New carpet or new bathroom - which should come first

[brighteyedandbushytailed]

This year need to do bathroom and carpets. Does it make sense to do carpets first or is new bathroom (not carpeted itself, but running off carpeted hallway) then new carpets a better order?

I'd do the bathroom first, just because there will be dust and paint etc which I'd want to get out of the way before replacing a carpet that could potentially get dirty.

The issue (sorry drip feeding) is that there is other work, which needs to be done relatively urgently (replastering, electrics, leaky pipe from upstairs) which the carpets would naturally follow on from (because we'll have to move eberything out anyway). The bathroom, while important, is less urgant and could (probably should) wait due to expense. Is there any way of protecting new carpet? Or am I just setting myself up for a fall and we should swallow all the expense at once?

I am having lots of work done at the moment and the carpets have been taken up to access pipes etc. They just dont look the same now they have gone back down! We were going to change them at some point but now its sooner rather than later.

Do the carpets last

Thank you - not what I wanted to hear but then the best advice never is!

just done this! New bathroom, then new carpet - the dust is a nightmare

Although I am sure you can get sticky backed plastic sheeting to protect carpets - try trade paint places as they are likely to have them.

@redlac - did you find it was just dust? There was nothing "nastier"?

just dust (thankfully!)

Bathroom first.

The dust will be incredible (and will keep settling for weeks afterwards) and you may need to rip carpets up to get at pipes or electrics or floorboards (even if they're in areas you can't imagine being connected to the bathroom).