Moving house - take fitted carpets

[Lotty32]

Moving soon and have lovely fitted carpets. If new owners don't want them - has anyone ever taken them with them? Does it ever work?

I hate carpet, so you could take them if you want to. Horrid things.

Gosh I didn't mean to cause a row!! Was just asking!

It used to be fairly common but no one seems to do it now.

It's pretty impractical - even if the sizing works refitted carpet rarely looks great and you can end up with furniture marks, fading and wear marking in all the wrong places, making it look really odd.

The vast majority of people would think its weird to take the carpets. If I was buying a house and the seller asked me if I wanted the carpets I would think they were joking. They are part of the fixtures and fittings. I'd ver very concerned that you were planning on taking other things; the shelves out of the kitchen cupboards, the shower tray etc etc

Our buyers tried to charge us for the carpets, we told them we didn’t want them and to take them with them - it would have made our life easier to have at least bedroom carpets left but they were definitely overvaluing their old carpets. I still wonder what they did with the carpets and whether on moving day they wished they’d never bothered!

*sellers not buyers!

I can't imagine how it would work. What are the chances your new rooms will be the same size that they would fit? Will you have the same furniture in exactly the same place on them as otherwise there will almost certainly be marks that are on show.

And how do you get them fitted? Wait till you have a date for completion and keep your fingers crossed a carpet fitter is free that day to get in before your removal van arrives with your stuff? Or move in then move all your furniture out again another day to get your old carpet put down?

Many years ago we bought a flat with a large sitting room. We were there less than 4 months when we moved due to the noise. I took the new sitting room carpet and had it refitted in the hall, stairs and landing. I was skint so didn’t have much choice. I wouldn’t do it now!

They never look as good re-layed in a new house.

You ant do it unless there are decent floors underneath. If it's bare concrete you have to replace with other flooring.

No, you can't take the bloody carpet!

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I’ve always lived in council or housing association homes and you have to rip all the carpets/Lino out before you move else you get a fine. Which is ridiculous because they often don’t fit in the new property so you have to buy new and the new tenants have to pay out to replace what you just ripped out.

To me, this be discussed prior to exchange of contracts.

No

Our buyers tried to charge us for the carpets, we told them we didn’t want them and to take them with them - it would have made our life easier to have at least bedroom carpets left but they were definitely overvaluing their old carpets. I still wonder what they did with the carpets and whether on moving day they wished they’d never bothered!

Good in you!
So many people try it on and say they’ll leave it for you but actually it’s more hassle for them to remove it.

It used to be really common to take the carpets with you. Even in the 1990s you still had to say in the brochure if the carpets were included.
I am going to ask my buyers if they actually want my living room carpet as it’s only 2 years old immaculate and I think they were measuring up for wood flooring.
I’ll just hire a carpet fitter to re fit it in a bedroom.

@Unreasonabubble

Have you specified that the fitted carpets are not included in fixtures and fittings? Because if you have not, they could sue you if you take them without them realising. You are giving them the option to buy them?

One house they said they were leaving all carpets, before signing contracts they decided they were taking one. We had cardboard boxes opened up onto the bare concrete floor for weeks until we sorted a carpet! Gutted to have left our last carpet as it had only been down 4 months after being replaced on insurance. When the buyers arrived as we were moving out they commented that their new carpet was going down shortly, we moved into a house with the most moth eaten threadbare carpets which were filthy. If I’d known they were going to skip ours I would have lifted it and used it as a rug.

I think the clue is in the 'fitted'. As a general rule, you don't remove fittings and fixtures.

When we bought our house the previous owner proudly told us there was more of the -fucking hideous- entire downstairs carpet in the loft left over from her previous house. It's still there, huge roll of dusty leafy delight

A friend of my DFs did this once and despite having a carpet fitter they were unsightly. I always thought fitted carpets were just left

@toocold54

I’ve always lived in council or housing association homes and you have to rip all the carpets/Lino out before you move else you get a fine. Which is ridiculous because they often don’t fit in the new property so you have to buy new and the new tenants have to pay out to replace what you just ripped out.

I think it may depend on the council. When my dad did a council swap, each agreed to leave carpets in. Maybe different if it's not a swap situation I suppose?

I would have the agent ask if the buyers want the carpets and if they don't then I'd take them if I thought I could use them. No point leaving them to see them in a skip a week after completion.

When filling out the TA10 there is a specific section on carpets ...Included, Excluded, None, Price, Comments. So yeah you can do what you like as long as you've completed the TA10 correctly.

You can buy the carpet fitting tool in B&Q. 🦾🙏🏻👍🏻

Wow.

If you give it some thought op you could strip the doors and floor boards out too, take the loo and the shower. Strip it bare. 😂😂😂

Seriously though, take the fitted carpet..

They will have been stretched to fit where they were originally installed and will never fit properly. Also as others have said, they are a fixture and you would have to negotiate their removal and replacement. I can't imagine moving in to a home with the carpets torn out.

Bought a house in the late 80s and declined to pay over the odds for the heavily patterned carpet. The vendors took the carpet and various other fixtures (which we got back via solicitors).

Bemoaned their behaviour over their awful old-fashioned carpet to the new neighbour, and found they had the exact same one throughout - they’d done a joint deal with the supplier.