Children's carpet

When equipping a child's room an important issue is the choice of flooring. After all, the child spends time on the floor, almost more than in bed. Therefore, it is quite natural that parents want to choose a material that meets the basic requirements for a child’s room:

1. The material must be environmentally friendly.
2. Kept warm to avoid colds when playing on the floor.
3. It was not slippery, preventing falls during outdoor games.
4. Pleasant when touched and soft enough so that the blows during the fall were insignificant.
5. Did not accumulate static electricity.
6. Easy to clean.
7. It was durable and affordable.
8. Had a lot of color options suitable for children.

The most common choice is between parquet, laminate, linoleum, carpet, cork.

Parquet and laminate are good because they are easy to clean, stains on them do not remain.Parquet, as a natural material does not cause allergies. This floor is warm enough. But both options are hard and slippery, and therefore falls are inevitable, and bruises are sensitive. The disadvantage of this coating is that while running, the tramp sounds are not absorbed. In addition, these materials can be deformed if they are hit by water.

Linoleum can also protect against cold, if it has a soft base, then from bruises, but slippery. The main disadvantage of linoleum is the presence of harmful emissions, and often an unpleasant odor.

Cork cover can be the closest to the ideal. It is natural, does not cause allergies, does not slip, keeps heat, softens bruises, is easy to clean. Its disadvantages include not very high strength, a small variety of colors, and yet this option can not be called affordable.

Carpet is also called roll carpets. It is mainly available in rolls of various widths.At its core, is a combination of carpet and linoleum. That is, it has a pile and a foundation.

The advantages of carpet, as flooring for a child's room can be considered:

• This coating will always protect against cold. It is convenient for playing on the floor, it is nice to run, sit and lie on it. The carpet fixed by a plinth does not slide on a floor. On it you can run without the risk of slipping. But even if the fall happens, the injury will not be strong due to the softening of the nap and the foundation. It has good sound insulation, softening the sounds of running, which is important for maintaining good relations with the neighbors below.

• Unpretentious styling, you can handle it yourself.

• It can be laid on any basis.

• Cleaning is possible both dry and wet.

• A huge variety of colors and patterns that make the children's room elegant, bright and interesting.

Like all fleecy materials, carpet very well collects dust that eats into a pile. Can serve as a habitat for insects, dust bugs, bugs, ticks, mold. On a light carpet, stain removal is a rather complicated process.Carpet made from artificial fiber can have harmful secretions, and with natural fiber can cause allergies.

It can be noted that this cover has quite enough advantages to use it in the nursery, and the shortcomings can be minimized with the right choice and care. Therefore, we will carefully consider how to make the right choice.

Due to the fact that carpet has a high popularity in the market, manufacturers are trying to fulfill the most diverse requirements and demands of customers. Accordingly, there are many varieties of such coverage. It may differ in the pile material: wool, polypropylene, polyamide. The basis of carpet is also different: natural jute, felt, rubber base, artificial felt.

And also the carpet differs:

According to the production technology, woven carpet is similar to oriental carpets, when on the base, usually jute, the warp threads and the surfaces of the same or different colors are interwoven. Such products are durable and beautiful, but quite expensive.

Tufted manufacturing method involves the use of needles for flashing the base with a pile thread.The thread is fixed on the basis of the adhesive composition. Tufted carpet can be looped or tufted. Needle-punched carpet is made with the help of threads, laid on the base and hammered with needles. This carpet lint-free and more like felt. It has good sound insulation.

Pile carpet is in the form of a loop, such material is more rigid. If the loop is cut, then the pile is softer. Especially pleasant is the so-called velor carpet, the villi in this case are split at the tips, which gives additional softness and smoothness, facilitates its cleaning.

Different is the length of the pile and the carpet. In short pile length is 2-3mm; stilted - 3-5mm, long pile - over 5mm. For covering in the nursery, the optimal variant of fabric or tufted sacking carpet, although long-haired is softer and more pleasant, but it requires much more maintenance. It is worth paying attention to the density of the coating, the higher it is, the stronger and more durable.

There can not be a question of choice between artificial material and natural. It is difficult to answer in monosyllables.Of course, for children, you always want to choose only natural materials. But the carpet from natural materials has tangible flaws. Wool often causes allergic reactions. Fissile pile accumulates more dust and is harder to clean. Natural materials always attract insects, mold can appear in them, especially if the room has high humidity. This coating has a short service life at a high price. And if you still decide to choose wool, it is advisable to consult an allergist.

Choosing the color of carpet is not an easy task. The abundance of colors and patterns is such that the eyes diverge and it is already difficult to concentrate. But still it is worth taking seriously some aspects. The bright colors of the cover look good, but in the nursery they can quickly become stained, not all of which can be cleaned. Darker options can make the nursery more gloomy. It is more reasonable to choose not monochromatic coloring, so spots will be less noticeable.

But with the diversity there is an opportunity to overdo it. Too bright and colorful coatings can cause eye fatigue, irritability and aggression.

For children of preschool age, there are a lot of options for playing carpeting. The “town” drawing is becoming increasingly popular, where the city with its streets, houses, squares, palaces and rivers will be depicted on the floor. Towns can be large or small, for girls and for boys.

In addition to towns, on the cover can be depicted the ocean, Lunapark, Kalinka, brook, safari, carousel, robin and much more. These flooring options make the nursery a fabulous country and will help to take the child for a long time, camouflage small spots, make the nursery fun and festive. The carpet with such children's drawings is issued taking into account all requirements for children's goods, and pass the additional control. Do not forget when buying to be interested in a special certificate for such products.

As the child grows, play patterns will no longer be entirely appropriate in his room, so you can choose geometric patterns if the flooring is laid for a long time. An interesting variant of the design of the coating is zoning, when the game version is laid only on a small space.Carpet is good because a lot of color options make it possible to embody any creative ideas.

Each type of carpet has its own nuances, which are indicated in the instructions on the package. Do not neglect these recommendations.

Carpet with wool pile and jute base poorly tolerate cleaning with the help of washing vacuum cleaners. They dry for a long time, the base can be deformed and mold and disintegrate from moisture.

If possible, remove the spots immediately, not allowing them to penetrate deeply, then their removal will not be a big problem.

Like any product with a pile, the carpet cover also requires deep professional dry cleaning, preferably twice a year.

Most of the use of carpet in the nursery has positive feedback. Parents note that they chose this cover in order to protect children from colds when playing on the floor. Softness makes it safe to drop to the floor of the kids.

There are also negative sides.Some have incorrectly chosen light colors, which have led to rapid contamination and the appearance of stains. There are some difficulties in cleaning and cleaning the carpet, but in their responses, the parents note that the use of modern detergents greatly facilitates this process. The disadvantages of this material are overlapped by the convenience of children, the joy of bright colors and the tranquility of parents that children are safe.