Floor question (Part 3)
Carpet warp - is a rolled carpet covering. Natural carpet warp is made of wool. The basis represents a grid from natural jute. This material possesses high warm- and sound-proof properties. However, the wool and jute easily absorb and keep water that often leads to damage of covering. Natural carpet warp is also easily trampled down and stores dents for a long time.
Polyamide (nylon), polypropylene, polyacryle and polyester are used for the manufacturing of artificial carpet warp. Coverings from nylon are soft, they well hold pile, they are easily cleaned, do not fade and they do not have dents from furniture. Other synthetic materials concede to nylon on their qualities. The way of manufacture both of natural and artificial carpet warps can be subdivided into three types: woven, taffetine and needled. Woven carpet warp is made by way at which fibers are bound with a basis. It is the strongest and most expensive variant. At taffetine way a string needle is fixed by means of glue. In such a way it is possible to create various kinds of a carpet covering - loop back (upwards eyelets), nap (upwards fibers) and their combinations. For manufacture of loop back carpet warp string should be painted in advance, that allows creating equal colors of a covering. Single-level (eyelets of identical length) loop back carpet warp can be easily cleaned. Multilevel ones have loops of different height that creates volumetric figure of surface. Such carpet warps look effectively, however it is much more difficult to clean them. Depending on length of loops and qualities of a string taffetine loop back carpet warp can be subdivided into some kinds. Loop back scroll carpets are made of yarn of several colors that allows creating complex figure and sculptural effect. Velour carpet has short cutting pile. It is very soft silky material; however on monophonic velour traces of steps and dirt are well appreciable. Frieze carpets are made of strongly twirled yarn. Due to the structure of carpets???????? pile a frieze allows to hide various pollutions. Needled way means “driving in” of nap bunches into the basis. This covering is almost smooth and it is reminding felt. Such carpet warp differs from waved or taffetine ones by higher wear resistance and smaller deformation susceptibility.
When you choose a floor covering, you should consider the following moments: it should be wear proof, moisture proof, it should resist to pressure and impacts and to possess good sound-proof properties.
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