Good quality man made carpets?

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SilverRingahBells · 16/12/2021 07:54

We need to recarpet the house in the new year and our moth problem is so bad that we're reluctantly having to rule out wool, but I want to go for something soft and hard wearing for the bedrooms. We've found a couple we like at Tapi but they're really expensive. None of the John Lewis ones really hit the spot.

Do we just wait until Tapi get around to discounting the ones we like? or can anyone recommend a good make we can look for in an independent carpet store?

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Notcontent · 17/12/2021 22:05

Would it not make more sense to deal with the moth problem? Otherwise it’s still going to be an issue for other soft furnishings and clothes…

steppemum · 17/12/2021 22:11

we moved into a house with a moth problem. The old carpet was wool.

When we replaced it the man at the carpet place was clear - unless you are 100% sure you have 100% eradicated the moths, don't get wool.

We got a good quality man made. I was really reluctanct as I am sceptical about man made, but it is lovely. Thick warm, can't tell it is manmade, has worn really well, and you can scrub it with bleach! (and I have needed to a couple of times). After 8 years I thought it was looking a little the worse for wear, so I borrowed my mum's vax and it has come up clean like new. It is a cream carpet.

We got it from carpet right, and we paid more for a really good underlay

we are now looking to replace more rooms with similar

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SilverRingahBells · 17/12/2021 22:40

I have no faith at all that we'd be able to deal with the moths. We'd need to do the whole house at once and then live with bare floorboards for a bit to kill them off, whereas I want to do the bedrooms and landing separately. Switching to manmade carpets would reduce the moth numbers so much that we'd be able to eradicate them on clothes without constantly getting reinfected.

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steppemum · 18/12/2021 09:51

we were the same.
We are moth free, but it took a while, and the only guaranteed way is to strip out all carpets and fumigate. That wasn't an option.

By the way, moth tip, hoover lots. and especially move furniture and hoover underneath it. This does really help and it is the unhoovered corners where they continue to breed. Pain if you have heavy furniture.

but as I said our manmade carpets are lovely

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SilverRingahBells · 18/12/2021 09:57

Yes our furniture layout makes "move everything and vacuum every single corner weekly" wildly impractical. Moving the books out of all the bookcases to shift them takes hours and stripping back to bare floorboards and fumigating is also not a goer.

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CantHaveTooMuchChocolate · 19/12/2021 02:57

@steppemum we’ve exactly this problem too, can you tell us what the brand/model of carpet was if you can remember please? Was it a carpet right own brand? We’ve been looking but are overwhelmed by the huge range of different brands, and find it hard to tell from looking at the small samples in shops what would be good!

ILoveAllRainbowsx · 19/12/2021 08:37

We got this and are happy with it

www.lano.com/en/collection/heathertwist-elite

steppemum · 19/12/2021 13:56

sorry, I can't remember.
It was definitely in carpet right though.

We had a long talk with the seller, explained that we were looking for one that looked as good as wool, and he showed us several at different price points. It wasn't a cheap one, but was really reasonable price.

key thing for me was that it didn't look synthetic AT ALL. and it doesn't

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