Carpets

Different types of finish • suitable wear layers

Textile floors are manufactured in many different ways, for example as tufted and woven floors or as needle punched floors. Polyamides (the most durable fiber), polyacrylics (the most wool-like fiber), sisal fibers and wool fibers, sometimes mixed with other fibers, are often used as the wear layer or as carpet pile yarns.

Carpet backing • complex subfloor preparation

Compact foam backings are now used less and less and are often replaced by textile secondary backings in tufted carpets.

As a rule, carpets must be fully glued to the subfloor, which requires relatively complex subfloor preparation, e.g. by sanding, priming and filling.

(Photos 1,2,4: Rainer Sturm/pixelio)