Carpet... Please educate a novice!

[Bellyrub1980]

I never needed to buy carpet before so I'm a bit confused by the options.

Here's the deal, in the summer we moved into 50 year old house. It needs a lot of work. The living room will need lots of fireplace and brickwork along the room knocking out and replacing. We currently don't have the funds or time to do this, so it's on the back burner till summer 2017.

In the mean time the carpet is absolutely minging. We had it cleaned when we moved in but it just smells like a wet dog. I've tried everything but nothing really tackles the smell. It's just a very old well used carpet and it's had its day.

So basically we're thinking about buying a very cheap carpet to tide us over for a year. It just needs to be functional and look neutral. When we rip the fireplace and brickwork out we will need another new carpet as the floor will be about 2ft wider.

I see the cheapest of the cheap at carpet right is £2.99 m2.

www.carpetright.co.uk/carpets/champion-loop-pile-plain-carpet

We could afford this now. My only concern is, is this such terrible quality that it isn't even worth it for a year? We have a 1 yr old, she falls over a lot. Will a carpet this cheap scratch and give her carpet burns?

What about static?

Like I say, it's only temporary but how cheap should we realistically go before the carpet is so cheap it's nasty???

Well it's not going to be for that much longer, I've been here for 10 years and my DCs are older and will be moving on sooner or later so I'll be downsizing. However, I view good decor and carpets etc as an investment, so hopefully will ensure it still looks good when it goes on the market. Then I'll be down to a 2/3 bed flat somewhere I expect - tho' I'll probably still be looking at something Victorian, high maintenance and draughty!!

I'd suggest you buy all the of bits yourself then get someone local to fit. That's the most cost effective way anyway or you'll be stung on all the extras with carpet right.

Oh and BTW Burt's do send out samples whattodo

I got my underlay from tradepriced.co.uk very reasonable for good quality thick underlay with a 25yr guarantee, worked out at around £4-5 per sqm. They also do gripper rods and all the other door bits.

Not sure where you are but I've just done 53 sqm worth of carpet on concrete floors, stairs, landing, bedroom and living room and paid £170 for fitting in London, which I thought was very reasonable.

I found a website last night called justcarpetsuk.biz... Seems similar to the Burts website...

whats i do think someone who buys my house will still come and rip up anything I lay. Although maybe I am looking at it all wrong - how long will your carpet been down by the time you sell? Maybe I should be getting a nicer one to impress buyers?? Thoughts..

black who did you pay to fit the carpet was it an Independent fitter?

Cupcake yes an independent guy.

As long as it's a good quality neutral carpet you can't really go wrong. But if you're doing the house up purely to sell personally I would probably not bother. Just get them cleaned and leave it at that. Any prospective buyer would factor it in when making an offer I expect.