Flooring prices saw deflation return after a four month absence in August.
After three months of inflation (0.2%, 0.4% and 0.1%), deflation was 1.5%, according to ONS data.
Deflation accelerated for smooth flooring, as it climbed from 3.2% to 4.1%.
Of the past 13 months, deflation has happened in 11 of them: inflation made a rare appearance at 0.2% in September 2024 and there was no inflation or deflation (0%) in November 2024.
Carpets and rugs experienced neither inflation or deflation (0%) in August 2025: the second time this has happened this year: following rates of 0.8%, -1.8%, -1/8%, 0%, 0.6% and 0.7%.
Household textiles saw inflation jump significantly, as furnishing fabrics and bed linen prices climbed.
Household textiles’ CPI rate rose from 1.4% to 2.3%: its highest rate in more than a year.
This was fuelled by the inflation rate for furnishing fabrics and curtains climbing from 1.4% to 2.6% and bed linen from 0.8% to 1.7%.
Table and bed linen recorded the first consecutive months of inflation, static at 3.3%, in over a year.
