Using Rugs to Warm Up Your Room

If your laminate flooring is starting to feel cold as the winter months are approaching covering it with a rug is a much cheaper option than turning up the thermostat. Placing rugs on laminate flooring will enhance the beauty of your floor as well as providing a good source of insulation.

Area rugs are usually large rugs that are designed to cover large areas of floor space. Using an area rug on laminate flooring will enhance your flooring’s great features, allowing you to still have the warmth of carpet while still maintaining the modern look of laminate flooring.

When choosing which style rug to go for, there are many factors you need to take into consideration. Rugs can be used to make a decorative statement or can simply be bought for purpose and suitability. Choosing a solid colour such as a brown rug can make a neutral background in a room with a wallpapered feature wall, whereas a patterned rug can add a bold and bright statement to your room to create that focal point.

With a wide range of styles and colours available at Carpetright, you’ll be sure to find one to suit your personal taste and requirements. Our traditional rugs range includes The Paris Collection and heritage Persian designs available in shades of red, brown and creams. Our modern rugs come in a range of different styles whether you opt for a floral rug or striped rug, there is sure to be a colour to match your rooms décor.

Wool rugs are a great winter warmer, and make any room look great. When stepping on to a luxurious wool rug rather than a cold laminate floor, it instantly feels nicer and warmer for you and your guests.

Securing a Rug on Laminate Flooring

We recommend that when placing a rug on laminate flooring that you use rug grips to ensure that your rug stays firmly in place. At Carpetright our rug grips are suitable for use on all types of flooring including carpets and laminate.

“PERGO XP quite simply takes residential laminate flooring to a new level,” said David Hartman, vice president of sales for Pergo. “Coupling unsurpassed durability with advanced surface protection, PERGO XP is designed to stand up to even the most active homes while maintaining its extreme beauty.”

Extreme Performance

Available exclusively at The Home Depot, PERGO XP combines two exclusive PERGO technologies for the ultimate in superior surface protection. PermaMax™ Surface Performance technology provides improved clarity, as well as double the wear resistance and double the durability of ordinary residential laminate floors*, while ScratchGuard Advancedprotection boasts over 30 percent greater scratch protection.

Extreme Beauty

There’s 25 ultra-realistic PERGO XP décors to complement any room of the home – from multi-hued slates to whitewashed pines and rustic oaks to rich cherries – even exotic Hawaiian Koa.

Extreme Confidence

PERGO XP’s 10 mm thick product build-up features a premium, high-density core for greater stability and attached underlayment for easier and faster installation and realistic sound underfoot. In addition, PERGO XP features PERGO Perfectfold™ joint technology – making it an ideal choice for do-it-yourselfers looking for easy installation.

PERGO XP also offers the protection of a limited lifetime residential warranty against wear, fading and stains – meaning that with proper installation and simple maintenance, PERGO XP will stay just as beautiful as the day it was installed.

In fact, PERGO XP provides such superior durability that it’s also backed by a five-year light commercial warranty, making it ideal for retail shops, boutiques, small restaurants and businesses, child care centers and more.

“Laminate always has been an ideal choice for homeowners seeking the best in both performance and realistic good looks,” explains Hartman. “PERGO Extreme Performance represents a new generation of laminate that takes beauty and durability to a whole new level and delivers the ultimate floor for today’s high traffic homes.”

Norm has been making carpets cleaner for three years, joining a company that’s been around for over 15 years. There are many different kinds of carpet cleaning processes, with the most common being steam cleaning, but when he did his research, Norm decided on a method that uses a bare minimum of chemicals and water and gets out a maximum of stains and dirt.

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That’s the news from scientists who now say that in addition to harboring dust mites and other microcontaminants, a typical home’s floors and rugs have more bacteria on them than the kitchen counter and even the toilet seat.

The bacteria, along with a number of germs and viruses, is often tracked in from the outside on people’s feet and on pets and generally can’t be sucked up by conventional vacuums. Flu, colds and other ailments have been linked to viruses sometimes found in the home, and-equally concerning-the National Center for Health Statistics warns that dust mites are one of the leading causes of indoor allergies, in particular asthma.

HINTS FOR HOMEOWNERS.

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Listen up homeowners! Before you start griping about making improvements on your home, think of the money you could be saving! Cleaning and making repairs ultimately saves homeowners money, according to Angie’s List. And right now is the perfect time to make improvements and doing a bit of spring cleaning (before temperatures starting creeping up well above 100 degrees!

Clean your carpet:

A dirty carpet contains soil and other debris that will wear your carpet’s fibers.

Experts recommend a professional carpet cleaning every 12 to 18 months – but this can vary depending on how many people live in your home, if you have children or pets.

Schedule an appointment with carpet cleaners now to cut down on your wait

time.

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