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Tips for selecting the right Carpet for your home

Filed under: Carpet — Tags: Carpet, Carpet Care — admin @ 9:31 pm

Carpet- nothing looks like it, feels like it or performs like it. It enhances the peace and quiet of your home by absorbing sound. It insulates against cold, cushions for comfort, adds safety against slips and falls, and protects against damage to objects being dropped. As a key decorative element in your home, no other product gives the enormous differentiation between styles and colors like Carpet. A question that gets asked repeatedly of me while working with clients is what is the best Carpet? This is a much more complicated question than it first looks so for the purpose of this Blog I will try and help with some educational basics.

Carpet as we know it today has three key elements. The yarn used in the carpet, the construction or twist of the product, and the weight of the carpet. Stain treatment is very important as well but is a separate topic that will be discussed later. For something we use everyday Carpet is very misunderstood. Carpet durability is not a function of how heavy it is. I know this is surprising to many but I use an example of some of the most durable carpets made today for commercial use in banks and lobbies often weigh 20-26 ounces. The products are constructed in a way to allow maximum performance.

I will continue o this subject soon.

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November 4, 2009

Tips for selecting the right Carpet for your home