Carpet- wool vs polyester vs nylon

[BrondesburyBelle]

Please help me with the pros and cons. We have a mixture of ancient wool and synthetic carpets. The wool one still looks good despite being an unfashionable colour with areas of various moth damage and the synthetic ones look like shit. What should I choose? Unlikely to hoover under furniture enough to properly prevent moths and I wear a lot of wool so don’t want to encourage moths. Otherwise I think I prefer wool!

Definitely wool or at least 80/20 mix. As you say wool wears better.

Wool or 80/30. I agree. I’ve never had any issue with moths and carpets.

Wool wears out quicker and I've had various carpet beetle infestations, leading to bald patches, but I'd still go for wool or at least a wool mix.

Ooh that shows how little I know about this. I’m 46 and have never bought a carpet before. I don’t know you could get a mix! Is that supposed to be a best of both worlds idea? What’s the advantage of a mix over pure wool? Is it just cost?

I'll never buy wool carpets again. We had such difficulty with a moth infestation, and never succeeded in getting rid of them. We've just re-carpeted our hall/stairs/loft bedroom with a polyester carpet and, honestly, you'd never know it wasn't wool.

Also not had beetles! I found evidence of moths under the sofa when I did a pre Christmas clean, which made me doubt whether more wool was a good idea

@BIWI any chance of a link? I don’t know what a ‘good’ synthetic carpet would be vs a crap one like the ones we have upstairs

I think it was this one

(Sorry - it was a few months ago now! It was definitely from Carpetright though)

It's not a brilliant website to get a real, true feeling as to what it looks or feels like - always a a good idea to go to the shop to see it.

We've gone for 80/20 wool mix as it wears well and you get the properties of wool.

Never had moths or carpet beetles in any house I've lived in and always had wool carpets! I'm a knitter so the thought of moths fills me with horror!

We have moths (in London, I don’t think you can escape them) and they don’t seem to have eaten our 80:20 wool mix. I really dislike synthetic carpets.

My neighbour has one and her office chair has ripped it to pieces whereas mine still looks perfect after 6 years of being rolled over by a similar office chair!

Bastard moths have now munched the wool carpets in all of our bedrooms, only 3 years old.

Wouldn’t get wool again but moths seem to be quite widespread in London.

Yeah we are in London. I seal all my woollen jumpers and coats and blankets in plastic in May every year and they don’t get in there but definitely have issues in the old wool carpet. There’s just no way I can move all the furniture every week to hoover, inevitably only the high traffic bits will get cleaned every week. @Compsearch thats good to know you are in London and yours are ok! I’ll get some samples and try and visit some showrooms. We used to have a nice cheapish Berber wool loop pile one in a London flat a few years ago that’s seemed ok until I had a home birth on it

Carpets always 100% wool or 80/20 mix if you can but we now only carpet the sitting room and our stairs.
We've got oak floor or laminate in other rooms with lots of brilliant rugs,
There are some amazingly good affordable 100% wool thick pile rugs - look at Habitat, La Redoute, Dunelm especially and Ikea, too.
A little bit of green soap and a cold water cloth removes stains prettu easily.
Sometimes I don't hoover the carpets; I just use a damp cloth and wipe them.