Carpet

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Anyone love their carpet? And can tell me what it is please?

We are buying a house that will need a few rooms doing.

In my current house, the carpet has been rubbish, not hardwearing and looks awful within 2 years.

Can anyone recommend anything quite hardwaring but still lovely.

Drowning in samples!

Thank you

Ha ha I remember the drowning in samples stage well ! We’ve got a wool loop one from Brockway carpets , driftwood I think it’s called throughout all rooms upstairs and on stairs. Been down over a year and so far still looking and feeling good. Worth a look , they’ve lots of different ones.

Thank you I'll take a look! Haha I thought I would enjoy this process, little overwhelming 😅😅

Hi,
We had the same issue a good while back now. We ended up using a small company called Ollerton something or other - recommended by a friend. They ask what you're after and send out as many samples as you want. TBH not used anyone else since, though the name has changed now as don't need carpet frequently. Same people though.
www.ollertonrugsandcarpets.co.uk/index.shtml

We used Cormar and a decent underlay. Still looks brand new a year later.

Can't remember any names/brands- my parents got their living room and upstairs done about 8 years ago. The living room is a posh real-wool carpet and upstairs is recycled plastic (but looks just like normal carpet). The living room carpet shows any mark much more easily (the colour is much smoother, the upstairs a bit more speckled but not much really), and moths have attacked the wool one on the edges in several areas that are really obvious. By the time we've noticed the damage has been done. The cheaper plastic has held up much better and really looked pretty much the same, just slightly more flecked. So - avoid wool!

Underlay visible under stair runner?

They’re halfway through fitting this stair runner and it looks dreadful. The underlay is completely visible. Is this expected for a stair runner? Currently feeling like the carpet company have just taken me for a mug and given shite advice about the underlay? It’s not cheap carpet either. Or AIBU and this is what I should have expected? :(

@Alicorn0 oh no… as it’s not finished yet is it possible the underlay might be trimmed back at the end?

They’re coming back in the morning to finish (only done half the stairs) so I hope so?

@Alicorn0 I don’t know anything about the process but fingers crossed for you!

Buy a mix of 80% wool 20% synthetic so you it's hardwearing but enough synthetic to avoid moths. Also buy the best underlay you can afford. Our stairs carpet is down 8 years and still perfect. It had a stain/ insect repellant treatment when bought it so hasn't shown any dirt. It's a warm coffee colour. Dark enough not to show marks but still light enough to reflect light and make the space feel less small.

Oh I can relate to drowning in samples! I just need hall stairs and landing and could not for the life of me decide what to get. The walls are a pale mushroomy colour and the floors light oak, white paintwork. VERY neutral....

Then one day I just decided I am going to look for a plain Teal colour. I managed to find would you believe, a placemat in just the colour I wanted and I brought it to the carpet shop. Kind man found just the colour. Woo hoo. It is mid range quality he said, and since I live alone with little traffic, I chose it, but got the luxury underlay that was the same price per sq. m as the carpet! But I had decided on the colour and that was that.

Getting fitted next week, total cost was E700. Yes I couldn't believe it either, but the carpet man got me the end of a roll, he came out and measured up and the end was more than enough, so a huge discount. I was so lucky. So wish me luck, I hope it looks as good on the stairs as it did in the shop! All I know is that it is stain resistant, feels soft and springy, and it will do me fine I hope.