How to choose a carpet

A lot of requirements are presented to modern flooring, among them such as durability, strength, softness, safety, excellent sound and heat-insulating properties, simplicity and comfort during operation. And all these requirements are met by carpet. But the market presents many types of carpet of different price segment, color, material and manufacturers of the carpet, taffeton, coalington and domo, wool and synthetic carpet. Let's understand all this diversity together.

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Carpet structure

With the onset of winter, we have problems with the temperature of the flooring, laminate or linoleum does not allow to move without home shoes in the room. Of course, you can equip a warm floor with heating or replace the coating with a warmer, for example, lay a natural carpet, but not everyone can afford. In addition, you can not always find a carpet that coincides exactly in size to your room. But there is an alternative to such expensive ways to buy carpet.

The carpet is pleasant to the touch and has an attractive appearance. The world of this product is quite diverse: these are various production methods and a chic color scheme. Since to choose a carpet taking into account all the requirements, features of the premises and financial capabilities of consumers? And you need to start by studying the manufacture and structure of the carpet.

The structure of modern carpet is almost always the same. If you look in the context of the carpet, you can distinguish the following components: pile, base (primary lining) and secondary lining, which consists of a fixing layer and a lining itself, usually from latex. An important characteristic of the carpet is the composition of the yarn, which is used for its production.

Natural and synthetic carpet

Modern carpet is made of synthetic and natural threads. Distinguishing a natural product from an artificial is quite simple, a thread of carpet from wool smolders on fire, and the artificial melts.

Natural materials

Among the most commonly used flax, paper, sisal, cotton, jute, silk, natural wool or coconut. Natural materials for the manufacture of carpet do not release toxic substances, they are completely safe. However, the minimum price of a meter of natural carpet is $ 15-20. In addition, natural carpet with improper care can be covered with mold and turn a treat for insects.

Wool

Among the products made of natural material, the most common are purely woolen or mixture, which contain 10 - 30% wool. The advantages of carpet coating from woolen yarn are excellent elasticity, a low level of moisture permeability and ignorance, ease of care and average wear resistance, which allows you to consider wool to elite materials. However, it has a woolen carpet and its shortcomings - low wear resistance and high cost.

Linen

Carpet, which is made of linen pile, has high performance: strength, hypoallergenicity, wear resistance, high levels of resistance to pollution and mechanical damage, and also has an excellent appearance.

Silk

Carpet from silk pile is characterized by high performance, which affects a large extent at its price. This type of carpet is characterized by strength and low weight, is resistant to damage, does not accumulate dust and crushes.

Cotton

The cotton coating is characterized by lower wear -resistant properties than the linseed and silk coating, but it differs with high hygroscopicity, so excess moisture is rapidly absorbed, and then evaporates from its surface. This material is well stained and retains color saturation for a long time.

Artificial materials

Nowadays, widespread artificial materials for the production of carpet yarn are polyamide, polyester, polyacril and polypropylene.

Polyamide

Nylon coatings made of polyamide are favorably different from other artificial species, they are soft, do not fade over time, hold a pile perfectly, which does not become cooked, easily cleaned. The useful operation of nylon carpet is 10 15 years. But for polyester and acrylic, it is limited to only 5 8 years.

Polyamide gained great popularity thanks to a number of advantages over polypropylene. Polyamide is characterized by a higher melting point (267 versus 165 degrees Celsius in polypropylene), so only the fireproof polyamide satisfies SNiP, since it does not burn from cigarettes and other hot objects.

Polypropylene

Polypropylene is called a cheap analogue of nylon. Olefin has resistance to spots and dirt, antistaticity, resistance to fading. However, polypropylene carpet, even with a larger mass of pile, does not reach the characteristics of polyamide coating. In addition, polypropylene carpets are unpleasant to the touch, a kind of creak is felt, they have an unpleasant synthetic shine, a high level of wear and deformation. Thus, polypropylene fiber has only one advantage over other materials of the lower cost.

Polyester

Polyester is also attributed to cheap synthetic materials, which can be used for the manufacture of carpet. In terms of its characteristics, it is not inferior to nylon in anything, but at the same time it has the rigidity and intense gloss of the pile, as in the photo of the carpet.

Polyacryl

Polyacryl is the last in the line of synthetic carpet coatings according to operational characteristics. This is a cheap material that has a serve and soft pile. It is mainly used not independently, but as additional material in the manufacture of carpet. The service life of the material reaches only to 3-5 years.

