Flooring for rental property?

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We need to replace some White carpets. This is a decent rental property so want something that is not cheap and tatty but nothing too expensive.
Any ideas?
We need to do entrance, stairs, hall and four other rooms.
Carpet again?
Wooden/laminate?
What is the most user friendly with tenants?

is it a flat or a house?

how often will the flooring be replaced?

what is the ground floor made of?

are there any pipes or cables under the floors? (yes there are) Will you be sad when the flooring has to come up for repairs?

Top floor maisonette.

Don't think cable or pipes.
Hoping to keep replacement to minimum, hence why I am looking for alternatives to carpet?
Or any heavy duty tenant friendly carpets to recommend?

White carpet is never going to be a good idea. I have wooden floor in the flat I rent (tenant not landlord) and it's been great. I can say, from the state of various rugs we've had here over the year, that carpet would have been ruined many times over, but there is really no wear to the floorboards, and I have 2 young dc. I now much prefer it to carpet.

Laminate is probably better for the tenants, but would probably be much worse for downstairs neighbours

"Top floor maisonette."

Then you have got to have carpets and a thick underlay because of the noise.

it is unusual to find a bathroom or kitchen with no pipes under it.

Some of the polypropylene heather twists are very good for not staining or looking dirty. Synthetic carpets used to flat down early in high-traffic areas, but it is said the the polypropylene twist is a lot better.

I got some recently and it feels as good as the heavyweight 80/20 wilton in the hall. It's too early to say how it will last. If you are renting the house out, you need something that can be cleaned easily and is stain resistant, and not so expensive that you wil get cross when it has to be replaced.

White is nice in a bedroom but will show all dirt and be stained by spilt tea and coffee. Some tenants are not as careful as if they had bought the carpet themselves.

Can we not do laminate with sound insulation layer?

it will still be significantly noisier than carpet, especially if you have shoes on

You can probably use it in the bathroom and kitchen as it is easier to clean.

We have a light tan carpet in our first floor BTL flat seems to not get too dirty - we have provided a great big door mat so feet can be effectively wiped. Then we have lino in the kitchen and bathroom which is easy for tenants to keep clean and IMO lasts longer than laminate - some tenants will get laminate in kitchen and bathroom too wet regularly and over time it will start to swell.
My family have a long history of BTL over the last 30 years and we reckon good quality carpet will last around 10 years. Having one carpet all through apart from kitchen and bathroom is cheaper because you can get a 'big' job deal with carpet guys (not offered for mix of carpets). We then rug doctor between tenants so it is really spick and span when the new ones go in.

Lizcat - ten years on carpet would make me very happy! When you say good quality what type of carpet would it be?