Selling House - Wood Flooring - Lay or let buyer decide

MrExcitement

Hi,

***Opinion Topic***

We are selling a house, originally our home, let in past few years. It had a nice semi-solid flooring downstairs but at this stage, its badly damaged through lack of care. House furniture is being emptied for sale. So thinking, lets pull it up and give buyer confidence of no underlying issues (concrete sub floor), save them cost of lifting (as its inevitable), and let them choose to their taste.

That's what we would like as a buyer but maybe that would put off a lot of people? Or would biting the bullet and replacing the wooden floor be of that much value to people purchasing a house?

50/50 on it and really not a lot of budget to stretch to it so wondering what people think. Would it be that important if rest of property is in good condition and fitted? Its max 2k cost for materials+underlay+fitting as only 36sqm space.

Just bought a house. They installed a new set of kitchen appliances and doors to the old kitchen. Lay new laminate flooring in the living room and new carpets in the upstairs.

-kitchen been completely ripped out and doors sold off - wasted money did not influence decision to buy.

-will hopefully keep the laminate and carpet - but the carpet will make renovations far more difficult to perform and may end up getting trashed anyway.

Overall they wasted their money tarting it up.

10-10-20

I agree, it's an unneeded cosmetic alteration and one which isn't likely to provide any benefit as many buyers want to choose their own floor covering and would prefer to not have to rip-up a new floor. I'd personally see it as a waste of money and not very environmentally considerate.

wildwillow

Just have it very clean, decluttered and tidy. Most people rip out lots of floors etc. It won’t be a deciding factor for the buyer.

Doop

Side note if its semi solid have you costed having it sanded and refinished?

If you were considering throwing down a cheap laminate to sell the place I wouldn't bother, its more annoying and wasteful to the new purchaser

CrazyEric

If a buyer mentions it you could agree to allow €1000 for the floor, they feel they got a concession and makes dealing with other issues easier.