To give preference to an artificial or natural product, of course, decide. To begin with, it is worth analyzing all the advantages and disadvantages that we have brought above. Use the option of buying a synthetic carpet if your budget is modest or you want to save. In addition, the flooring will have time to get bored in 5-8 years. If you have the opportunity to buy an expensive natural carpet, it is better to use this option, such a product has plenty of advantages.

Methodology for the production of carpet

There are such main types of carpet that differ in the manufacturing method:

Woven carpet. Such a coating is based on jute and is the most expensive, but this compensates for its highest strength. The method of production of woven carpet is such as for ordinary carpets, the basis is a net. The pile is made of artificial or natural fibers. The pile and the base weave together and at the same time. This material is made slowly, so it is quite expensive. The composition of woven carpet often includes nylon (approximately 20%) or pure wool.
Tafing carpet. Such carpet coatings, as a rule, are covered with the inside of latex, and at the top they consist of pile or loops, or their combinations. Neva taffer carpet is made using glue, which is fixed at the base. The drawing in the manufacture is hard, hard -resistant and voluminous, since the pile used can have different lengths. This coating looks just lovely, but some difficulties in care arise.
Needle -punched carpet. Such coatings are made from mixed threads, which are attached to one another, in this way: a thick fibrous base is pierced with the help of special needles, driving mainly, a second base of rubber is often present. Therefore, such a carpet is very resistant to mechanical influences, completely absorbs a variety of sounds and has a long service life. Typically, the price of an needle -grinding carpet is small. Such a carpet coating in appearance is similar to felt, its surface is a bottomless.
Flocked flooring is made on the basis of polyhlorvinil with three -millimeter villi fixed on it. Such a carpet is a waterproof, resistant to high moisture, is easily cleaned. Most often, it is preferred to lay it in kitchens, in bathrooms, toilets.

Features of carpet pile

Before choosing a carpet, you should pay attention to his pile. Among the types of carpet, depending on his pile is distinguished:

Scroll. This carpet combines different in color and height of the thread. This indicator allows the coating to stand out among analogues and provides a spectacular appearance. The downside is a rather complicated care.
Velours. Such a carpet has a short cut pile, which is soft or hard. On the surface, prints and stains of shoes are often visible, but it is easy to take care of velor carpet.
Saxony. Such a carpet is made using twisted yarn, which looks like a grain. They use pile, which has a length of up to 40 millimeters. This coating is attributed to elite.
Vroll. This type of carpet is a coating with several levels in which multi -colored threads are used. Regarding the pricing policy, the scroll is not particularly expensive and does not need careful care.
Catallup. A similar carpet in itself combines high and low cut fabrics. Thanks to this effect, an original image is created, which can perfectly hide all sorts of spots on the surface.
Felt. This carpet is made by compressing a pair of layers of card yarn, which is saturated with a special chemical solution. This coating is characterized by incredible practicality, regardless of its external fragility. Additionally, you can treat such a carpet with a water -repellent agent that protects from stains. Fetter carpet does not require special care.
Shag. Such a variety of carpet coating is made of coarse pile, which has a height of about 30 40 millimeters.
Book. This floor covering is made by knitting the nodes with the eyes, so the carpet Bukla is distinguished by an unusual beautiful shape. In addition, this carpet coating is incredible practicality, there are no traces of furniture on it.
Frieze. In the production of such carpet coating, twisted yarn is used, as in the manufacture of saxoni. However, not a homogeneous pile is used, but a curly, which allows you to hide various contaminants and traces of shoes, and also does not require special care.

The purpose of the carpet

When choosing a carpet, it is recommended to pay great attention to where it will be operated. There is a common European standard under the marking of EN685, manufacturers, relying on it, assign each type of flooring, including carpet from Belgium, a certain class corresponding to the intensity of the use of carpet. The coating class is indicated without fail on the catalog.

Carpet, depending on the strength characteristics, can be assigned one of these classes: for premises of housing - 21, 22, or 23, for public premises - 31, 32, 33. If the carpet is assigned a high class, then you can use it in all rooms with lower requirements for the strength of the material. That is, Class 33 carpet will serve in premises with a request from 21 to 32 classes. However, it is better not to lay the carpet of class 22 in a large office, since its service life will be much reduced.

There are other carpet parameters, such as the weight and height of the pile, the number of loops on one meter is square, but they are intended for a narrow circle of specialists. They serve to further determine the class of carpet, its sound -absorbing and soundproofing properties, etc. If you concentrate your choice exclusively on technical indicators, you can be very mistaken, since, for example, the large weight of the pile does not mean that the carpet is the maximum class, and it may indicate that there is a large height of the pile in such a carpet in such a carpet. He, as a result, will be trampled too quickly.

