Carpets

Carpets are an extremely popular selection of flooring, particularly in rooms of the home where comfort is essential, like living rooms and bedrooms. Carpet designates a kind of flooring where a material is either woven or tufted to a backing cloth. Carpets come in a huge array of colours and patterns to suit any style of interior decoration, as well as in many different types of fibre and piles. Some of the more common examples of fibre materials include the artificial fibres polypropylene and nylon, and the natural fibres wool, sisal, or jute. These kinds of carpet are commonly available in short or deep pile and can be made by using a variety of production methods, such as twist, Saxony, loop pile, Berber, cut and loop, or velvet. Carpets are available in patterned, plain or striped designs. All of the different types of carpet are graded according to their performance and how well they stand up to different amounts of traffic. They are normally rated 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 extending its life and providing better sound and thermal insulation.