Carpet installation and sales by Floors in California

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All About Carpet!

There is no doubt that carpet offers homeowners more warmth, softness and comfort than any other floor covering. Today’s carpet styles, colors and textures blend well with a variety of other flooring products. From casual to formal you can always find carpet to enrich any interior setting and your lifestyle. There are carpets for all areas of the home where fashion and function are both important in selection.
· Carpet adds warmth and is soft under feet and easier on children’s knees.
· Carpet is much quieter than hard surface floors.
· Carpet comes in a wide variety of color tones and hues.
· Carpet is easy to decorate with and offers many solid color tones for rooms with patterned wall coverings.
· Carpet can hide many sub floor irregularities that would not be permitted with hard surface floors.
· Carpet can go over a variety of substrates and on all grade levels, even concrete slabs in basements.
· Carpet is economical and the installation costs are much less than some of the hard surface products.
Carpet is still the flooring of choice for many American homeowners where warmth and comfort are a priority in their decorating. Choosing the right color and style with confidence is easier if you have a basic understanding of today’s carpet fashions and how they apply to your personal tastes and lifestyle. About

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Color
Color is always first on our minds when it comes to choosing a floor. Consider how you want the carpet to coordinate with your interior. Do you want the carpet to be the focal point or blend with your interior?
Foot Traffic
High Traffic areas, such as hallways and entryways require durable carpets made of resilient fibers engineered to resist wear and abrasion, crushing and matting. Other areas, such as bedrooms and family rooms may have high traffic areas as well. Take a moment to inspect the carpet you are replacing before it is removed to identify high traffic areas in your home.

Performance
The performance and quality of a carpet is directly related to the amount and quality of fiber that goes into the pile. The better the fiber and the denser it is packed, the better the carpet will perform. Thin, less dense carpet will lose its surface appearance faster. It is best to buy the highest quality carpet and cushion that you can afford.

Carpet Fibers
The most common fibers used in carpet today are nylon, olefin, polyester and natural fibers such as wool or sisal. The inherent characteristics found in each of these fibers helps determine their use and color offering. Premium, nylon soft fibers are extremely popular and offer superior soil-hiding characteristics, comfort, durability and brilliant color palettes.

Soil Resistance
With soil-resistant treated carpets you no longer have to be afraid of choosing a lighter, more vibrant color to enhance your décor.

Stain Resistance
Most residential carpets offer some type of stain resistance. Those who enjoy entertaining or who have children and pets should consider carpets with high levels of stain resistance.

Carpet Construction
Carpet construction varies from loops, cut piles to patterns which produce different degrees of texture, appearance and durability. Each type of construction is designed to meet the diverse lifestyles of today’s families.

Carpet Cushion
Carpets last longer and perform better when the proper cushion is used underneath. Although carpet cushion is often thought of as an add-on it is an integral part of the carpet system.

Carpet types

Swatches of machine-made carpet

The global carpet market for domestic and industrial end use is dominated by three manufacturing processes:
Woven: The carpet is produced on a loom similar to woven cloth and is a cut pile. Normally many colored yarns are used and this process is capable of producing intricate patterns from pre-determined designs. These carpets are normally the highest value on the market.
Tufted: The carpet is produced on a tufting machine using a single coloured or sometimes non coloured yarn. If non coloured yarn is used the carpet will be dyed or printed with a design as a separate process. Tufted carpets can be either cut pile, loop pile or a combination of both. Tufting machines produce many more metres of carpet per hour than weaving does and normally are at the low to medium end of the market. Modern tufting technology now enables the production of mainly basic geometric patterns.
Needlefelt: These carpets are more technologically advanced. Needlefelts are produced by electrostatic attraction of individual synthetic fibers forming a unique carpet with extremely high durability. These carpets are normally found in the contract market such as hotels etc. where there is a lot of traffic.

A flatweave carpet is created by interlocking warp (vertical) and weft (horizontal) threads. Types of oriental flatwoven carpet include kilim, soumak, plain weave, and tapestry weave. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, damask, list, haircloth, and ingrain (aka double cloth, two-ply, triple cloth, or three-ply).
A hooked rug is a simple type of rug handmade by pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. This type of rug is now generally made as a handicraft.