When did we all have fitted carpets.?

[RRJ]

I remember at around 16-17 and been working for a couple of years I bought my mom her first fitted carpet (1972)
When I say 'fitted' I mean I bought a thin foambacked remnant that was big enough to fit the living room and fitted it myself using a combination of a bread knife and a pair of scissors, she was well chuffed.

Lino adorned the other rooms of the house. If you looked under the freestanding stove in the kitchen you would notice the lino missing in big chunks. My brother and sisters used to tear pieces off to stick in our shoes /pumps when they were holed!

 

[mw0njm.]

i remember mom buying a carpet off some blokes who come around on a sunday. saying it was left overs from a job,
when dad come home and unrolled it it was thread bare in the middle. what a shock. poor mom

 

[mw0njm.]

There were often problems with gaps in the floorboards which my Dad would pack with newspapers to stop the cold air blowing through. Likewise the gaps between the skirting board and the floor.

are you sure we are not related

 

[Green Girl]

I can remember my parents getting fitted carpet sometime in the 1960s. Before that we had 'lino' or a carpet square placed over stained floorboards.

 

[Tinpot]

are you sure we are not related

Sometimes there was the addition of cheese and a mousetrap.

 

[Brummie a long time ago]

Our first fitted carpet, instead of inheriting someone else’s choice, was when I had a welcoming sweetener to change jobs. That meant a big move, and we had our choice fitted throughout the bungalow by a professional company. I think that was a big tick on Julie’s wish list. That was 1983. All I did was sign the bill.
Nowadays it is mostly tiles, with laminate in the bedroom, and a few rugs.
Andrew.g

 

[Vivienne14]

We had carpets fitted into a parquet surround for as long back as I remember. When the house was built in the 1930s the parquet trim was probably originally meant for you to drop a piece of Lino in to. In time the parquet was removed (shame) and ‘wall-to-wall’ carpet was fitted. We were fortunate enough to never have problems affording carpet as my mums brothers worked in the industry in Yorkshire. They’d throw a piece on a one if the mills delivery vans for us if it was coming Brum way ! Viv.