Berber carpet with cats

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SadPander · 14/02/2014 14:51

Has anyone got a berber carpet and cats? Is it a disaster? Carpet right man just came to measure my rooms and strongly advised against it (we are carpeting lounge, stairs, landing and bedrooms - family room and kitchen where the cats spend most of their time will be wood). I've seen a chunky berber I really like and can't seem to find any nice looking twist carpets. Even the really expensive one's seem to look cheap!

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MummytoMog · 14/02/2014 15:41

In my experience almost any carpet and cats is a disaster. Our twist fared better than the berber though, which looked wrecked very quickly. Twist just got a bit scruffy on the stairs.

hiccupgirl · 14/02/2014 19:03

The man at the carpet shop laughed when I suggested a Berber for our lounge/diner as he could see we had a small child and then I mentioned the 3 cats.

We now have a fully indestructible fully artificial bleachable carpet instead and it is great. Though the cat has already stratched a corner when DH shut her in by mistake.

snowgirl1 · 15/02/2014 20:08

We had a looped carpet in our last house. When the cats clawed it, it developed 'runs'. In our current house, we purposefully chose twist because of that. Are berber carpets random loops, ie. not loops in neat rows? If they are them might not run like ours did, but will probably still 'pull' IYKWIM

jasmine31 · 15/02/2014 20:14

Yes we have a berber carpet (stairs, landing, 2 bedrooms) and 2 cats. Haven't had a problem - but maybe they're not particularly scratchy cats. I think possibly they scratched more when they didn't have access to outside. But now they go out they don't scratch much. They are middle aged too, so possibly kittens/young cats would scratch more...

newpup · 15/02/2014 20:43

We have a new Berber carpet on our stairs, landings and study. The carpet fitter warned us not to let the cat on it, he said a cat could destroy it easily!! Luckily, our cat is ancient and has shown no interest in it at all although she is shut in another room when we go out and at night. I could see how it would easily catch on her claws.

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SadPander · 18/02/2014 12:57

Oh dear :( not sure why but I really can't seem to find any twists that I like! Thanks for the replies.

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gotolder · 18/02/2014 16:27

We had 100% wool berber carpet in our ground floor flat living room for 12 years WITH cats/kittens who had permanent ingress direct from garden through balcony window.
It looked as good when we moved as when we had it fitted. It was quite a small loop, cream/flecked and never seemed to look dirty(though I'm not fond of housework).
We shampooed it when we put the flat on the market and, in fact, it was filthy.
We have an 'ordinary' carpet in our new place which I cannot wait to replace with another berber carpet.

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