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The Best Selling Carpet Type - For Your Home
Wed 21 Feb 2007 - 13:45
The Best Selling Carpet Type - For Your Home
By Carlo Morelli
The best selling carpet type is one that wears well, comes in colors that are popular at the time, is relatively easy to clean and features a look that won't date quickly or be out of fashion before it's even finished being laid.
Affordability
Textured cut pile is by far and away the most popular choice when people go shopping for carpets. Considering that most people like value for their money, a range of options to choose from and that they don't want to be a slave to their floor coverings, textured styles are the best selling carpet type ... unless you have money to burn, in which case, you can go for any style you could possibly want. With unlimited resources, you can afford to replace your carpet on a whim and you can pay someone to keep it looking beautiful for you.
Durability
Families typically choose textured carpets because of the durability combined with the soft feel. In a home where comfort is of paramount importance, you need something that feels good under foot, that looks great, matches the décor and won't look like something the cat dragged in after just a few months. What makes textured carpets the best selling carpet type for families is that they work in casual rooms as well as in more formal areas of the house. Lay the same carpet in the dining room as you would in the home theater room where everyone lays around on the floor, or kicks their shoes off to relax.
Good looks, easy care
Resistant to crushing, textured cut pile looks good whether you walk on it dozens of times a day or the room is away from pedestrian traffic altogether. It doesn't need to be vacuumed in any particular direction, so you can take a welcome break from those impossible track marks that some carpets inspire. You also won't see footprints indicating who's walked where! You could buy the world's best carpet, glorious, luxurious and sumptuous, only to have to avoid walking on it in case it spoils the pile. No, stick to textured styles and enjoy life instead!
You may not realize this but textured cut pile carpets are usually created using a single color, but by adding twists to some of the tufts, the random directions they sit in help to reflect light back in a different way. That's what makes it look like you have a two-tone carpet. Those carpets in which the extra twists are given to every tuft are known as Saxony carpets. Saxony is the best selling carpet type of the textured cuts because the visibility of footprints and vacuum tracks is even less evident.
For large families, enthusiastic entertainers and those who really don't want to worry about how their carpet will stand up to the tough treatment they dish out, berbers are one of the best selling carpet types for high traffic areas. Made of natural fibers and featuring big, uncut loops, berber is durable and robust and offers more of a casual look, rather than being suitable for your formal living areas. Landlords frequently use berber in their rental properties for its fire resistant properties, good looks and ability to stand up to the rough and tumble.
Most popular fiber
In terms of carpet fibers, the most popular is nylon, chosen 9 out of 10 times for residential applications for its durability and because it's static free. Nylon fibers maintain their color integrity because they are dyed post-production. Nylon is the best selling carpet fiber because it takes heavy furniture and high traffic well without collapsing under the pressure, it is resistant to mildew, stains and soil and can be produced in vibrant colors.
Shop wisely for your family's requirements. The best selling carpet type in the world may not, in fact, be suitable for your particular home, but at least you now have a good idea what other people swear by.
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