Home Carpets – Luxurious Carpeting of all styles and fibres

Due to new fibre science and manufacturing technologies, carpet today is far superior to what was on the market a generation ago. Still the most popular floor covering choice for many reasons, carpet is an excellent value for your floor covering dollar, long-wearing, and easier than ever to maintain. Take a fresh look at today’s carpet, and the fabulous range of styles, textures, patterns, and colours now available, for unlimited decorating possibilities.

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THE BENEFITS OF DECORATING WITH CARPET:

Warm and comfortable: The physical properties of carpet make it an effective insulator helping to ease the cost of home heating or air conditioning by increasing the R-value of the carpeted space. Carpet is soft under foot for young and old, can help reduce leg and back fatigue, prevent slips, cushions falls and reduces the risk of falling objects breaking.

Beauty and style: Carpet is available in endless colours, styles, textures and patterns. From classic cut piles with elegant patterns to casual loops and fun friezes to contemporary prints and geometric texture subtleties that create understated designs, carpet is an important decor element that adds dimensional texture, pattern and colour to any space in the home.

Improved air quality: With proper cleaning and maintenance carpet can be beneficial in trapping and immobilizing potential allergy-causing particles, at the floor’s surface, preventing them from re-entering the air you breathe. All carpet available in a Sears Floor Covering Centre has been tested and approved according to the Carpet and Rug Institutes (CRI) strict measures of indoor air quality – look for the CRI or CRI PLUS label.

Quiet: Carpet is the perfect sound insulator and helps absorb the noises that come with everyday life – televisions, stereos, computers, children playing, etc. Carpet also works as a sound barrier between floors by helping block sound transmission to rooms below.

Easy cleaning and maintenance: with advanced fibre and manufacturing technologies, today’s carpets are more stain and soil resistant than ever before, making it easy to keep a carpet looking great for many years and even the toughest spills are a breeze to clean up. Visit our Carpet Carpet Care & Maintenance page for more details.

STYLES - CONSTRUCTION:

	Cut Pile: The tufted loops of the carpet are cut to expose the yarn ends.

	Textured Saxony: Soft, hides footprints and highly durable; ideal for high-traffic areas.

	Saxony Plush: Soft, luxurious velvet-like surface will show footprints; ideal for formal living areas.

	Frieze: Tightly twisted fibres easily hide footprints, long-lasting and highly durable compared to their earlier “shag” cousins; a popular new decor trend; ideal for high-traffic areas and cozy family rooms.

	Level-Loop Pile: The loops of the carpet remain uncut and are tufted at the same height for an informal look in high traffic areas.

	Level-Loop: Highly durable and hides footprints well; ideal for high-traffic areas.

Berber: Highly durable and hides footprints well with a wool-like appearance and rugged loop surface; ideal for high-traffic areas.

	Multi-Level Loop / Patterned Loop Pile: Similar to Loop Pile, with two or three varying loop heights to create a 3-dimensional pattern effect.

	Cut and Loop: Combining cut and looped yarns, this style provides a variety of surface textures, and patterns, including the sculptured effects of pin dots, botanicals, squares, checkerboards, chevrons and swirls.

STYLES – FIBRES:

The type of fibre used and the way the carpet is constructed will determine how well the carpet will stand up to spills, pets and daily traffic. There are four basic types of carpet pile fibres:

Nylon: The most popular carpet fibre because of its exceptional durability, wear-resistance and resiliency. It is very receptive to dying for colour versatility and uniformity, and can be remarkably soft. Most nylon carpets are usually treated to enhance stain resistance.

Polyester: Luxurious and soft to the touch, polyester carpets have excellent colour clarity and retention, and are also naturally stain and fade resistant.

Olefin (Polypropylene): Olefin carpets are water resistant and static electricity resistant. In the solution-dying process, the colour is actually blended right into the fibre in liquid form, thereby ensuring it will not fade, even when exposed to intense sunlight, bleaches, or other harsh chemicals or elements. Olefin is not as durable as other nylon and polyester fibres and should be used in low-traffic areas.

Wool: Wool is a natural fibre with excellent wear and resiliency and moderate stain and soil resistance. It is soft to the touch and has a luxurious appearance. Wool carpets are considerably more expensive than most synthetic carpets and should be used in low-traffic areas.

A number of carpet styles utilize a fibre blend, such as nylon and olefin. The blending of fibre types to form the carpet yarn is designed to combine the beneficial characteristics of each fibre, such as the resiliency of nylon and the fade resistance of olefin.

For more information, contact Sears Floor Covering Centre at one of the locations nearest you.