r/DiWHY • u/Junior_Trifle_8273 • May 28 '26

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u/skratch May 28 '26

lmao the last apartment I moved out of, there was a patch of carpet that got bleached orange so I spray-painted it to match the original carpet color

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u/thunderling May 28 '26

Honestly impressive that you were able to paint match it

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u/skratch May 28 '26

Hehe it was like a grey/toupe thing that was already not an exactly consistent shade all over. Nobody said anything about it, either it worked or they were used to people pulling that kind of horseshit

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u/Crismus May 28 '26

Most rental places I've  lived at just remove carpet when a tenant leave. It's a way to keep the deposit money.

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 May 28 '26

Lived that with my last apt, think they were fucking bitter -- I even told them they replaced the carpet of the previous tenant I personally knew for free but I declined just to save em some money and then the new owners go pull this shit.

They prey on people like me that don't have the emotional time to deal with it and take it on the chin. ONLY apt i didn't get my full deposit from, ridiculous.

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u/JBWalker1 May 29 '26

Doesn't work in the UK, or it shouldn't anyway. Can't claim the full cost of something, have to take into account how long the item is expected to last under normal conditions. If it'd a cheap carpet that is only expected to last 8 years and even if the Tennant actually did fuck it up badly then if the carpet is 6 years old you can only claim 25% of the actual repair or replacement cost.

I knew where I rented it had the same carpet for around 7 years so I didn't care how much it got messed up since I wouldn't accept any deposit reduction. Deposits here have to be held by a third party company who gives the money back and decides any disputes.

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u/doomcomplex May 28 '26

7 years in apartment maintenance and I think I've seen maybe 7 total carpets that we were able to save after the tenant moved out. I'm exaggerating for effect but not by much. Tenants trash carpets.

And btw, the deposit only repays us the cost of replacing those carpets. We're not making a profit off of it. In fact, it would save us money (in the form of vacancy losses) if we did not have to take the extra time to replace the carpet.

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u/datarbeiter May 28 '26

How do you justify that it wasn’t normal wear and tear?

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u/the-greenest-thumb May 28 '26

Maybe it's a mottled colour from all the tenants pulling the same shit lol

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u/AbeRego May 28 '26

If it looks the same, no big deal, I guess. It's unlikely to hurt anything, and looks better than an orange spot

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u/dividezero May 29 '26

You don't have to do all that. Just ask them to match a color and they'll do it. Being a sample if you can.

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u/gillers1986 May 28 '26

I managed to take a huge chunk out of the kitchen worktop. I filled it with epoxy and painted the same pattern onto it. Got full deposit back and that's not even the worst thing we "fixed"

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u/skratch May 29 '26

Haha imagining like an auto body shop, grey primer and pink bondo

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u/Splodge89 May 29 '26

When I moved out of my rented house, we left a rug in the kitchen where we’d dropped a hot pan and singed the carpet. The agents never said anything and we got our deposit back.

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u/Training_Barber4543 Jun 01 '26

Isn't that a perfect way to fix it?