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Spoilt for choice
Choosing a carpet for your home is a major decision – it is also exciting and satisfying. While practicality is important, remember that your floor is a canvas through which you can express your individuality.
Whether your home is contemporary or classical, carpet has many advantages over other flooring options. So, when you’re choosing a suitable carpet for your home, consider the following.
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Carpet that is hard wearing can withstand heavy foot traffic and retain its appearance longer. |
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| Comfort |
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Carpet can provide year-round comfort and softness, increasing your enjoyment at home. It’s also pleasant for little feet and knees crawling around the room. |
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Loop pile gives a textured finish; cut pile offers a smooth even finish. Or you can choose a combination of both for a finish that really makes a statement. With carpet, there are no restrictions to the finish you can create. |
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| Colour |
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Unlike other floor coverings that have limited scope for colour, carpet uses both natural and synthetic fibres, which means there is a potential palette of over 1,000,000 colours to choose from. |
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A soft Godfrey Hirst carpet not only increases comfort around the home, they can reduce the risk of injuries that arise from slipping or falling. As carpet pile also absorbs pressure, the stress level on the body is also reduced |
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With proper maintenance a carpet is easy to clean and will resist dirt and stains (no matter how busy or messy life gets). Carpet also acts as a natural insulator, creating a quiet relaxing environment. |
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Carpet Styles
Each style of carpet has particular characteristics. Determining your needs will help you to decide the best style of carpet for your home.
Click the symbols below to read a full explanation of carpet styles
Cut Pile Plush |
Cut Pile Twist |
Loop Pile |
Sisal |
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Textured Loop and Cut Pile |
Level Loop and Cut Pile |
High Low Loop |
Frieze |
Loop Pile
A looped carpet is, as the name suggests, where the carpet pile forms a loop. The yarn is threaded through the backing then sewn back through – creating a loop of yarn. There are several types of loop pile carpets. The more common ones are level loops, sisals, textured loops and multi-level loops. Each creates a very distinct look in the home. Loop pile carpets are hard wearing, durable and do not have a tendency to show tracking (footprints) as often as other carpet types. |
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Frieze
Frieze carpets are
characterised by a long-cut pile that lies in different directions, providing a deep texture and shaggy appearance. The quality of
frieze carpets has improved with better yarns and more varied constructions, such as mixing thick and thin as well as long and short yarns. This carpet style is extremely durable and provides a sensual and luxurious feel. |
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Cut Pile Plush
Cut pile carpets are achieved by cutting the tops of the loops so the pile stands upright with an even smooth surface. The yarn is constructed with a slight twist, which has been chemically or heat set. This creates a carpet with a very soft, luxurious look. Plush pile carpet has a tendency to display temporary shading from footprints and vacuuming. This is regarded as a characteristic of this style, but has no detrimental effect on the performance of the carpet. |
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Cut Pile Twist
Cut pile twist carpets are constructed with a higher twisted yarn causing the pile to lay in different directions, giving a more textured appearance. Twist pile carpets are hard wearing and maintain their finish. Because they have a more textured finish, they are also less likely to show traces of shading or tracking within the pile. |
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Hi/Lo loop Pile
This style of carpet is made using loops of various heights, giving a textured finish to the surface of the carpet. Hi/Lo loop pile carpets are exceptionally durable. |
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Textured Loop and Cut Pile
Just as it sounds, this style of carpet is a combination of both cut and loop tufts. The tufts can be of different height, giving a textured and patterned appearance. |
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Level Loop and Cut Pile
This latest carpet style is a combination of level loop and cut tufts. It has a stylish finish with a soft, smooth feel. Because of its unique construction, a range of distinctive patterns can be combined with colours that appeal to individual tastes. |
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Sisal
Sisal is a loop pile carpet made with textured loops in straight rows. The height of the loops can be varied to produce different patterns and textures. This style of carpet is very popular due to its classical appearance and adaptability to almost any interior design. |
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Fibre Types
Your space, your choice of carpet fibre
Click the list below to read a full explanation of fibre types
Natural wool
Versatile nylon
Wool/nylon blends
Statron® Solution Dyed Nylon
Fibrelon®
Cost-effective polypropylene
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Wool/Nylon Blends
Blend carpets are made up of varying percentages of wool and synthetic fibres, offering the resilience and durability of nylon fibres with the natural appearance and luxurious feel of wool.
Used primarily in Cut
Plush Pile and Twist Pile carpet styles, the added
composition of nylon fibres assist in holding the
twist definition, therefore providing improved
wearing ability and reduced shedding from short
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Cost-Effective Polypropylene
Manufactured using synthetic fibres, polypropylene fibres have many similar properties and benefits as nylon fibres. Polypropylene yarn has excellent colourfastness properties with the incidence of sunlight and ozone fading greatly reduced, and also contains anti-static properties. Carpets manufactured using polypropylene yarn provide value for the budget conscious consumer. |
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