Category: Flooring Guide

When choosing a carpet, many focus on colour, texture, and pattern. But the backing, the material layer attached to the underside of the carpet, plays a crucial role in its performance, durability, and comfort.

Carpet backing affects everything from how the carpet feels underfoot to its longevity and suitability for various environments.

This guide will walk you through the different types of carpet backing available, highlighting the pros and cons of each.

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Worried about dirt, muck and stains on your carpet? You’re not alone. When it comes to choosing a colour of carpet, choosing the colour which best hides dirt can be an important decision to make.

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When it comes to picking out the perfect carpet for your home, there’s plenty of things to consider.

This handy guide will steer you into the right direction when it comes to choosing carpet, whether you’re looking for a full home upgrade or refreshing one room.

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When it comes to putting down a carpet, you might be wondering whether or not you need underlay.

This largely comes down to the backing of the carpet, as well as the comfort you want underfoot.

If you have a carpet with felt backing, underlay is not required, but is recommended. Choosing a carpet with a textile or latex backing will require underlay, to avoid uneven surfaces.

Simply put, you should always choose underlay, unless you have a good reason not to.

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When it comes to refreshing a room and giving it a full make-over, you might looking to update your walls as well as your floor. The question that’s often asked is should you fit a new carpet first or paint?

The easiest and most obvious answer is that you should paint your walls before fitting a carpet or laying a floor.

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When it comes to getting new carpets or flooring in your home, you might be considering a few design choices.

If you’re looking at getting your full house done, or multiple rooms, you may be thinking should you go for a different carpet in each room, or should you match every room.

The answer is that you can design your home the way you like. That means you can fit the same carpet in different rooms, or go for a completely different look in each room.

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When it comes to picking out flooring for your home, there’s plenty of options available.

Two of the most popular choices are carpet and laminate flooring. So, which is the best and which should you choose.

The answer is of course subjective, and there’s both positives and negatives in choosing either.

To help you along, here’s the pros and cons of both carpet and laminate flooring.

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If you’re getting a new carpet fitted then you’re probably excited to get it down on the floor to make your room look the part.

But how long does it take? Well, it depends.

Typically it can take as little as an hour to fit a single bedroom up to a couple of hours for an average lounge or double bedroom and up to three or four hours for a more complicated larger lounge/diner for example.

Stair carpets are generally the most time consuming areas to fit and on average the fitting times would be a couple of hours for a smaller top landing and stairs, up to 4 hours for an average 3 bed semi if full hall stairs and landing, and up to a full day for more complicated staircases, town houses, “double” staircase to a loft conversion for example.

If you are having a full house fitted in carpets then a reasonable guide would be a modern 3 bed home would be completed by a two man fitting team in a day. Larger homes, 4, 5 beds, multiple en suites etc would possibly run into a second day.

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The lifespan of a carpet can vary for a number of reasons, but a carpet should last between 5 – 20 years before you need to replace it.

There are of course many reasons to replace your carpet. Some out of necessity, and others out of choice.

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If you’ve got a busy household, then choosing some hard wearing carpets can be an investment.

Stain resistant carpets that are easily cleaned are great if you have a lot of people in your rooms.

From luxury Saxony carpets to Berbers, here’s some of our best hard wearing carpets you can buy today.

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