Two different floors in one room?

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The HA has only fitted half my kitchen floor, leaving the other half as the sub floor.

Their contractor has quoted me £250 to have the other half fitted, which even if I could afford, I wouldn't be willing to pay for vinyl flooring.

I am not allowed to alter or cover the floor they have fitted and can't find any to match.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do that won't look ridiculous? Carpet is not an option. There is mud, a child and an elderly, semi-continent terrier x.

Maybe I should've tried a different talk section for attention? I'm really stuck for ideas here. I've lived in rented houses all my adult life with the magnolia walls and shitty job lot carpets in various shades of puke.

I was really looking forward to having a nice home, now I'm stuck with half a floor I'm unable to match or cover.

Can you kick up a huge fuss about how it is a safety hazard for your child?

Carpet?

Might be worth making a fuss, TBH.

In social housing, tenants providing their own floor covering except for bathroom and kitchen is normal. But half a room undone is a bit much.

Installation of floor coverings is my responsibility except for in the kitchen.

They are claiming the medium sized kitchen is two rooms. The 'dining room' is my responsibility. Except it's not a dining room, it is the kitchen. There is no separation via a wall, partial wall or arch and there is a kitchen cabinet in my 'dining room'. My fridge freezer will have to go in my 'dining room' because there is no space for it in the kitchen part of my 'dining room'.

I don't think claiming it unsafe would work because it was always my responsibility to put flooring in the 'dining room'. They just didn't bother telling me I had a dining room.

I wouldn't mind paying to have the entire kitchen and 'dining room' covered with a cheaper floor but they're not allowing to take up or cover what they have put in already.

They can’t randomly decide that one room is two rooms now, if they didn’t mention it at sign up.

That’s really penny pinching of them.

Why not submit a formal complaint? It'll cost you less than half a floor!

Can you show us a picture of the kitchen floor

The first 12 months of my tenancy is a probation period. If I kick up a big fuss or make complaints, will that go against me?

We've already have had a huge fuss over getting the gas and electricity supply turned on because they kept sending the gas engineer before the electrician.

I really, really don't want to spend the rest of my life with shitty private LLs and magnolia walls. I just want a secure, nice home.

At sign up they told me the kitchen including floor would be replaced. They never mentioned that half the kitchen was a dining room. If they had, I'd have asked for a price for the other half there and then and then asked them to leave it as it was and paid myself for an entire floor.

The £250 floor is to cover an area of 3m by 3.5m. I've been quoted £135 for the remaining kitchen for vinyl and fitting or £165 for the entire kitchen.

This is what they fitted. Excuse the muck, they also ripped up all the turf so dd had been out planting grass.

I don't have a pic of the entire kiychen/dining room and I'm not currently at the property. They still haven't uncapped the gas and it is freezing there so we are staying at our old property until that's sorted.

I'd get a different pattern and colour vinyl for your 'dining room' as I think that'll be tough to match.

Make sure the fitter you choose uses an appropriate transition so that the edges don't lift.

I think I'd go for a grey slate tile effect. I think it'll look ok if it's got a table on it. It might delineate the different areas/ functions of the room. Good luck!

Go for something very different but that tones nicely, IYSWIM. So it looks deliberate

I agree that it is shorty of the HA but I think as long as you go for a completely different floor it will look ok. I've seen plenty of kitchen diners with different flooring. I'd go for a Moroccan tile style www.best4flooring.co.uk/moroccan-vinyl-flooring-sheet-tangier05
Or something bright and colourful.

Something like this?

It's not carpetright fitting it. It's an independant fitter whose giving me mates rates because he knows my dad but I'm sure he had something similar in his showroom.

The other problem I'll have is what I've picked will be thicker. The independent fitter won't stock 'that thin shit' and for me to get mates rates, I have to order from the roll. He won't order a roll of 'shit', if I wanted to match thickness or style he'd have to order it in my exact measurements, which would up the price.

Will that be an issue? He said he'd join them but didn't say how.

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I like that Morrocan one.

I'm flummoxed that you are not even allowed to cover their half floor!!! Wtf??
Can your friendly fitter put one of those metal edges (like you get on doorways) across, to deal with the slightly different thicknesses? Or would that look grim?
Agree with going bold- then it looks more deliberate!

Go for the morrocan or another feature tile, to make it look deliberate, the fitter will. Join with the same thing which joins between doors, you can get wooden as opposed to metal which look nicer.

ILS had a half and half flooring in their kitchen dining room with half vinyl and the rest carpet
I know you said you didn't want carpet but I would go for a hard wearing matting type flooring
I think 2 different types of vinyl will look odd as will a join of similar vinyls
Something like jute or seagrass

Did they have different walls insancerre?

I was thinking one similar to the morrocan one with some grey and red in it, paint two walls a mushroom colour to match the 'kitchen' and a two a terracotta/light brownish red to match the 'dining room'.

The only thing is the kitchen half stops randomly an inch or so into the last kitchen cabinet. I'll be going round and will take more pictures to show you all what I mean. It is definitely not two rooms. It is a kitchen.

Carpet really won't work. The terrier has a weak bladder. He can no longer hold himself overnight or if he's left for more than two hours and you can see what the child did to the floor. We haven't even moved in yet.

I’ve got wood and carpet in one room, to demarcate the different areas, and I think it looks good, if carpet a little less practical. I ageee with the others - go for something clearly different, and put your kitchen table on it to be a different zone.

Would a remnant do the job , like these www.flooringsuperstore.com/sale/vinyl-remnants

It shouldn't have been left like that. Something isn't right there.

Go back to the HA direct, not through contractor, and ask them to explain. Tell them what the contractor said. Offer to send them pictures of how it has been left. Ask if they have done a post-works inspection.

A plain dark colour maybe, like dark green or something, as if it could be a carpeted area but in vinyl. Clearly different but not too much going on to draw attention to it.

Or match as best you can and use a large rug to demarcate the areas - the boundary of mismatched wood will recede visually as your eye is drawn to the much more obvious boundary between the rug and the wood effect. But I can see a large rug and weak bladdered dog are not going to be a happy combo.

Any possibility of getting on your local planning office and getting a photo of the original plans from the planning application for the house showing that the kitchen is one room (you maybe able to do this online, otherwise it might be worth ringing).