dunelm. They have great options of thin rugs in assorted sizes that you can measure and puzzle together to give almost total coverage of the room. And take with you to next home. Saved a fortune.

Personally, I’d go with the rugs, but what about carpet tiles? You could then take them with you and reuse them.

Yes, nice rugs you can take with you.

If you're only there a year I'd put up with it - if the reality is nearer 2/3 get the carpets, and obvs don't go for top quality.

I work in a carpet shop and it can be pretty cheap you could even use your existing ones as underlay if you put gripps all round and trim all round the edge, just do the rooms you use the most and it probably won't cost more than a week super market shop, just avoid big names as they hammer you on the price of extras even if carpet sounds cheap