Carpet

Flooring Innovations will work with clients to select appropriate carpets for their buildings: whether it’s a healthcare facility, five-star hotel, major apartment complex, office development or residential estate. We use reputable carpet floor covering suppliers such as Godfrey Hirst, Tascot & Chaparral to name just a few.

Domestic Carpet
Carpet can help create a quieter, more pleasing atmosphere. Many of the carpets we use are made with wool: a natural and environmentally-friendly resource that is renewable and biodegradable. These carpets act as a natural insulator, absorbing and reducing sound and adding that homely feel.

Whether your home is contemporary or classical, carpet has many advantages over other flooring options. So, when you’re choosing a suitable carpet for your home, consider the following.

Durability
Carpet that is hard wearing can withstand heavy foot traffic and retain its appearance longer.

Comfort
Carpet can provide year-round comfort and softness, increasing your enjoyment at home. It’s also pleasant for little feet and knees crawling around the room.

Texture
Loop pile gives a textured finish; cut pile offers a smooth even finish. Or you can choose a combination of both for a finish that really makes a statement. With carpet, there are no restrictions to the finish you can create.

Colour
Unlike other floor coverings that have limited scope for colour, carpet uses both natural and synthetic fibres, which means there is a potential palette of over 1,000,000 colours to choose from.

Safety
A soft Godfrey Hirst carpet not only increases comfort around the home, they can reduce the risk of injuries that arise from slipping or falling. As carpet pile also absorbs pressure, the stress level on the body is also reduced

Practicality
With proper maintenance a carpet is easy to clean and will resist dirt and stains (no matter how busy or messy life gets). Carpet also acts as a natural insulator, creating a quiet relaxing environment.

Carpet Styles Each style of carpet has particular characteristics. Determining your needs will help you to decide the best style of carpet for your home. Click the symbols below to read a full explanation of carpet styles Cut Pile Plush Cut Pile Twist Loop Pile Sisal Text'd Loop & Cut Pile Level Loop & Cut Pile High Low Loop Frieze Loop Pile A looped carpet is, as the name suggests, where the carpet pile forms a loop. The yarn is threaded through the backing then sewn back through – creating a loop of yarn. There are several types of loop pile carpets. The more common ones are level loops, sisals, textured loops and multi-level loops. Each creates a very distinct look in the home. Loop pile carpets are hard wearing, durable and do not have a tendency to show tracking (footprints) as often as other carpet types. Frieze Frieze carpets are characterised by a long-cut pile that lies in different directions, providing a deep texture and shaggy appearance. The quality of frieze carpets has improved with better yarns and more varied constructions, such as mixing thick and thin as well as long and short yarns. This carpet style is extremely durable and provides a sensual and luxurious feel. Cut Pile Plush Cut pile carpets are achieved by cutting the tops of the loops so the pile stands upright with an even smooth surface. The yarn is constructed with a slight twist, which has been chemically or heat set. This creates a carpet with a very soft, luxurious look. Plush pile carpet has a tendency to display temporary shading from footprints and vacuuming. This is regarded as a characteristic of this style, but has no detrimental effect on the performance of the carpet. Cut Pile Twist Cut pile twist carpets are constructed with a higher twisted yarn causing the pile to lay in different directions, giving a more textured appearance. Twist pile carpets are hard wearing and maintain their finish. Because they have a more textured finish, they are also less likely to show traces of shading or tracking within the pile. Hi/Lo loop Pile This style of carpet is made using loops of various heights, giving a textured finish to the surface of the carpet. Hi/Lo loop pile carpets are exceptionally durable. Textured Loop and Cut Pile Just as it sounds, this style of carpet is a combination of both cut and loop tufts. The tufts can be of different height, giving a textured and patterned appearance. Level Loop and Cut Pile This latest carpet style is a combination of level loop and cut tufts. It has a stylish finish with a soft, smooth feel. Because of its unique construction, a range of distinctive patterns can be combined with colours that appeal to individual tastes. Sisal Sisal is a loop pile carpet made with textured loops in straight rows. The height of the loops can be varied to produce different patterns and textures. This style of carpet is very popular due to its classical appearance and adaptability to almost any interior design. Fibre Types Click the list below to read a full explanation of fibre types Natural wool Versatile nylon Wool/nylon blends Fibrelon® Cost-effective polypropylene Natural Wool Wool carpets have the most luxurious feel. Their subtle beauty can increase your enjoyment of any room. Wool’s unique fibre structure makes it durable and hardwearing, so wool carpets keep their appearance longer. Wool carpets can feel cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Wool has innate stain resistance properties, allowing spills to be cleaned more easily. It is also flame retardant and acts as an insulator, helping to reduce ambient noise. Versatile Nylon Nylon is usually regarded as a highly versatile fibre type. It can be constructed into virtually any style, and the nylon/synthetic fibres are extremely resistant to stains (provided they have been properly treated). Carpets made with nylon/synthetic fibres provide long-term resilience and durability. Colour choice is greatly increased because nylon fibres accept dye more readily than other fibres, providing you with scope to choose a carpet that will suit your style and needs. Wool/Nylon Blends Blend carpets are made up of varying percentages of wool and synthetic fibres, offering the resilience and durability of nylon fibres with the natural appearance and luxurious feel of wool. Used primarily in Cut Plush Pile and Twist Pile carpet styles, the added composition of nylon fibres assist in holding the twist definition, therefore providing improved wearing ability and reduced shedding from short fibres. Statron® Solution Dyed Nylon Manufactured exclusively by Godfrey Hirst Carpets through a solution dyeing process, Statron® Solution Dyed Nylon (SDN) offers complete consistency in colour as well as improved colourfastness against light. Pigment and polymer are mixed before extrusion, giving Godfrey Hirst the potential to create a palette of over 1,000,000 colour combinations. Statron® SDN is treated with lifetime anti-static protection. It offers long-term resilience, durability and superior stain resistance. Because Statron® SDN is nonporous the fibre can resist stains and odours. Fibrelon® Fibrelon® is a new generation fibre incorporating the latest in co-polymer technology. This unique composition of new synthetic fibres has been engineered to give a wool-like appearance with the benefits of a synthetic carpet. The unique fibre construction of Fibrelon provides enhanced stain resistance by applying stain resistant properties to each individual fibre. Fibrelon’s unique technology provides advanced colour performance. Because of the ultra violet properties and colour lock techniques applied to each individual fibre, Fibrelon has long lasting colourfastness and brightness. Cost-Effective Polypropylene Manufactured using synthetic fibres, polypropylene fibres have many similar properties and benefits as nylon fibres. Polypropylene yarn has excellent colourfastness properties with the incidence of sunlight and ozone fading greatly reduced, and also contains anti-static properties. Carpets manufactured using polypropylene yarn provide value for the budget conscious consumer.