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minnie101

Help for carpet

minnie101
hace 5 años

I'm trying to choose a carpet ATM for most of upstairs but have never bought one so don't know a lot about them. I have been looking at 100% wool in a boucle.

Questions : is a boucle easy to hoover? my mum inherited one but with a much looser/larger loop and she says her Hoover doesn't get everything up and she would avoid at all costs.

Everything I read seems to point to an 80 (wool)/20 (PP/nylon) mix being the best option. What I don't understand is why though given the properties of each?

Finally for cost reasons I was looking at having a carpet cut and either whipped or adding a border to make a stair runner. I've got 3 "platforms" on my stairs so for it to work properly the carpet would need to be cut at a diagonal on the "platform" as per the photo. Has anyone had this done and if so how/when were the whipped edges/border treated and how have they since performed?


Comentarios (5)

  • nmlondon
    hace 5 años
    Hi minnie101, I can only reply to the boucle part of your question, we had this carpet fitted in 2017 when we bought our house (sorry, all my google drive photos feature our cats and since we live abroad at the moment, that’s all I have got). It is very easy to hoover, we have a normal Miele. I thought first of getting a runner with the whipped edges (I still like the runners better than fitted stair carpets but with all the quarter space and split landings, kite winders it was getting to be rather expensive...plus the original stair treads and risers are pine, which was wire brushed and then painted over and over).
    minnie101 agradeció a nmlondon
  • temple274
    hace 5 años
    No need to have diagonal joins on the quarter landings. Your fitter will cut the carpet in a sort of L-shape for those landings and once it's bound and fitted it will look perfect.
    minnie101 agradeció a temple274
  • kikiamack
    hace 5 años
    John Lewis has a buying guide on its website which explains the pros and cons of different materials. Whichever type of carpet you are looking for to go on stairs, make sure you bend the sample in half to see how densely packed the fibres are. This way you won’t be able to see the base material when the carpet is bent round the treads. We had Brintons Bell Twist (80/20) down for 15 years before we renovated and it was in brilliant condition and probably would have looked good for another 10 years. This is still sold, so you could use it as a quality comparison point.
    minnie101 agradeció a kikiamack
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    V.I.P Walls Interior Specialist
    hace 5 años
    If that’s your staircase please consider wall paneling .. it looks gorgeous .
  • minnie101
    Autor original
    hace 5 años

    Thanks kikiamac. I'd looked at the JL guide before although reading it again it does say the 80/20 is less durable than wool. I can only assume the 20% mix makes the carpet softer as it won't make it more stain resistant (?) The carpet I'd been looking at is NZ wool which I understand is softer than British anyway. Great tip on the fibres! The Brinton one seems a good price too.

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