Carpet and kitchen flooring advice, please

[doglover]

Hello everyone. Our house renovations are continuing and we're getting to the flooring decisions bit. A local carpet shop owner came out last week to quote for our hall/lounge carpet and we were pretty scared at the price!!

He recommended the 'Elegance Twist' carpet as a hard-wearing quality flooring (£22.99m) with 'Cloud' underlay (£5.99m) . The total was over £1600 which is really more than we can comfortably afford.

Can anyone else recommend a really tough, longlasting carpet - suitable for pets/children?

The kitchen quote was for £490 for Karndean (would be slightly less for Camaro). We know this is a very hardwearing option and probably better than conventional vinyl .................... Would you agree?

TIA

what about flipping your idea - and getting a cheap and cheerful carpet that will last a few years - and set up a standing order to save for a good one later down the line ?!

I have often used bargain room size remnants and had them whipped to form room size rugs , cheap , cheerful and can be moved to even out the wear and tear ! :-)

That's actually a really sensible suggestion, OPOH!! It would remove some of my anxieties about cost and longevity ................

I too have dogs !! so been there !! glad to have helped ! :-)

Yes, I'm doing the same. Good underlay, very cheap carpet that can be bleached to get us through the potty training years. Then something decent later one.

We're doing cheap carpet for now, and planning to replace when our kids are finally potty trained and our elderly cat has gone to the great cattery in the sky :( We're only putting it upstairs though. No way would I ever have carpet downstairs again. It does make the house warmer though...anyway, we've gone for a carpetright £6m2 jobby, with decent underlay.

Am putting wood in the kitchen, with a big area rug. I love rugs. I love that you can just THROW THEM AWAY when bad things happen to them (vomit, poo, dead animals, blood, vomited up dead animals etc etc etc).