Carpets

Carpets are an extremely popular choice of flooring, especially in rooms of your home where comfort is important, like living rooms and bedrooms. Carpet refers to a variety of flooring where a material is either woven or tufted to a backing cloth. Carpets come in a wide array of colours and patterns to suit any design of interior decoration, as well as in many different types of fibre and piles. Some of the more prevalent examples of fibre materials include the synthetic fibres polypropylene and nylon, and the natural fibres wool, sisal, or jute. These kinds of carpet are usually available in short or deep pile and can be manufactured using a variety of production methods, such as twist, Saxony, loop pile, Berber, cut and loop, or velvet. Carpets can come in patterned, plain or striped designs. All of the various kinds of carpet are ranked according to their performance and how successfully they stand up to different levels of traffic. They are usually graded 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 fit carpet with a layer of underlay underneath, as this will increase the appearance of the carpet, as well as extending its life and delivering better sound and thermal insulation.