Five Reasons Why You Should Have Carpet in the Home

While you do need to whip the vacuum cleaner over your carpet, there is little other maintenance compared to the upkeep of hard wood floors or laminates.  And if you buy one of our easy clean carpets (see our Sensation, Apollo and Primo collections), cleaning becomes less of a chore - plus you have the added reassurance of a 10-year stain and wear warranty. The key to good carpet maintenance is to vacuum once or twice a week, use a large doormat and avoid laying light coloured carpets next to external entrances.

Forget footsteps clacking against wooden floors, a large surround sound system vibrating or noisy children playing upstairs, one of the major benefits of having carpet in the home is that it absorbs sound.  Not only does carpet absorb up to 10 times more sound than hard flooring but it generates less too.

Over the decades' studies have shown that carpet reduces the number of allergens in the air as compared to hard flooring. Carpet prevents allergens from becoming airborne by trapping them in the fibres of the carpet, helping to keep them out of the air. Vacuuming the carpet then removes the trapped allergens completely.