Carpet water damage has to be treated seriously. Not only are you faced with a potentially ruined carpet but you may also inadvertently create a health hazard for your family, if you don’t act quickly enough after an incident of flooding.
Of course, there are number of ways you can be flooded and more or
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If you missed Part 1 of this Carpet Buying Guide, you will find it here: Types of Carpet
Although I wrote the “Types of Carpet” post as a whole guide to buying carpet, I realized that deciding on the type of carpet you want to buy, is just one stage in the process you need to
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Buying a carpet is a big expense so you need to be aware of the various choices you have and what you are paying for. It can be quite difficult knowing which carpet to buy so the following guidelines should help you.
If your new carpet is for a hall, stairs or living room (areas
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If you are looking for cheap area rugs you are sure to find some but in many cases you will find low quality to match the low prices. If you want a quality rug, but you don’t have a big budget think about using bound carpet remnants.
Carpet remnants are pieces of carpet left behind
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Carpets do not stay looking good forever and they get damaged with the rough and tumble of family life. You drop a candle and get a small burn in the carpet or a guest at your party leaves a cigarette burn and another spills a glass of red wine. The carpet starts to wear or
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Whenever you buy a new carpet you have to think about carpet installation too. Will you do it yourself, get the store to arrange installation or arrange your own carpet installers? Of course, if you are experienced at installing carpet yourself then that is probably the best course of action as you will will save
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Your hall and staircase get a lot of wear and tear so you might think that stairs and carpet don’t mix however stair carpet is one of the best types of flooring for stairs. Not only does it look good and give an opulent look to your stairs which would otherwise look quite functional and
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Carpet samples are a great way to help you decide which carpet to buy. You can, of course, take a risk and decide on a carpet from a brochure, catalog or website but there are limitations in color printing (and in the display of carpet colors online) which mean that you will not get an
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Frieze carpet (pronounced “free-zay”) is a carpet with a particular cut pile where the fibers are very highly twisted, so twisted that they curl over at the ends. In fact this carpet may be called a “Twist Pile” in some places. The way the pile is cut and the twist give a textured effect and
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There are two types of carpet remnants. They are the pieces of carpet left over from the roll of carpet you bought after your carpet is fitted. And they are the remainder of the roll left in a shop which is left after the rest of the roll has been sold to customers – probably
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When you look at carpet prices in a store or online you will generally see the price quoted as so much per square foot or so much per meter squared. You would then think all you had to do to compare prices and find cheap carpets (or quality carpets that are less expensive than others)
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