Carpets

Carpets are an extremely popular choice of flooring, especially in rooms of the house where comfort is important, like living rooms and bedrooms. Carpet refers to a type of flooring where a material is either woven or tufted to a backing cloth. Carpets come in a wide variety of colours and styles to suit any design of interior decor, as well as in a number of different kinds of fibre and piles. A number of the more popular examples of fibre materials include the artificial fibres polypropylene and nylon, and the natural fibres wool, sisal, or jute. These types of carpet are commonly available in short or deep pile and can be made by using a range of manufacturing methods, such as twist, Saxony, loop pile, Berber, cut and loop, or velvet. Carpets may appear in patterned, plain or striped designs. All of the different kinds of carpet are graded according to their performance and how successfully they are suited to different amounts of traffic. They are normally graded 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 increase the look and feel of the carpet, as well as extending its life and offering better sound and thermal insulation.