Carpets

Carpets are a very popular choice of flooring, particularly in rooms of your house where comfort is essential, like living spaces and bedrooms. Carpet is the term for a type of flooring where a material is either woven or tufted to a backing cloth. Carpets are available in a huge range of colours and styles to complement any design of interior decoration, as well as in many different kinds of fibre and piles. A number of the more prevalent examples of fibre materials include the artificial fibres polypropylene and nylon, and the natural fibres wool, sisal, or jute. These types of carpet are frequently available in short or deep pile and can be made by utilising 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 the different kinds of carpet are categorised according to their performance and how effectively they stand up to different levels of traffic. They are generally 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 increasing its life and delivering better sound and thermal insulation.