Cluttered bedroom in need of new carpet.

We're having a new carpet in our bedroom & in the dining room in a week's time. The bedroom's been replastered so everything had to come out, then I've decorated (just topcoat on windowsill to do) so currently empty.
The dining room has a piano in, it's a Bentley, compact but still heavy & they don't like being moved. I intended to, but I'm ringing the company on tuesday to see if they can work round it after reading this thread.
I wouldn't get removal men for the cluttered bedroom, but definitely hire a man with a van to take some of the furniture to tip (although our tip doesn't allow vans).Or maybe BHS charity would collect? It is difficult moving furniture, DH not very helpful & because he's here I don't like asking anyone else.

I like Aldom's friend's solution - getting a tent pitched in the garden in order to sort out stuff .
I'm finding decluttering slow because anything sets my asthma off and lifting stuff gives me back ache .
I had a massive sort out last Monday and have had asthma and back ache all week .
Next session I'll wear a double mask and lift less !

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OP was querying this in August last year.

Wonder how it all went?

Last year my neighbour did something similar but with her lounge. She’s on her own. Very active but not up to moving furniture. She got a removal company to put it all in her garage and then put it back afterwards. It worked brilliantly for her. I imagine using storage would be quite expensive. It’s best to speak to the carpet fitter first to see what they want to be moved.

aonk

Last year my neighbour did something similar but with her lounge. She’s on her own. Very active but not up to moving furniture. She got a removal company to put it all in her garage and then put it back afterwards. It worked brilliantly for her. I imagine using storage would be quite expensive. It’s best to speak to the carpet fitter first to see what they want to be moved.

I would imagine the bedroom has been carpeted by now.
op dated August 2025

I know this is radical - but you are after all prepared to shell out quite a bit of money

Do you actually really need the big old bed and wardrobe?
could you ditch them and have a look at..... a slightly smaller, neater, new divan and ditching the wardrobe

and - alternative good quality but not posh storage that best neatly meets your storage needs? High/medium neat shelves, a fitted simple rail clothes storage...

I bet while you are sorting you'll find things that "don't need to come back"

The advantage of paying for storage is that you don't have all the hassle of moving things - the disadvantage is that you have to pay.

We had all the bedrooms decorated and recarpeted a couple of years ago, and it was a nightmare. We slept downstairs for days, whilst I co-ordinated carpet fitters, decorators and furniture delivery, and we moved wardrobes, beds and chests of drawers from room to room. It happened in the run up to Christmas, too. I don't know what I was thinking.

In one of those 'helpful' ways, a friend pointed out that someone she knows had hired removal men to take the beds and wardrobes away, keep them for a week or so then bring them back and reassemble them in the newly carpeted rooms. The advice was of the type that ends a time machine to follow it 😡, but I did store it for future reference. You wouldn't even need to empty the wardrobes, as they can move them full.

If money isn't a big consideration, I think it's a great idea, and sometimes these things cost less than you expect, so it might be worth getting a quote to find out what it would cost.

Arrange the fitting day with carpet supplier; early morning appointment.
Hire a van for two days starting the day before the fitters come

On day one, first load all the junk into the van, followed by the furniture /good you want to retain. Park van on your drive or the street.

Day two; carpet gets fitted. Put furniture /goods back in bedroom on new carpet. The junk is still at the far end of the van.Drive van to dump and offload the junk. Return van to hire Co.

5 MONTH OLD THREAD.

Hope it all got sorted.

blue14

I don't think it's necessary to put things in storage for a new carpet.

You could move the smaller furniture out into the landing or another bedroom. Do you have space in the other rooms?
The carpet fitters regularly fit carpets with the bed in the room.

I agree.
It’s easy to move the smaller stuff and the carpet fitters usually agree to move up to 3 larger pieces of furniture.

Calendargirl

5 MONTH OLD THREAD.

Hope it all got sorted.

I saw that but in this case responses may help anyone else a bit worried by having carpets fitted.

True Oreo.:

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Our carpet fitters worked round the bed somehow (it’s 5 ft). We had to pay them a bit extra. We just moved the bedside tables. Everything else is fitted furniture.