Just For Fun

I know Carpets may not be the most interesting subject to blog about but I do try and make it as interesting as possible and these 2 comments sent to me via friends on facebook made me smile.

From Gav

"To be fair cookie, I am somewhat disappointed. I had an invite to attend a monster truck rally, bloody Grave Digger was gonna be there! Instead I choose to stay in and read your blog. As I settled down in my weary underpants and kicked back... with a nice glass on Buckfast I was visibly salivating in anticipation of discovering the difference between a saxony plush and a cut loop pile carpet. I physically wretched ( on my engineered hardwood floor) when I realized that there was to be no mention of the above. Buck up the blog mate. I want some practical tips on where to start laying carpet tiles in a dog legged room."

From Rab
"If you are taking suggestions; a blog on how to remove nicotine chewing gum from an office floor tile if you had already run over it a couple of times with your chair and then tried to hide it by colouring it in with marker pen. Just off the top of my head..."

Well it cant all be Work and no play can it. I may well blog about removing chewing gum soon. And Im sure I can do one on the difference between a saxony and a cut and loop pile.

Lifestyle Floors

Lifestyle Floors have really started to do what they set out to do. Ok you could say they have maybe gone over the top with their stands, and maybe have missed the mark with some ranges put they still have many great ranges that seem to sell well. When the Lifestyle floor was launched, I for one was not giving it much hope and felt it was not going to be around long. but they have done well and to be honest the stands do look great in our shop.

Black Out Blinds

Now available in store.

16 colours to choose from.

60cm £15

90cm £20

120 cm £25

180cm £35

210cm £45

240cm £55

*all blinds come as a standard 170cm Drop.

Call 01394 283518

New venture

We have introduced curtain poles to the shop. We hope to grow this part of the business into a complete interiors section including curtains and blinds, cushions wallpaper and workroom products. Please log on to here updates on ''Eastcliff Interiors''

Vinyl Stock

NEW In stock 2 metre vinyl 

RRP £17.99

OUR PRICE

£8.99

Wooltex

Wooltex Is a new carpet that is set to hit the industry in a big way in 2012.
It looks like wool, feels like wool but is polypropylene and there for bleach cleanable.
Many customers are turned off by polypropylene because it can sometimes give a slight Shinney appearance (after all it is plastic). But Wooltex changes this and gives you a more natural wool look.
Time will tell but from what we have seen so far Wooltex looks to be a big hit for many and could prove to make a big change in the world of carpet and flooring. I
Special Roll from the first run of Wooltex now in stock £14.99 psm at Eastcliff Carpets Showroom

The Many Different Types Of Carpet

For many years, I thought carpet was just carpet. It goes on the floor; it keeps your feet warm and feels nice. That’s about it, isn’t it? Well, no, not really. You see, there are many different types of carpets (wool, nylon, polyester,…) all of which have been developed over time, some going way back to six thousand years BC. I’ll spare you the history lesson, only to say we’ve known about the benefits of laying carpets on our floors for many thousands of years.
These days, we can choose from a multitude of materials, and a whole rainbow of colours and patterns. Computers, robots and graphics designers can weave intricate patterns in minutes using CAD, and you can even have your own designed weaved into carpet if you wish. That’s technology for you.
So what are all these new fancy carpets made of? Well, a variety of materials as it happens, some more expensive and better than others, but all of them make good comfortable carpets for residential use, or for commercial carpets or contract carpets.
The most popular is probably nylon. It is fairly inexpensive, has excellent wear characteristics, and can be coloured and printed on easily. Nylon carpets are probably the most common on the market today, but a disadvantage is they tend to stain easily because they possess dye sites on the fibres. The cost of nylon tends to fluctuate with the price of oil, as it is a petroleum-based product.
Another type of carpet is polyester, or otherwise known as polyethylene terephthalate. Polyester unlike nylon does not have dye sites, so it is more stain-resistant. However, it is not as soft and luxurious as most other types of carpet, and is typically used for commercial carpets or mid to low prices carpets.
An inexpensive material is polypropylene. This is mostly used because it is inexpensive. On the down side it is difficult to dye and does not wear as well as nylon. Makers of polypropylene carpets compensate by making carpets with smaller loops, and this makes them wear very well, making them suitable for areas with heavy traffic. You can also make outdoor grass carpets with polypropylene.
Acrylic carpets came onto the market in the 1940’s and have come a long way since their first introduction. Rather than using strands that degraded easily, they have been developed to be harder wearing and stronger. Acrylic is usually colour-fast, and they have the feeling of wool, making it an ideal material for making rugs.
Finally, wool carpets are best known for their luxurious feel, and are used almost entirely on the domestic market. Wool is extremely durable, and luckily there is no shortage of sheep willing to give up their fleeces, so it’s quite abundant. Even so, it is fairly expensive compared to the other types of carpet, especially when combined with synthetic fibres to make it stronger and more durable. Most wool carpets today are a mixture of 80% wool and 20% synthetic fibre.