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Carpet 101: From Design to Fiber

 

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Carpet adds a sense of luxury and warmth to a room. With all of the styles, colors, and patterns available, you are sure to find the perfect one to compliment the design of your room.

Our extensive selection includes carpets from only the best manufacturers such as Shaw, Mohawk, Relax it's Lees, Nourison, & Stanton and styles like loops, velvets, cut-n-loops, & friezes.

How to Buy Carpet
Styles
Fibers & Construction
Stain Protection
Care & Cleaning
Select-A-Floor: Lifestyles
Warranty Levels
Featured Carpet Lines

Carpet Styles
The style of a carpet affects its look, feel, & performance and can be divided into three basic categories: loop, cut pile, & cut-n-loop.

Loop Carpet

All carpet starts out as a loop, with most styles the tips are sheared off but with this style the loops remain uncut. It is also called a 'Berber carpet.' The term 'Berber' came from the Berber Indians who made highly popular blankets with flecks of color. The reason it is now often applied to loop carpet is because of the common use of flecks in its design to help hide soiling.

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Cut Pile Carpet

This style is, by far, the most popular of the three basic carpet styles. There are also many types of cut pile carpets including Plushes, Velvets, Textured Saxonies, California Saxonies, & Friezes. This is the most popular style because of the high level of comfort plus, with technology improvements, the high durability and stain protection.

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Cut-n-Loop Carpet

This is where loops are made at different heights and the higher tips are sheared off creating a tone-on-tone pattern. Popular patterns include floral, basket weave, & diamond. However there are many others such as modern stylized waves & stripes. If you want a carpet to add a little extra dimension to your home but are worried about overwhelming the eye, this is an excellent option.

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Carpet Fibers and Construction

Each carpet fiber has its own characteristics that affect the overall performance, feel, & appearance of a carpet. The most common are wool, nylon, SmartStrand, polyester, & olefin.

Wool: The Muse

Wool is what all synthetic carpet fibers strive to become. It is naturally stain resistant, bug resistant, flame retardant, water resistant, & easy to clean. It is naturally resilient because of its natural crimp. And a good wool rug or carpet can outlast not only you but your children and probably your grandchildren as well. It is highly sustainable and has a low carbon footprint (especially the revered New Zealand Wool, the industry standard for excellence).

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Nylon Fiber

The main characteristics of nylon are excellent resilience & durability. It is also easier to clean and will accept stain protection treatments easily. A few examples of nylon carpets are Tigressa SoftStyle, Wear Dated, & Stainmaster. New technology, sometimes referred to as the Soft Revolution, has also enabled the industry to offer a soft nylon that has a silky soft feel & some of the best durability & clean-ability available.

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SmartStrand Fiber

Recently Mohawk Industries invented a new carpet fiber using DuPont's Sorona (a renewably sourced polymer) called Triexta that they now use in their SmartStrand carpets. It has stain protection engineered into the fiber during the manufacturing process so it does not need any stain treatments & repels stains. It is also a very durable fiber.

Polyester Fiber

Polyester resists fading & is able to hold brighter colors than some of the other synthetics. It is also more inherently stain resistant than other fibers that are untreated. With improvements in the manufacturing of polyester fiber that stemmed from the improvements a part of the 'Soft Revolution,' polyester has much greater durability than before.

Olefin (Polypropylene) Fiber

This is often used in indoor/outdoor commercial carpet due to its resistance to water & stains. With olefin, the fibers are actually dyed with color before they are formed so the color goes all the way through each fiber.

Carpet Construction

This defines how the fibers are made into a carpet. There are three basic construction types: woven, tufted, & axminster.

A woven carpet is created by interweaving yarns on a loom, creating a tightly joined carpet.
Tufted carpet is created when needles force tufts of fibers into a pre-woven fabric backing.
About 95% of carpets today are tufted.
A improvement in the manufacturing of tufted carpet uses 'continuous filament' instead of 'staple' which drastically decreases shedding.
Axminster is a type of woven carpet where the fibers are woven directly into the backing creating an extremely durable carpet.