For each room, in a word, you need to choose your own version of the carpet coating carpet Astra, Neva or Balt. The same type of carpet will simply be inappropriate for all housing. Consider the choice of carpet depending on the premises in which it will be stacked:

The hallway and the corridor these rooms are greatly subjected to dust and dirt. For the hallway and the corridor, you need to choose a carpet with a short and dense pile that has the ability to push dirt. The best solution in this case is a rubber -based carpet carpet.
The kitchen, dining room, bathroom are rooms that are at risk of spots. When buying a carpet to the kitchen or in the bathroom, it is worth considering the immunity of coating to chemicals and dyes, the presence of water -repellent and dirt -repellent properties, as well as the ease of cleaning.
The living room is an intensive use room. In this room you need a coating with a high level of repulsion of dust, sand and dirt, unbroken carpet with decorative properties and medium pile.
The children's room is the most lively room in the apartment. Children here play, jump, run and draw with paints. Therefore, the most important criterion when buying a carpet in the nursery is the ease of cleaning and care. In addition, the coating should not be marking and not accumulating dust. It is better to give preference to natural material.
The bedroom is a room for non -intensive use. The carpet in the bedroom, unlike other rooms, is less polluted. It should have antistatic properties, be attractive in appearance and to the touch. A high carpet is suitable for use in the bedroom. It is recommended to choose a material that does not accumulate dust (as well as for the nursery) and which is easily cleaned, from mixed or natural fibers of a small density.

The color scheme of the carpet

To choose a carpet suitable for the room, it is recommended to take into account its color scheme of the interior. In this case, it is recommended to pay attention to the method of staining the carpet. The most persistent are synthetic carpets that are made of color synthetic mass. Paints are erased very quickly or burned out, which are applied to the carpet in a stencil way, when the picture is made on the finished carpet.

It is not difficult to distinguish the carpet that is painted after manufacturing: the villi is not painted to the base. The carpet of natural fibers is also burned out, but its color will last much longer, since the thread is painted, not the coating. Choose a color carpet Balta, Wellington or Domo of high density: the more tightly the villi adjusts to each other, the less the carpet wipes and glosses.

The carpet coating of warm and light tones can give the comfort of poorly lit and shadow rooms. Dark or pastel shades look good in sunny rooms. A blue or green color scheme is suitable for the living room and corridor, and it is best to make a choice in favor of gray, beige or peach color for the bedroom.
The floor covering of a light color optically expands a small room. The simplicity of the carpet drawing allows you to lay it in any required directions, without causing damage to the general composition to the interior.

Carpet manufacturers

Today, the most famous in our market are the following brands of carpet: Dura, Desso, ITC, Domo carpet, Ege, Maltzahn Carpets, Infloor, Mohawk, Berry, Balsan and others. Among Carpet manufacturing countries, the products of Belgian, Dutch, German and American firms are occupied by the leading positions. Let's look at several carpet manufacturers who are popular in our market.

Carpet from Dura is very famous in the West and in our country. One of the most demanded DURA carpets in the Dura carpet is considered a special carpet that is able to process and absorb all unpleasant odors. This material has established itself well in offices, hotels, entertainment centers and residential premises.

The Armstrong Desso trademark carp occupies a leading position on the market, demonstrates high quality and excellent indicators for wear resistance. This carpet has a special Teflon Anti -Great Protection, which is relevant for use. Care for this carpet can be carried out using aggressive cleaners due to the presence of Solution Dyed fibers.

Brintons carpet is one of the leading trends in the manufacture of woven carpets. The Brintons carpet contains 80% of the wool and only 20% of nylon. Brintons carpet is considered to be a coat of coatings, the base of the base in which are tightly intertwined with a pile. The threads are painted before the start of the carpet, and anti -allergenic compounds are treated.

MALTZAHN CARPets carpet coatings are primarily represented by tafing carpet. The material is 100% synthetic, as well as mixed (80% wool, 20% nylon). Their assortment is represented by standard collections and a ruler with a special design.

The carpet from Mohawk is represented in our market mainly tapting carpet with 100% nylon content or a mixture of nylon with polypropylene. Similar carpets, by the way, are very relevant for the Russian market.

Carpet from German companies Infloor and Girloon, which belongs to one owner, consists of Antron and Polyamide nylon. This is a fairly strong fiber, in the production of which nylon with an index of 6.6 is used. In addition, you should pay attention to Domo or Wellington carpet.

In any case, choosing a carpet and making a decision, you need to remember that the desire to save often leads to quick repeated waste, so it is better to treat the carpet as well. Only you decide what is more important - a short -term effect or long operation of high -quality carpet.

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