Carpets

Carpets are an extremely popular choice of flooring, especially in rooms of your home where comfort is essential, like living rooms and bedrooms. Carpet identifies 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 accommodate any type of interior decoration, as well as in a multitude of different kinds of fibre and piles. Several of the more widespread types 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 produced by utilising a variety of production methods, such as twist, Saxony, loop pile, Berber, cut and loop, or velvet. Carpets may come in patterned, plain or striped designs. All of these various types of carpet are graded according to their performance and how effectively they are suited 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 can improve the look and feel of the carpet, as well as increasing its life and delivering better sound and thermal insulation.