Am I covered

[yesterday]

I rent a private flat, and have been in it for a year. I have now spotted a lovely flat which I would like to move into via the council. I held a house warming in the flat I am presently at, unfortunately cigarette burns have ruined the carpet, the burns are really severe. I did not realise until recently when I re-read the details of the flat that the flat is no smoking.

Will my insurance pay out for this (the Insurance Co was recommended by the letting agents) I have paid out a deposit of �590 of which I do not want to lose.

Somebody mentioned tip a bottle of red wine over the carpet they'll pay out for that. I'm not a dishonest person and I'm sure I would feel very uncomfortable, I really need to get a new carpet in, any body know how to get rid of ciggie burns??

[pink-kittens]

You can only ask them, what's the worse they can say?

You might not even get the little council flat you have 'spotted' anyway, and could have time to buy another carpet to replace the one burnt by cigarette ends

[Doc Spock]

Get a bluntish kniife and scrape some carpet material from where it wont be seen, corners etc.


Fill the burn hole with the fluff and stick it with super glue.

It works quite well, the wife hasn't spotted my repairs yet, that was 6 months ago.

[yesterday]

Thank you all for you replies. Spock I did laugh when I read yours.

[HomingPigeon]

Perhaps you could replace the carpet with a very cheap one - at Easter lots of places have "sales" with massive savings off carpets, suites, furniture - everything you can think of!

Seriously though, it might not cost as much as you think to replace it with a basic carpet, it the room is fairly small you may be able to get a cheap offcut.

Best of luck to you.

[yesterday]

Thank you homingpigeon

An offcut sounds a good idea.