CARPET | BEFORE YOU BUY

At Okanagan Hardwood Flooring + Tile, our sales team has an extensive knowledge about carpet, and we would love to show you all of the wonderful options available. 

Making sure you choose the right carpet for your lifestyle and budget is important to us.

1. PADDING

• Spend a bit more on your carpet pad – padding adds support, strength and cushioning.

• Made from foam or rubber materials, it conceals imperfections in the subfloor, and results in a better appearance overall.

• Is an insulator, absorbs sound.

• Supports your carpet preventing the backing and fibres from breaking down.

• Depending on the area of your home the carpet is installed in, different padding is used for different conditions.  High traffic areas require a firm pad, light traffic need less firmness.

• For Cut Pile of Loop carpet – 11mm pad with 2.7kg density per cubic foot

• For Thin Loop or Berber – 9.5mm or less, with 3.6kg density per cubic foot

2. STYLE

• Textured, Saxony, Frieze, Cable, Looped, Cut & Loop – so many choices, but each with different characteristics that lend themselves to certain applications – make sure you recognize which styles are best for your project.  Your lifestyle has to match your carpet.

• Textured carpet has fibres of varying heights which makes them reflect the light – perfect for hiding tracks and dirt.  A good choice for high traffic areas.

• A plush style carpet like Saxony may be soft and thick, but it will show footprints, vacuum tracks and areas that appear shaded because of a reversal of the carpet fibre direction.  Best for light-traffic areas like bedrooms and sitting rooms.