Take a look under the carpet

Our home should be pleas­antly warm and cosy – espe­cially in the autumn and winter time. Car­peted floors can help a great deal: They are warm to the feet, slip-proof and offer high walk-on com­fort com­bined with good sound insu­la­tion. In order to ensure that car­pets res­ist wear and tear for as long as pos­sible and do not form waves, it is advis­able to glue them to the sub­floor over the entire sur­face. Solvent-free adhes­ives guar­an­tee a healthy indoor cli­mate and are eas­ily recog­niz­able by qual­ity seals like EMICODE^®.

If you like to walk around in socks or bare­foot in your home, you will appre­ci­ate the warmth and com­fort of a car­pet under your feet. The advant­age for allergy suf­fer­ers is that the air­borne dust is bound in the car­pet from where it can be eas­ily vacu­umed off every few days. Today, tex­tile floor cov­er­ings come in all kinds of col­ors, pat­terns and formats, thus offer­ing their own­ers a wide range of design options for their homes.

Loose-lay is often chosen for installing wall-to-wall car­pet­ing. How­ever, in rooms sub­ject to high traffic like the hall­way or chil­dren’s rooms, it is recom­men­ded to glue the car­pet firmly to the sub­floor. This makes car­pets more hard-wear­ing and extends their ser­vice life. It also pre­vents the form­a­tion of waves, caused for example by chair castors. If under­floor heat­ing was installed, there is no oth­er choice than full-sur­­face bond­ing. With no air space between car­pet and sub­floor, the heat is trans­ferred faster and more dir­ectly to the room. This pre­vents energy losses and saves heat­ing costs.

When buy­ing car­pets, seals such as GuT (Asso­ci­ation of Envir­on­ment­ally Friendly Car­pets) help you identi­fy good qual­ity and avoid harm­ful sub­stances. How­ever, to ensure an odor­less and healthy home, it’s just as import­ant to know what’s under­neath the car­pet. For this reas­on, make sure to always use solvent-free dis­per­sion adhes­ives for fix­ing the car­pet.