Housing Association - Flooring

[Iworkmiricles]

Just been to look at a flat with the ex that is managed by a housing association. They knew they were going to have to get white goods and furnishing, but the lack of flooring was a bit of a shock. Moving into a council property on a limited budget and you have to start by forking out £1K + on carpeting? really? I'm not taking expensive carpets, but you still need to add fitting and underlay and everything.
Right now kind of feeling it was very generous of them to provide doors and glass in the windows!

Try a comparison:

1. Cost of social rent and buying cheap carpet/couple of rugs to tide you over
2. Cost of private rental.

It'll probably make you feel a bit better about it.

@Iworkmiricles me, DH and DS who was 4mo, moved into a HA property in January and the flat was completely unfurnished. We also didn't qualify for white goods because my DH earns £200 a year over the cutoff. So we had to buy all of the appliances and carpet it all ourselves. It's been a financial nightmare, flooring is ridiculously expensive. Honestly I'd be happy that you're getting what you are, it could have been like my situation and that really would make you want to 😭 good luck in your new place😁

I thought that that has always been the case except in the kitchen and bathroom.

DM moved into a HA Property last year, the floor in every room apart from kitchen and bathroom was shocking! So I think it is the case, Yes.

Hopefully ex might have a bit saved if he’s not been paying out rent while homeless?
or might depending on income be eligible for welfare fund application.
the housing association should have a welfare rights person

Standard for the social housing provider to remove any carpet/flooring. It's an insurance/liability minefield for them. It doesn't have to cost £1,000 though.

HA's are only responsible for flooring in the kitchen an bathroom. I'm not sure if this is a national policy, but it's also the case that they will remove carpets already laid before a tenant moves in for infection control purposes.

It is because housing associations/councils are responsible for replacing anything within the flat that is provided to the tenant.

As you can imagine carpets and flooring get a lot of wear and tear. And some people (believe it or not), do chose to take their carpet with them when they move to reuse in their next places.

Not ideal I agree.

Yep! I walked into an empty house with no flooring no white good nada..! But we had an affordable home, a front door and the whole place had be completely renovated/painted and I had a blank canvas including huge back garden re-seeded and good to go. My rent is a quarter of the private sector rentals in the area, I've got lovely neighbours and I've spent the past year building a home for me and my children. Be thankful, use the cardboard boxes flattened down to insulate floors and save up month by month for flooring whilst you decorate.

It's usually a condition of Tenancy that when you leave, you remove every scrap of flooring, blinds, curtains and non standard light fittings, white goods and everything else or they'll charge you a vast amount for their contractors to do so. And whilst it's potentially annoying/costly, it's nowhere near as bad as moving in somewhere where the first thing you have to do in your 7 days to move in (assuming you aren't actually homeless and literally have nowhere else to go unless you move in that afternoon) is spend 6 of them physically tearing up dog or human urine soaked carpet, deal with bedbugs, fleas, cockroaches, Pharaoh Ants, Mealy Bugs or anything sharp and infectious underneath the carpet and pay for disposal.

At least this way, it's clean(ish) and the new tenant can get their stuff in straight away without actually having a hard physical and hygiene related task.

The HA next door to me became vacant due to our lovely neighbour passing away. We watched in shock as the housing pulled up all the carpets and threw them in the skip. The living room was less that a year old and pristine!. What a waste.

When we moved here it took us months to get all the rooms flooring done. We had to do it a room at a time and the stairs last. Started with bedrooms and worked our way around.