A British wool carpet makes a practical and beautiful flooring choice for your home.
Luxurious and soft underfoot, it has the potential to create more impact than almost any other element of decor, but it can also be used as a sumptuous yet subtle backdrop, adding the perfect finishing touch to any room.
Here are five great reasons to choose British wool carpets:
Carpets made from British wool are particularly good for areas of heavy traffic because of its ability to maintain its appearance with minimum care and upkeep.
Appearance retention is a critical requirement of any carpet and it is an area where British wool excels over other wools and particularly in relation to synthetic fibre carpets.
British wool’s natural crimp, robustness and elasticity means it can offer superior ‘bounce-back’. As such, pile compression, tracking marks and shading are significantly reduced.
This is also why wool carpets are able to maintain such a good appearance over many years, even decades.
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Wool is naturally resistant to mould, mildew and dust mites. It quickly absorbs and releases moisture, and thus doesn’t allow damp conditions for bacteria and fungus to thrive, meaning wool is a great choice for anyone suffering from allergies or breathing difficulties.
Due to its overlapping micro-structure, like roof shingles, British wool can help repel dirt, dust and even spilled liquids.
The wool’s scales effectively shield the inner fibre and gives you a better chance of effective spot removal of coloured stains like coffee and red wine.
Wool is naturally fire resistant and has an extremely slow ignition rate due to its high moisture and nitrogen content. Therefore, British wool carpets are an incredibly safe material to use for carpeting in the home or in a commercial setting.
Should a fire break out, the wool will be very slow to burn and will self-extinguish to form a char rather than spreading or fuelling the fire.
Wool not only naturally absorbs humidity and moisture within the home but also common airborne pollutants such as formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (known as VOCs).
Wool rapidly neutralises these contaminants unlike synthetic carpet fibres and wool does not re-emit them, even when heated. A wool carpet will continue purifying the air for up to 30 years.
