Carpet 101: All You Need To Know About Carpets

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Carpeting adds warmth and comfortto your home by increasing thesound absorption and insulation,ensuring your floor is warm inwinter and cool in summer. Carpetcan be easily installed over manykinds of surfaces, even hidingirregularities in your sub floor. Acarpeted floor is a beautifulfunctional, and economical flooringoption for families with kids andpets. Carpet is constructed inseveral different ways, and from avariety of fibers. Understanding thestrengths and difference of each willhelp you make the right choices foryour lifestyle and budget.

CARPET CONSTRUCTION

01L O O PC O N S T R U C T I O N

carpet has dense, looped strandsand a low profile for a clean, lowmaintenance look. Loop carpetcan also be found in a patternedloop style, patterned loop usuallyhas two to three different loopheights to create pattern effects.This style is durable, reliable, andideal for high-traffic areas.

02P A T T E R NC O N S T R U C T I O N

carpet is made with varying loopand cut heights yarns. Patternstyle provides variety of surfacetextures, including sculptedeffects of squares, chevrons andswirls. The multicolor effectshide soil and stains for a lowprofile that handles trafficbeautifully.

03T E X T U R EC O N S T R U C T I O N

carpet has long, crimped yarnsfor a casual look that works forany room. With higher pile for asuper soft feel, that helps hidefootprints and vacuum mark's it'sno wonder that texture is themost popular style in the market.

04F R I E Z EC O N S T R U C T I O N

or twist construction carpet hashigh, twisted yarns for a longercrimped look and relaxed feel.It's long twists create dimensionand visual interest as well as abouncy, springy feel underfoot.

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