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Carpet is still the most popular choice when it comes to flooring. Carpet is a key decorative and functional element in a home. Because carpet is the foundation of decorating, it can provide simplicity and casualness for softness and comfort; or it can provide excitement with vibrant color and heavier textures, making a decorating "statement."

Carpet can be one of the easiest ways to personalize an environment - its color can be a neutral foundation "in the background," or it can be a vibrant focal point.

Carpet Fibers

The type of fiber used will help determine the carpet's appearance and performance. Synthetic fibers provide brilliant colors, easy maintenance, softness and outstanding value. Natural fibers provide soft, low luster colors, long term performance and other aesthetic qualities

There are different types of fibers, each with different characteristics:

Nylon: This is the most popular synthetic carpet fiber. It offers tremendous value, performance, and ease of maintenance. Nylon provides brilliant colors and helps to hide soil and traffic.

The most advanced nylon carpet fibers reduce dirt and soils ability to stick or transfer onto the surface of the carpet. These treated fibers will even bead up liquid spills rather than allowing to soak in. This makes carpets manufactured with these new generation fibers much easier to keep clean and looking like new longer.

Olefin: This fiber is also called polypropylene. Olefin is extremely popular in Berbers, level loops carpets and outdoor turf products. Olefin carpets are stain, static, mold, and mildew resistant. They can be used for indoor or outdoor carpets. Olefin's resistance to matting and crushing is not quite as good as nylon.

Polyester: Gives excellent color clarity with a soft feel to the carpet. Lacks the durability of a nylon carpet.

Soft Carpet Fibers: Some fiber manufacturers are producing fibers that feel as soft as cotton , yet will outperform many other conventional carpet fibers. The difference is that the nylon filaments are really much finer than the typical filaments (finer than a strand of hair) but twice as many fibers are packed into the strands of yarn. This gives carpets softness and strength.

Wool : A natural fiber, wool is luxurious and typically more expensive. Wool is noted for luxury and softness. Wool has high bulk and is available in many colors.

Carpet Fiber Stain Technology

A stain-resistant finish will resist many stains, but it will not resist all types of stains. It will resist most food and beverage stains, but will not resist household chemical stains.

R2X by Shaw is the most innovative carpet stain and soil repelling system and the product of years of research and testing. Spills remain on the surface for easy cleaning.

Let the Experts at Carpet House introduce you to today's carpets!

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