All types of buildings need to have a flooring solution. This can be from concrete blocks in a parking lot, to marble floors from Italy, hardwood, laminate, ceramic tiles, vinyl and a long time favorite, carpets and the newer carpet tiles.
Each room in a house has a different set of requirements, depending on the use. The bedroom and the kitchen have completely different usages and this should be reflected on the type of flooring you decide to place there. The decision of using a carpet in any particular room should follow this initial definition.
Carpet, whether for home or commercial use, has some specific differences compared to the other types of hard floors:
1. Carpet tiles and the traditional wall to wall carpet are soft to the touch (feet or otherwise). A hard floor, as the word implies, is not and this does make a difference in the home. For all those thousands of people who enjoy walking barefoot the difference is patently obvious, but at the same time for everybody, the tread provides less impact to the body.
2. One of the benefits of carpet is that you can find an enormous variety of colors, textures and designs – much more so than with other types of floors.
3. They provide temperature and sound insulation, both of which are looked for at home or in the work place.
There is a large selection of types of carpet you can use in your home, but you also have carpet tiles and carpet rolls. One of the obvious differences between these two is that in tiles you will need less than for a traditional carpet. And the reason is that there is much less excess carpet needed to cover the area. In short, less waste.
Capet tile installation is much easier and this makes it perfect for a DIY job. The squares are placed side by side and in most residential carpet tiles they have self adhesive as part of the tile. This also means you can combine different tiles allowing you to design your own patterns.
A further advantage is storage, transport and maneuverability. In all cases carpet squares represent less costs. Moving a box is much, much easier than moving a long roll, and it is not only the weight but also the size of the roll makes it cumbersome.
Carpets will wear out eventually or become stained. Typically the areas that suffer from this the most are those with higher traffic. When having to replace wall to wall carpet, you have to remove the full sheet of carpet. Carpet tiles are much more practical where you only have to remove the affected tile and replace it. This also means it is always a good idea to have a few square tiles in stock.
For residential usage carpet tiles are becoming increasingly popular as they have tremendous design possibilities, they are easy to move about and store and in case of repair the simple tile replacement benefits make for longer lasting enjoyment.
Carpet, being in essence a soft floor, has certain characteristics:
1. The softness of carpet, bet it carpet tiles or carpet roll, is an inherent characteristic of the carpet. In hard floors the opposite is true. This does not mean one is better than the other, but it does define the areas where it is advisable to use one or the other.
2. Although now days all types of flooring have a good selection of colors and styles, carpet that is made from yarn, has a much wider variety of colors, designs and textures that make it very flexible from an interior decorating point of view.
3. The fact that carpets insulate the floor they are covering means that heat or cold extremes are tempered by it. Additionally it not only cushions the tread, but also absorbs noise while providing smooth comfort.
Regarding carpet tiles and carpet rolls there are a series of differences that are mostly in favor of the tiles. The first one relates to the amount of carpet you need. Carpet rolls come at a width of 12 feet (depending on the machine it is made, this can vary) while carpet tiles are made in squares of 18 inches, 24 inches or 36 inches. One of the results of these is that you need less excess carpet tiles than carpet rolls. A rule of thumb is that the area you will be carpeting needs around 2% extra carpet tiles and something between 8% and 12% carpet roll and this translates into how the amount to be invested.
Capet tile installation is much easier and this makes it perfect for a DIY job. The squares are placed side by side and in most residential carpet tiles they have self adhesive as part of the tile. This also means you can combine different tiles allowing you to design your own patterns.
These tiles have also another advantage and this is storage, transport and carrying. carpet rolls are heavy and cumbersome to move about. Carpet tiles come in boxes and this means storage ease as well as less freight costs and being able to move them from one place to another.
carpet tiles a easy to install and this also means that if an area of your carpet is damaged you can easily replace the tiles with new ones – an important tip is to have a few spare tiles for potential replacements.
For residential usage carpet tiles are becoming increasingly popular as they have tremendous design possibilities, they are easy to move about and store and in case of repair the simple tile replacement benefits make for longer lasting enjoyment.