Carpet type for rental townhouse in Western Sydney

Which city/state are you in?

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Shahin

Contact the girls at Kruger carpet in North Parramatta. They are on Church St just before the turn into Bunnings.

Go darker brown but not black. 

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Shahin

Check with the supplier regards burn marks from cigarettes & also flamability of each carpet.

Wool carpet is too high quality for the location.

I did a pure wool install on a 3 bedder for an IP in Wenty for $1,300 – that's for the carpet and install. Install was $300 and the carpet was about $1,000. I did it through the Kruger girls.

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Shahin

Bamboo is great too – I have installed them in another IP. Is the IP a unit or house?

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Shahin

I always put in a good underlay and a good quality carpet, not light colors, dark, blue or grey. It does not mark and will work better.

However I have brought a lot of period properties including apartments so where possible I prefer to have polished boards than carpets. I find that you cannot put people off with polished boards but a bad carpet can put people off and even reduce the value of your asset.

On a new investment property build, Stepping Stone recommends clients install 300/300 (mm) ceramic tiles to the Kitchen, Dinning and Hall. Then Solution Dyed Nylon carpet to the Media, Lounge and Bedrooms. The upside of this layout method is the carpeted rooms are not connected to one another. This lets you change the carpet in one room with out having to change it all or have a mismatch area looking so obvious.

The best carpet I believe (having carpeted over 100 rental rooms) is "Solution Dyed Nylon". It stays cleaner, It stands up for years longer then Poly-prop and other fibers. Wool is the best for your own home if you look after it, but SDN is the best for rentals. 

A good foam underlay in important too. You wont need to change a foam underlay for 15 years and a SDN Twist Pile carpet will steam clean better then anything else and look like new every time. Rubber underlays flatten, fall apart and can cause your carpet to age much quicker. 

Most, if not all stains will come out of SDN Twist pile with a steam clean. I have carefully trimmed burn marks out of SND Twist Pile carpet with a pair of scissors and left the carpet in for another 5 years.

Don't install Loop Pile, Pattens or light colours. I have found loop piles damage far more easily and it's hard repair loop piles, aim for a Twist Pile and darker then a coffee stain is a good idea too. I make the carpet the darkest colour in the room with the walls a colour lighter and the ceilings always white.

Tenants LOVE carpet in bedrooms and it makes the house feel more live-able for them. After all they are your customer when you are a property investor.

Vinyl planks and ceramic vinyl tiles are great too in kitchens and hallways if you are retro fitting flooring. You will need to have the plank flooring stripped and re-coated every 3-5 years between tenants, this is no big deal. Try not to lay vinyl planks in the sun if you can help it, they can fade, but not badly. Vinyl planks and ceramic vinyl tiles are really, really durable. Even when they are old they look better then sheet vinyl flooring. Vinyl ceramic tiles are the  best, but can be a bit pricey. You keep a couple of spares and if one get badly damaged by a removalist or the tenant, it's just a case of warming it up with a heat gun and lifting the old one out and replacing it. 

I laid timber laminated in 10 units 7 years ago and I now know the hard way it is rubbish in a rental situation. Bamboo is very hard wearing, but it hates water, be warned! Timber floating, Bamboo and solid timber goes in the same category as quality wool pile carpet, all great but not in a rental. Just too hard to look after. They all last longer, look better and work out cheap over the life of the product, If you look after them.

Someone asked me about colour: I have found that if you choose a colour that doesn't have black or blue in it, the room will look warmer. I go for coffee coloured browns. They hide the dirt and look good with the tenants furniture.