Among the materials for flooring, carpet is gaining special popularity today. To choose this material as a coating, you need to have a clear idea of both the advantages and disadvantages of carpet.
Advantages of Carpeting
The positive aspects of modern carpet are much more than the negative. In a room covered with carpet, it is always warm, cozy and comfortable, this material is quite resistant to various kinds of pollution, it is durable and wear-resistant.
A wide range of color and texture solutions allows you to choose a coating for any interior. For a long time, the carpet retains heat in the room, it has sound-absorbing properties. When walking on carpeting, the load on the joints and spine decreases.
Even in the manufacture of modern coatings, they are treated with special fire-fighting substances.
Carpet Myths
And finally, the most common myth about carpet is the “terrible and dangerous dust collector”. In a room with carpeted flooring, as well as in a room with parquet and laminate flooring, the same amount of dust and dirt is collected. The only difference is that the pile of the carpet delays all this, and does not allow to rise. But in a room with a hard coating all this dirt and dust constantly circulates in the air, and people, respectively, inhale it all. Conclusion: in a room with any floor covering you need to periodically clean. If the apartment has rooms with a carpet, then you definitely need a powerful vacuum cleaner. Wet cleaning can also be applied to synthetic coatings.
The disadvantages of carpet
This coating is unacceptable for people prone to allergies (a vacuum cleaner can not always cope with tick larvae that can live in a natural carpet made of wool). Cheap synthetic carpet is hazardous to health (the main symptom is the pungent smell of the coating).
Some types of coating (again natural) are sensitive to high humidity and may even become stained with wet cleaning; some types of stains cannot be completely removed from the carpet. With constant direct sunlight, the carpet fades over time.
