UK's live marketplace for surplus carpet tiles

Hidden stock,
uncovered.

Over 100,000 sqm of boxed, unused carpet tiles sit idle across the UK right now — over-orders, spares, wrong-spec deliveries, dye-lot mismatches, manufacturer surplus. Fit for use. Usually thrown away. Carpet Unboxed makes it visible, searchable and saleable, before it's scrapped.

100k+
sqm idle in the UK right now
4
anchor brands to start
£0
structured marketplaces today

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Milliken · Colour Compose480 sqm · Leeds
Interface · Human Nature210 sqm · Manchester
Tarkett · Desso AirMaster900 sqm · Birmingham
100,000+
sqm of usable, boxed carpet tiles sitting idle across the UK at any given time.
£0
structured marketplaces serving this stock today — it moves by phone call and WhatsApp, or not at all.
4
anchor brands in our initial focus: Milliken, Tarkett, Interface and Shaw.

The problem

Good material, gone missing.

Surplus boxed carpet tiles accumulate for entirely ordinary reasons on every commercial flooring project in the country. Individually, these pockets of stock are small. Collectively, they're a large, continuously replenished pool of usable material with no route to market — so it ends up landfilled, incinerated, or dead stock on a shelf.

Over-orders

Installers and main contractors order a safety margin that's never used.

Spares

Client-held maintenance stock that turns out to be surplus to requirement.

Wrong specification

Correct brand and range, but the wrong colour, pattern or backing.

Wrong batch

Dye-lot mismatches that can't be used on the original job.

Manufacturer surplus

Discontinued lines, short-run overproduction and returns.