Benefits of Carpeting

If you have ever woken upon a cold morning or watched a toddler tumble while taking its first few steps, then you already know why carpet is the flooring choice most favored by homeowners. It's is the most practical, fashionable and versatile flooring choice, and it accounts for more than half of all flooring purchases made each year. In fact, carpet has outsold every other type of floor covering for nearly 50 years.

Carpet offers many advantages that other flooring choices do not. Here's a few of the unique benefits that carpeting adds to your home - some you probably haven't thought of!

Warmth and Comfort

Carpet is the ideal choice for bedrooms, family rooms and other areas where warmth underfoot is crucial. It 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.

Safety

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

Sound Reduction

Big screen TVs, speaker phones, computers and modern sound systems make our homes noisy places. Carpeting reduces noise better than any other flooring choice. In fact, carpet dampens noise in three ways: reducing surface noise from foot traffic, absorbing airborne sound and blocking transmission of sound between floors. These qualities are especially valuable in apartments and semi-detached homes.

Adds Beauty and Style

You can choose from many thousands of carpet 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 stronger bolder patterns and textures. The addition, carpeting a room can disguise existing floor damage and hide other irregularities such as uneven or warped floors.

Easy Care

Carpet will maintain its life and beauty for many years when properly cleaned and maintained. Today's carpets are also more stain-resistant than ever before, making cleanups of even the worst spills a breeze.

Cleaner Air

Scientific studies have shown that carpet can improve indoor air quality by trapping potential allergy-causing particulates - if the carpet is properly cleaned and maintained.

Variety of Uses

Carpets aren't only for floors! Carpeting can be easily added to stairs, steps, walls, posts and other irregular and non-level surfaces, with no worry that it'll slip, lift or buckle.

Low Cost

Carpet offers an economical alternative to many other flooring choices, and installation costs are typically less than for hard surfaces.