Carpet Enhances Your Home

The benefits of Carpets and Rugs are numerous. Residential Carpet provides actual thermal resistance or R-value. In colder climates or seasons, it retains warm air longer, an energy conservation benefit. Carpet also provides a comfortable place to sit, play, or work and gives a room an overall warmer feeling.

You can choose from many thousands of residential flooring styles and colors. That means your ultimate choice will reflect how you want to personalize your living space. Carpet can be a neutral foundation, or it can be a focal point with vibrant colors and more robust bolder patterns and textures that set the tone for the rest of the room.

New residential carpet is the lowest VOC-emitting flooring choice available. It acts as a passive air filter, trapping dust, pollen, and other particles and removing them from the breathing zone. Studies have shown that people with asthma and allergy problems have seen symptoms improve with carpet.

Carpet is ideal for cushioning our footsteps, reducing slips and falls, and minimizing injuries when falls do occur. Residential flooring provides safety protection for the whole family, but especially for toddlers and older individuals.

Big-screen TVs, speakerphones, computers, and modern sound systems make our homes noisy places. Carpet helps absorb these sounds. Adding a cushion pad beneath your carpet reduces noise even further. Carpet also works as a sound barrier between floors by helping to block sound transmission to rooms below. And carpet on stairs helps mask the sound of constant foot traffic.

Appearance: Carpeting adds to the décor by using color, patterns, and pile heights. The carpeting can create the image you want in your home or business.

Style: With the hundreds of patterns, cuts, and colors, there are thousands of possibilities to “fulfill” the style statement.

Insulation: Carpet can help save energy as it is an essential contributor to the insulation of the indoor environment. Carpet insulates floors as it provides a psychological feeling of warmth.

Feel: Try curling up in front of the fireplace on a hard surface floor. Carpet feels good, soft, and easier on the feet. It also gives a “softer” feel to the home.

Acoustics: Several studies find that carpets absorb sound, and carpets with padding further enhance this ability.

Safety: Invariably, slip-and-fall accidents occur on hard surface floors, not carpeted floors.

Cost savings: According to the IICRC, carpet usually costs less over time than hard surface flooring to purchase, clean, and maintain.*

Health: Carpet traps allergens, dust, and other contaminants, holding them until they can be properly removed.

Easier to maintain: Carpeting is less labor-intensive to clean and maintain than hard surface flooring and, because of this and as mentioned, can cost less to maintain, as well.

Sustainable: New technologies have been introduced allowing old carpet to be recycled into new carpet or other products; according to one manufacturer’s study, of 121 million pounds of worn carpet collected, 85 percent was recycled into new carpet, eliminating the need for acquiring raw materials.