New build carpet quality - still shedding after 5 years - replace?

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Just bought a house, it’s a new build - 5 years old.

I was putting together some Ikea furniture and working on the carpet. Fibres were shedding all over my trousers and they were also irritating my throat. It just looks like a normal carpet, not long haired or anything.

The carpet is the same on the stairs, landing and bedrooms. It is obviously exceptionally poor quality.

My mum has a carpet on her stairs that’s been down a year. I knelt and sat on it to see how much carpet fibre would shed onto my trousers for a comparison. There was almost nothing on my trousers from this one - a fairly averagely priced ordinary carpet from a local carpet shop.

Would you replace the 5 year old bedroom carpet in the new build? I feel a bit resentful and wasteful replacing a 5 year old carpet, but I think that if it’s still shedding after 5 years (normal use by the people before us) then it won’t get better and I don’t want all that crap in my lungs.

does anyone know about new build carpets and whether it’s typical / should be replaced?

thanks

When we were last in the housing market (2018/19) we looked at a few new builds and they all seemed to have the same grey carpet. Quite heavy pile, clearly some man made fibres in there, looked superficially plush but I don’t imagine they were great quality, even on expensive houses.

Had we bought a new build the carpets would have been out first thing. Decent hard wearing wool carpet is quite expensive and not what property builders put in as it won’t get them any more for their sale price.

Thanks - people do take them out then. I just felt bad about it. That said, it’s really just the master bedroom I’m thinking of doing so that’s the one that’s had the most use. Irritating that such poor carpet is put down though - shedding significantly after 5 years is really poor.