Carpets

Carpets are a hugely popular choice of flooring, in particular in areas of your home where comfort is important, like living rooms and bedrooms. Carpet designates a kind of flooring where a material is either woven or tufted to a backing cloth. Carpets are available in a huge array of colours and patterns to match any design of interior decoration, as well as in a wide variety of different kinds of fibre and piles. A few of the more popular types of fibre materials include the artificial fibres polypropylene and nylon, and the natural fibres wool, sisal, or jute. These types of carpet are normally available in short or deep pile and can be made by using a variety of manufacturing 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 diverse types of carpet are ranked according to their performance and how successfully they are suited to different levels of traffic. They are generally rated to be either medium domestic, meaning bedrooms or studies, heavy domestic, specifying living and dining rooms, and very heavy domestic, suitable for utility rooms or hallways. It is always recommended to install carpet with a layer of underlay underneath, as this will improve the look and feel of the carpet, as well as increasing its life and delivering better sound and thermal insulation.