Four Benefits of Installing Carpet in Your Home

With so many flooring options to choose from, it can be difficult to determine which one is best for your family’s needs. Carpet offers a variety of benefits you simply can’t achieve with other flooring options. Read below to understand many of the unique ways you can add beauty, performance, comfort, value, and sustainability to your home by getting carpet installed.

Carpet is an easy way to add beauty and style to any room. Depending on the look you want to achieve, the carpet you choose may be a neutral foundation or a focal point with vibrant colors, bold patterns, and interesting textures. It will reflect how you want to personalize your living space. With thousands of carpet styles and colors to choose from, the possibilities are endless!

New carpet provides more warmth and comfort in any room. Carpet offers some thermal insulation. So in colder climates or cooler times of year carpet retains warm air longer than other types of flooring. In addition to keeping your home cozy in the winter, this attribute conserves energy. Carpet also provides a comfortable place to sit, play, or work and gives your room an overall warmer feeling.

Carpet in a room may provide some safety benefits for the whole family, including toddlers, older individuals, and pets. Carpet cushions our footsteps, reduces the likelihood of slips and falls, and minimizes injuries if falls do occur.

Carpet in any room can be a great noise reducer. Big-screen TVs, speaker phones, computers, and sound systems make our homes noisy places. Carpet helps to absorb these sounds, making it easier to work, learn, and sleep. Adding a cushion pad beneath your carpet reduces noise even further. Carpet also works as a sound barrier between floors by helping to block sound transmission to rooms below. And carpet on stairs dampens the sound of foot traffic.

Universal Carpet, Inc. carries many great carpet options, designs, materials, and price points for all your tastes, needs, and preferences. Whether you’re located in St. Charles, Sleepy Hollow, Wayne, or West Dundee, stop in to visit to our showroom in South Elgin, IL. You will see our many carpet options. We have been in business for over 30 years and have many happy customers in the Chicagoland area. We look forward to helping you improve your home with new floors!