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Stain Protection
The ability of any particular carpet to resist stains begins with its construction and fiber type. Then manufacturers often decide to add their own stain resistance treatment at various times throughout the construction. Some spray it on afterwards, some include it with the color dye, & still others completely immersed the fully formed fiber in the protection. Because of the variety of types of protection & methods of incorporating the protection in the carpet, be sure to consult with your sales associate to help choose which is best for your lifestyle.

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All of our Titanium carpets have Ultra25 ScotchGuard stain treatment. This repels stains & liquids making the carpet harder to stain & easier to clean. Because of this, our Titanium carpets come with a 25 year no exclusions stain warranty.

All of our Gold & Platinum carpets come with the EverGuard stain treatment & warranty that makes them stain proof.

See the section on the warranty levels for more information.

As with any floor, removal of stains and regular maintenance is imperative.


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Select a Floor: Lifestyles

We designed our Select a Floor system to help simplify browsing through the large array of carpets available. This way you can simply browse through & easily discover the best carpet for you.

Step 1: choose the lifestyle that best fits the area - The classic pod is full of traditional solid color carpets while the Casual pod focuses on the more relaxed feel of Friezes & California Saxonies. Then you have the Berber pod full of loops for areas with high traffic and the Trendsetter pod for those who are looking for a carpet that has unique colors or patterns.

Step 2: choose the warranty level that best fits your needs.

Step 3: play with your color swatches & consult with your sales associate to further narrow down the possibilities and discover your perfect carpet.

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Warranties

With the buying power of over 1,500 stores worldwide, Carpet One is able to demand a certain level of assurance & quality from the manufacturers. Why does this matter to you? Simple, peace of mind.


120 Day Beautiful Guarantee
25 Year Wear Warranty
25 Year No Exclusions Stain Warranty
15 Year Texture Retention Warranty
Life of the Floor Installation Warranty

90 Day Beautiful Guarantee
20 Year Wear Warranty
10 Year No Exclusions Stain Warranty
10 Year Texture Retention Warranty
Life of the Floor Installation Warranty

60 Day Beautiful Guarantee
15 Year Wear Warranty
7 Year No Exclusions Stain Warranty
5 Year Texture Retention Warranty
Life of the Floor Installation Warranty

30 Day Customer Satisfaction Warranty (materials replacement)
10 Year Wear Warranty
5 Year Stain Resistance Warranty
Life of the Floor Installation Warranty


15 Day Customer Satisfaction Warranty (materials replacement)
5 Year Wear Warranty
Life of the Floor Installation Warranty

Manufacturing improvements have lead the way to the 'Soft Revolution.' This has enabled the creation of stronger, softer, stain proof, & easier to clean carpets. This is why we are able to offer the enhanced versions of the Platinum & Gold level warranties on our Tigressá Soft Style & Soft Bigelow with SmartStrand & WearDated carpet lines that you can see below.


Platinum Warranties on Tigressa SoftStyle & Soft Bigelow carpets

90 Day Beautiful Guarantee
20 Year Wear Warranty
20 Year Stain Resistance Warranty*
20 Year Soiling Warranty
20 Year Texture Retention Warranty

Life of the Floor Installation Guarantee


Gold Warranties on Tigressa SoftStyle & Soft Bigelow carpets

60 Day Beautiful Guarantee
15 Year Wear Warranty
15 Year Stain Resistance Warranty*
10 Year Soiling Warranty
15 Year Texture Retention Warranty

Life of the Floor Installation Guarantee

Note the improved stain & texture retention warranties plus the addition of a soiling warranty. The difference between the soiling warranties & the stain warranties is that with our EverGuard Stain Protection these carpets are Stain Proof against any 'oops' such as food, drinks (even red wine), pet stains, & ink. Our Soiling Warranties cover standard soiling such as the dirt you track in on your shoes. With these new carpets, if you cannot clean it up you are covered.

 

 

 

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  Mercer Carpet provides professional installation of carpet and wall to wall carpeting and flooring throughout Maryland Carroll County (Sykesville, Eldersburg, Westminster), Howard County (Ellicott City, Columbia, Clarksville), Baltimore County (Randallstown, Reisterstown, Owings Mills, Pikesville, Catonsville), Frederick County MD and York and Adams County in Southeern Pennsylvania, PA.
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