Carpets

Carpets are a hugely popular preference of flooring, particularly in rooms of your home where comfort is crucial, like living spaces and bedrooms. Carpet is the term for a kind of flooring in which a material is either woven or tufted to a backing cloth. Carpets are available in a huge variety of colours and styles to match any design of interior decoration, as well as in a multitude of different kinds of fibre and piles. Several of the more common types of fibre materials include the synthetic fibres polypropylene and nylon, and the natural fibres wool, sisal, or jute. These types of carpet are generally available in short or deep pile and can be manufactured using a range of manufacturing methods, such as twist, Saxony, loop pile, Berber, cut and loop, or velvet. Carpets can come in patterned, plain or striped designs. All of these diverse types of carpet are scored according to their performance and how effectively they are suited to different amounts of traffic. They are usually specified to be either medium domestic, meaning bedrooms or studies, heavy domestic, specifying living and dining rooms, and very heavy domestic, suited to utility rooms or hallways. It is always recommended to install carpet with a layer of underlay underneath, as this will improve the appearance of the carpet, as well as increasing its life and offering better sound and thermal insulation.