Choosing The Right Carpet

Carpet is a flooring choice that can say a lot about a person. Your carpet style should be matched to the way you live. Something that is unique, personal, and natural to you. Colorado Carpet & Flooring is proud to be able to help our clients make an educated decision on their carpet choice. We know that a combination of aesthetics, performance, and price all play a role in the carpet decision.

Carpeting for Denver and Colorado Springs

Carpet is the most popular floor covering when it comes to the Denver and Colorado Springs area. There are many different styles and materials to choose from. Colorado Carpet & Flooring is proud to be able to offer a plethora of carpet choices to the people looking to carpet Denver or carpet Colorado Springs.

We carry many of the major manufacturers like: Beaulieu, Shaw, Mohawk, Stainmaster, Bliss, Smartstrand, Godfrey Hirst, and Hollytex.

Carpet Buying Tips

There is no carpet fiber stronger than nylon
StainMaster carpet is not a manufacturer of carpet but rather a type of nylon
You will typically pay a higher price for StainMaster because of their name recognition
PET Polyester is a fiber that has natural and permanent stain resistance
The best quality of wool carpet is from New Zealand
PTT or SmartStrand is even stronger than PET Polyester
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

Carpet Fibers

There is much to know about carpet fibers. Carpet fibers are an important choice and something that you're going to live with so you might as well be educated on your fiber choice. Fibers used in the carpet world of today are nylon carpet, polyester carpet, olefin carpet or polypropylene carpet, wool carpet, acrylic carpet, cotton carpet, and rayon carpet.

Wool Carpet

Wool carpet has excellent durability, can be dyed easily and is fairly abundant. When blended with synthetic fibers such as nylon the durability of wool is increased. Blended wool yarns are extensively used in production of modern carpet. Wool carpet is relatively expensive.

Nylon Carpet

This is the most popular synthetic fiber used in carpet production. Nylon can be dyed topically or dyed in a molten state (solution dying). Nylon can be printed easily and has excellent wear characteristics. In carpets Nylon tends to stain easily because it possesses dye sites on the fiber. These dye sites need to be filled in order to give Nylon any type of stain resistance. As nylon is petroleum-based it varies in price with the price of oil.

Polypropylene Carpet

This polymer is used to produce carpet yarns because it is cheap, although it is difficult to dye and does not wear as well as wool or nylon. Large looped Berber carpets made from this fiber are usually only suited for light domestic use and tend to mat down quickly. Berber carpets with smaller loops tend to be more resilient and retain their new appearance longer than large looped Berber styles. Commercial grade level-loop carpets have very small loops, and commercial grade cut-pile styles are well constructed. When made with polypropylene (also called Olefin) these styles wear very well, clean easily and are suitable for areas with heavy foot traffic such as offices. Commercial grade carpets can be glued directly to the floor or installed over a 1/4" thick, 8-pound density padding. Outdoor grass carpets are usually made from polypropylene.

Polyester Carpet

Polyester, also known as "PET" is used in carpet manufacturing in both spun and filament constructions. After the price of raw materials for many types of carpet rose in the early 2000s, polyester became more competitive. Polyester has good physical properties and is inherently stain-resistant because it is hydrophobic, and, unlike nylon, does not have dye sites. Color is infused in a molten state (solution dyeing). Polyester has the disadvantage that it tends to crush or mat down easily. It is typically used in mid- to low-priced carpeting.

PTT Carpet

PTT (polytrimethylene terephthalate) polymer, also called Sorona or 3GT (Dupont)or Corterra (Shell), is a variant of Polyester. Lurgi Zimmer PTT was first patented in 1941, but it was not produced until the 1990s, when Shell Chemicals developed the low-cost method of producing high-quality 1,3 propanediol (PDO), the starting raw material for PTT Corterra Polymers. PTT is similar to Polyester, but its molecules have a "kink", similar to a spring, that makes the fiber more crush resistant, resilient, and easy to clean. PTT also does not have dye sites, and is inherently stain resistant because color is infused in a molten state. Carpets made with PTT dry quickly and are resistant to mold.

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