Choosing A Carpet That Best Suits Your San Diego Home
Amidst all the flooring options, carpeting is the most preferred choice of many San
Diego homeowners for it provides comfort while cushioning the hard surface. Carpeting is far less expensive than hardwood flooring and stone tiling, and comes in abundant designs, colors, patterns and texture.
Choosing the most suited floor for your home can be a tough decision when all the options are equally attractive. Hardwood flooring classes your interiors up a notch, carpets add a sophisticated look, tiles make your place look more beautiful and concrete flooring is quite stylish and highly durable. Amidst these options, use of carpet covering for floors is catching up in San Diego. Carpet installation is an ideal option to improve the look of a floor and also a practical one.
It is the most comfortable flooring option and likely to provide you more options than any other flooring material, not to mention the lesser cost than the counterparts hardwood and stone tiles. Carpets come in a variety of styles, designs, colors, patterns along with different padding options that leave you unlimited choices. When choosing a carpet, the area of your home that needs to be carpeted is the major consideration. Moreover, the type of carpet plays a crucial role and so does your budget.
Other important factors are durability and style combined with color to give the layout of each room a distinct look and enhance the visual appearance. Therefore, carpeting is the right flooring solution that suits the interiors and your budget as well. Carpets come in different varieties:
* Berber, also known as high level loop, carpets have complete yarn loops standing upright that gives a nubby texture.
* Wool carpets are resistant to soil, comfortable, durable and have a natural look. More expensive than synthetic ones, these need to be installed at places away from direct sunlight to keep the wool fiber from fading away.
* Plush or cut-pile carpets comes with trimmed off loops that makes yarn ends poke up. The most popular variety is Saxony plush which has short, densely packed tufts.
* Sisal carpets are made using a natural fiber which is derived from a cactus plant. The texture of these carpets is rough, much like jute but are durable and strong.
* Synthetic carpets are made of fibers created by several artificial materials such as nylon, acrylic, olefin, and polyester:
* Due to its durability, nylon is the most popular and expensive fiber but is cheaper than wool fiber. Prolonged exposure to sunlight damages its texture.
* Polyesters fibers are not as much durable as nylon. Due to their smooth texture, they are more expensive and can be easily damaged when exposed to heat and sunlight.
* Olefin, another popular synthetic fiber is used both indoors and outdoors. This material is low-cost and requires less maintenance because it is usually pre-treated to resist fading.
* Very expensive, acrylics fibers are pretty much like wool in resemblance and are resistant to fading.
When it comes to
carpeting San Diego parents, not all, are apprehensive of installing them as children spill stuff that leaves stains on the carpets. Well, as conveniently and inexpensively a carpet is installed, is can be cleaned as well. On the flip side, there are parents who cover their expensive floor with carpets while their children are young and remove them after the kids have grown up. Plus, kids are less likely to get injured, if they trip and fall on a carpeted floor as opposed to hard ones. Likewise, objects don't shatter when knocked over on softer floor.
by: Mike Santilli
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