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 · Formworks 3.01980 sqm

New stock available

Just listed.

Milliken Formworks 3.0 Camber carpet tile

Milliken Formworks 3.0 Camber

1980 sqm · Flooring/Modular Carpet · 50 cm x 50 cm (50.0 cm x 50.0 cm)
Location: London warehouse

£18.00 per sqm

Need this tile, or something close to it? Request a quote for surplus carpet tiles and we'll confirm what is still available before you commit.

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.

What we list

Boxed tiles, honestly described.

Carpet Unboxed deals in commercial modular carpet tile — the 50 cm square, heavy-contract product specified for offices, schools, housing and public buildings. Most of what we list has never left its box. It was ordered for a job, delivered to a job, and then never needed, because the cutting allowance was generous or the room count changed late in the programme.

Every listing records the things a flooring buyer actually asks about before committing: the manufacturer, the range, the colourway or dye lot, the quantity in square metres, and where the pallets are standing right now. Stock that cannot be described to that standard does not go on the feed, because a listing nobody can verify wastes everybody's time.

Quantities vary from a few boxes of maintenance spares to several thousand square metres of manufacturer surplus. Small lots matter as much as large ones — a repairs team patching a corridor needs twenty square metres of a discontinued range far more urgently than it needs a pallet.

Why it exists

A second route to market.

Surplus carpet tile has never had anywhere sensible to go. It moves by phone call, by WhatsApp photo, by someone remembering that a colleague on another site was short — or it does not move at all, and the pallets are eventually cleared to make room. The material is rarely the problem. The problem is that the person holding it and the person who needs it have no way of finding each other.

Carpet Unboxed extends from Welltek's circular-economy and carpet-tile reclaim work, which has spent years moving this material by hand. The marketplace is the same job done at scale: one place to look, one place to list, and a route that works whether you have four boxes or four hundred.

Common questions

Before you get in touch.

Is this second-hand carpet?

No. The stock we list is surplus, not reclaimed — unused material that was over-ordered, wrongly specified or held as spares. Where a listing is anything other than boxed and unused, it says so.

Which brands do you cover?

Our initial focus is Milliken, Tarkett, Interface and Shaw, the ranges most often specified on UK commercial projects. Other manufacturers appear as stock comes in, and the list is expanding.

How do I list stock I am holding?

Use the listing form and tell us the brand, range, colourway, quantity and location. If you would like us to collect rather than leave it with you, there is a box to tick.

What does it cost to look?

Nothing. Browsing what is available and sending an enquiry are free. Pricing is set per listing and shown on the product, so you can see what you are being asked to pay before you make contact.