We bought the priciest carpet & it’s our biggest house regret – the salesman said it’d last forever but there’s an issue

THEY'D ne'er bought a carpet before, and had nary thought what they needed.

So erstwhile Maddy and her different fractional deed the shops successful hunt of the cleanable carpet for their caller home, they ended up being persuaded to bargain 1 of the astir costly successful the store.

It was a grey heavy heap carpet - for which they paid £2,000 to person successful 3 bedrooms, connected the stairs and connected the landing astir 5 years agone - and Maddy has called it their "biggest ‘home improvement’ regret".

In a video connected TikTok, she showed the carpet arsenic it presently looks connected the stairs.

While 1 broadside - the broadside "where no-one walks" - is inactive bully and "soft and fluffy", the mediate is "matted and truthful slippy".

And that's owed to the information that the mediate portion of the step is the astir walked connected portion of the step.

"We got these carpets successful our aboriginal twenties, we’d ne'er bought a carpet before, we didn’t cognize what we needed," Maddy added successful the TikTok caption.

"The salesman from SCS intelligibly wanted to get arsenic overmuch wealth from america arsenic possible.

"He showed america the softest, fluffiest (most expensive) carpet, and said it would past america forever!"

Maddy added they were truthful "wrong to person listened to him", adding that the carpet has really got to the constituent that it's truthful slippery, it's "dangerous".

"We volition beryllium changing the carpets erstwhile we tin spend to, and volition not beryllium going for the softest, fluffiest one!" she insisted.

"You unrecorded and larn I guess!"

Maddy besides revealed successful the comments conception that they "don't let shoes in" the house, truthful it wouldn't beryllium due to the fact that it was being walked connected with shoes that it had flattened.

"I've been successful carpets for 30 years," 1 idiosyncratic wrote successful the comments.

"Dead elemental - hard wearing carpets are hard, brushed wearing carpets are soft!"

"The antheral successful carpet close told us, if it feels bully connected your hands... don't bargain it!" different added.

"This is my biggest regret too, and getting grey laminate successful my surviving room," a 3rd sighed.

"Your carpeter should person told you this," different added.

"I went different time and was reasoning to bargain this they advised dormant against it, went with herringbone weave texture for the stairs - champion decision."

"Yeah it was decidedly an idiot who sold it to us. We had nary clue!" Maddy raged.

"I’m amazed they fitted that due to the fact that they should person told you it’s a slipping hazard!" idiosyncratic other wrote.

To which Maddy replied: "I cognize right! I’m perpetually slipping connected it!"

"Go for a hard wearing hessian benignant carpet, looks beauteous and lasts forever," different suggested.