Dog destroyed my carpet. What to do now

[Ilfurfante]

We left our dog at home today and she has destroyed an area of the carpet by the door of around 1m2. To be honest the carpet is rank anyway - it has been in there since we moved in and with 2 new puppies this year it has taken a battering and I hate it.

However, the room is pretty big (8m x 5.5m) and long-term it will change usage from a sitting room to being the kitchen/diner area. It's also a cold room. We live in a Victorian house with very tall ceilings and single skim walls. It has a large original bay window and another original window (both single glazed) which we will have restored to double glazed at some point. We have a log burner which does heat the room well. The carpet damage has exposed the original floorboards under which actually look in good condition although we can obviously only see a small area.

We don't have any spare money at the moment but our mortgage deal is coming to an end soon and we are looking around for a new one. We could potentially add a bit to the mortgage to pay for some work to be done.

But what do we do? Part of me is tempted to lift the carpet, sand the original floorboards and put some rugs with insulation down and spend money on the windows.

Carpet will be expensive and not something that would stay if we renovate (which could be years though). It seems a bit of a false economy.

It can't stay as it is. It was embarrassing before but even more so now.

What would you do in this situation?

Straighten the edge up replace the square with a coconut type matting and make it into a welcome mat frame it will metal carpet edging strip

Unless you take the floor up, insulate underneath and put underfloor heating in then it will probably be too cold to not have carpet.

Door mats from dunelm. Cheap and durable and washable. Then sand the floor when you are ready to do a full refurb in that area.

Don’t insulate your floor if you are in a Victorian house. Also windows. You’d be best for the long term benefit of your home and your finances to get magnetic secondary glazing. Look at extraglaze or similar.

The dog will dig there no matter what you do. Presumably trying to dig his way out to find you.

start crate training in an appropriately sized crate so he’s comfortable while youre out abd the house isn’t destroyed.

Not long in our home (rental and had bare painted concrete in the utility room..) dh decided to surprise me with new flooring... I laughed.
I wasn't wrong.
It lasted 3 days.

Lots of people with older houses have original floorboards, we do.

OP we did this when we moved in ripped out the trickle laminate and found beautiful original floorboards, hired a sander and got cracking, get a main one and an edger. We used osmo oil as it can be touched to periodically and didn't need sanding back line varnish. We have some large rugs but much of it is exposed. It looks lovely. If your house is cold have you considered a log burner or similar? We had an eco one fitted it cost less than 2k included opening and relining the chimney, slate hearth and new fireplace. With high ceilings it's good to have a direct source of heat. It's also means we don't have the heating on in the evenings, because that makes upstairs too warm

Rubber backed mat in whatever size needed chucked over the area.

No point buying new carpet for the dog to damage it again.

Op says they have a log burner

Check out ruggable rugs. The top part comes off and goes in the washing machine. You need the thicker version - they do a thin version too but that's not warm.

That looks like my dog. I had to do a double take.

@Ilfurfante can you claim on your house contents insurance? We claimed for dog damage once.

Sadly not - no damage caused by pets can be claimed for.

I think we might go with the suggestion of cutting out a square and putting some kind of edging and coir down.

That's a shame.

Just patch as suggested. Our puppy still hasn't finished chewing. Lost another pair of shoes yesterday sigh....