What is best carpet for home
How to choose the right carpet
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I'm not long ago I had hardwood floors
installed by Colombo's floors to go and
my family couldn't be happier with the
results we added wood floors to our
kitchen in our eating area our pantry
and they turned out great
but how wood is far from the only option
when you're making renovations in your
home so today we're talking about the
advantages of different kinds of
carpeting and we have Scott Earhart and
designer Shay Hawkins here to talk about
this particular type of flooring I can't
say I did carpet two years ago and
frankly I found that process to be
extremely overwhelming it certainly can
be when you walk into the showroom and
there's literally a thousand carpet
samples staring you in the face where do
I even start you know and we're
certainly there to help hopefully make
that process a bit easier you know help
qualify exactly which type of carpet is
gonna be the most appropriate for you
and your family and your lifestyle and
your priorities yeah frankly that's what
it came down to we started thinking
about how we live and the fact that we
do have young children and it's busy and
I wanted something pretty easy to
maintain yeah you know at a glance a lot
of these may look identical to each
other color aside but really there's a
lot that goes on into the the fiber that
the carpet is made up of and also the
construction of that carpet and that's
actually what we're gonna talk about
here today to try to hopefully educate a
little bit so that initial experience is
a little bit easier when you come into
the show yeah customers don't
necessarily know about that so we lend
on designers we depend on you to kind of
educate us about the difference between
these types of carpet yes so today we
have four different fibers for different
types of carpet we have 4 different
fibers so we're some take you through
all four of them and give you some
advantages and disadvantages to each of
them so hopefully the next time you buy
carpet it won't be overwhelming yeah
this will be helpful for those watching
too because we know that you know it's
always great to make those upgrades in
ER yes absolutely so the first one I
start with is wool ok wool is made out
of the is it's from a sheep so it's a
natural fiber
it's from New Zealand it's very strong
so you just want to be careful when
you're with stains you know wine would
not be a good combination on this very
difficult to clean but it's really
strong again so putting this in a
high-traffic area on stairs or in
hallway it's gonna hold up like nails
people have wool in their house it's
it's been there for years and years and
years a lot of rugs see people here all
I have a little rug and it's been passed
down from family to family it just lasts
forever but it might not be the best
option if you have three kids running
around with kool-aid that's not gonna do
well on drugs because they're good
things to consider there are you know
positives and negatives what about this
one here this one here is a polyester
okay so when you feel this that's the
number one thing that people feel they
feeling it's really plush mm-hmm people
always feel like they're getting so much
bang for their buck with polyester and
it cleans up incredibly well so the dye
sites are actually closed on polyester
so stains have a hard time sticking into
enter the fiber so it cleans up
beautifully disadvantage of polyester is
that it's a plastic based fiber so in
high-traffic areas like stairs or
hallways not always the best option
you'll start to see crushing and matting
a lot faster than you will with all
their fibers mm-hmm but there's always a
perfect place for this we sell a lot of
polyester it just really depends on what
area of the home is going in - right
okay so I'm looking at this next carpet
it actually kind of looks a little
similar to this you're also very soft
but I have a feeling there are
differences yes it needs - yes this is a
nylon which is the most popular fiber
that's sold right now especially in our
showroom majority of our showroom is
nylon it is the most resilient fiber
meaning that it's going to hold up the
best in high traffic area lease off -
yeah
there's a variety of different styles of
nylons and different types of nylons
some that are softer than others but the
biggest selling feature with nylon is
how well it holds up issues an island
some of it depends on which one you're
looking at some of them can have some
hesitation on cleaning up the best but
they all have a topical stain repellent
on top of them so it's really a good
option you have the durability but then
you it will clean up also yeah okay so
this piece of carpet actually looks a
little bit familiar to me because we did
a stain test one yeah in our studio
because you are asked the expert in
flooring you actually brought in this
piece of carpet in you threw some red
wine yes between going way carpet yes
that's the exact same sample this is try
exa which is a newer fiber out of the
four of them it is its own fiber in
itself its new a lot of people refer to
it a smart strand but the actual name of
the fiber is tri-axial you've heard
smarter strand it's the exact same thing
it's kind of you get all of the bells
and whistles all in one kind of nice you
get the resistance to matting and
crushing that an island provides but you
also get the clean ability of a
polyester so you kind of get everything
put into one it's become a very popular
fiber for all of those reasons it's
great if you have pets or kids or you
know active lifestyle cause it's gonna
perform really well so you could really
eliminate a lot of carpet by process of
elimination absolutely asking those
questions about your needs where you
plan to use it in your house and how you
live yeah absolutely yeah we always try
when people come into the showroom we
ask a lot of questions to learn more
about their project out when we can help
eliminate a certain fiber that way
you're not so overwhelmed we can kind of
say okay we want something we have kids
you want it's a clean up well you'll
have to hold up maybe try access the
best option for you then we can
eliminate 75% of the showroom in in the
showroom I'm amazed because you have so
many different really popular colors
textured carpet I know has become
extremely popular having a little bit of
a design that's kind of built in to the
area we're seeing some video here and
this one is actually of your new
showroom which you had remodeled that
just was completed last month last month
yep
yeah we're extremely excited as to how
that turned out
the designers did a wonderful job in
pulling together a lot of the most
popular styles and really showcasing a
lot of the different products we have
yeah like how you have a lot of variety
on your own floor because sometimes when
you see a sample that's only you know a
couple feet by a few feet it's hard to
imagine what its gonna look like in your
house yes this helps too because we're
seeing some great examples of flooring I
actually have that in my laundry room
you sure do it was great to say and it's
working great and so you've got lots of
great examples some of them a little
more wild and different there and so
tell us where you're located if people
have these questions what they should do
should they take in pictures of their
house what questions should they come
with you know I like to say for design
wise at having people bring in pictures
that way we can help pick style and
color but also just talking with your
family and coming to an agreement of
what your what you really want out of
the carpet a lot of times we have
spouses that you know one wants this one
wants a lines you know and so we're
trying and please both um but just
having a understanding of where this is
gonna go and how long you plan on
staying in the home
that really helps us narrow what we're
gonna narrow down well I love it - you
gave me some great samples to take to my
home so I could actually see what it
would look like considering light in a
giving room everybody has different
windows in a dybbuk superjail's
color what way is it facing and so you
were extremely helpful and I'm grateful
and I'm loving my floors oh we're so
glad to hear it thank you so much we'll
be right back after this break
