Why Choose Carpet for Your Home?
With its many styles, textures and types of construction, carpet is the right choice for everyone, from first-time homeowners, to retirees, to families with kids and pets. Plus, carpet will maintain its beauty and durability for many years when it is properly chosen, installed and cleaned. Carpet actually improves indoor air quality.

The Basics

Plan ahead. Consider everything that will affect your carpet selection. At the Floor Coverings of the Galleria we begin by asking a few starter questions. Pick a carpet for the way you live. Do you have children, frequent visitors or pets? Choose a carpet with a purpose. What room will it be used for? Will you be eating in this room? Look at carpets with flair or designs. Is there a decorating theme you are following? What about the color scheme? Are we going to coordinate this with your furniture? If you have sample fabric swatches this may be helpful to us. Shopping within your budget. Do you have a set budget in mind to be spent on carpeting only? Our carpet pricing includes the carpet, padding and installation listed as one price.

The Facts

Now that you have some idea of what you are shopping for, its time to learn more about the quality of your carpet selection. Carpet pile is the yarn on the face of the carpet. Quality carpet is often known by a firm, dense pile. The most durable carpets are those that have tightly twisted yarns packed into the carpet. Loop carpets resist crushing and matting, often used for commercial use but Berber styles are well suited to any room. The loops of a cut pile carpet are cut to show the yarn ends. There are many styles to suit any room. We have Velvet Plush, a rich luxurious surface or a Saxony, great for less formal rooms or a Textured Saxony that is tough enough for any room and the sculpted design doesn’t show dirt or footprints easily. The cut and loop carpets combine carpet piles to form a sculpted pattern and are often multi-colored making them great for any room in the house or for less formal settings.

CARPET CONSTRUCTION
 
Textured Plush:  Most decoratively versatile cut-pile carpet. Preferred style for busy households, also hides footprints and vacuum marks.
 
Saxony:  Refined cut-pile surface, luxuriously smooth, soft finish, ideal for living and dining rooms.  Shows subtle highlights and accents.
 
 
Berber loop-Pile:  A wool-like look and rugged loop surface. Tight lop texture helps hide footprints and vacuum marks. Ideal choice for contemporary to country to cottage furnishings.
 
Berber Cut-Pile:  A new berber look with all the wonderful color and interest of traditional loop Berbers. The great plush "feel" of thick, cut pile carpet.  Beautifully crafted and colored yarns add personality to any room.  Very versatile decoratively, ideal for casual rooms, kids' rooms.
 
Cut/Loop:   Carved definition with cut-and-loop pile.  Accent colors spice up floor surfaces. Multicolor effects hide soil and stains.  Looks great between vacuuming. 
 

Commercial Loop:  Durable long-wearing surface pile engineered for high traffic areas. Textured surfaces provide subtle highlights. 
  
 
FIBERS

Knowing your carpet fibers will help you choose the right one for your needs.

Nylon: is the most strongest and durable widely used fiber. It’s soft and holds its texture well, resists most stains and is easy to clean. Offered as BCF or staple.  Used in residential and commercial applications. Produced  as a solution-dyed fiber or white yarn to-be-dyed.  Accounts for 65% of all face fibers in carpet.   The characteristics are durable, resilient, abrasion-resistant, versatile in color possibilities.  Must be treated for dirt and soil resistant.  Nylon is treated at the time of manufacturing.  Depending on the company many different soil protections are used.  Examples are DuPont, Scotchguard, and Anso.

Acrylic: offers the look and feel of wool and is available in many Berber selections, it wears well and is naturally stain resistant.

Nylon/Acrylic Combination: Combining both features provides strength, softness, and natural beauty. These carpets are known for their durability and excellent stain resistance.

Wool: Warm and durable, but can be easily damaged if not cared for properly. Available in fewer colors and don’t take bright dyes as well makes this selection somewhat limited. Natural fiber.  Offered as staple yarn.  The characteristics are a natural fiber with moderate soil and stain resistance.  Durable, luxurious "hand", reduced visible soil due to fine, light-scattering characteristics.  The most expensive of the fibers.

Polyester: Reasonably durable. Made from terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol.  Offered primarily as a staple product, although some BCF is being produced.  Used in residential and commercial applications.  PET Polyester is made from recycled plastic bottles.  The characteristics are resistant to water stains, color clarity and colorfastness.

Polypropylene (OLEFIN) : These carpets are moisture resistant although limited in selection of colors. Fiber-forming substance of any long chain synthetic polymer composed of at least 85% by weight, of ethylene, propylene, or other olefin units.  Offered primarily as BCF with some staple product available.  Primarily sold as solution-dyed or pre dyed fiber.  Can be engineered for outdoor carpet applications.  The characteristics are resists fading, inherently stain resistance, limited color selection, generates low levels of static electricity, chemical, moisture and stain resistant.

So what does this all mean?When you are shopping don’t overlook the value of good carpet padding. A good pad will increase the life of your carpet. It softens your walk, noise control, insulates a floor and prevents slipping of the carpet. We can help you to choose the right padding with your carpet selection.