Wool or polypropylene carpets?

jetplane

I have always bought wool carpets or rather 80% wool. Shopping for hall, stairs and landings and I'm being advised that polypropylene is best as its so easy to keep clean and wool is not. There doesn't seem to be a lot of difference in price, but a lot of the man made ones look shiny and I don't like the finish.

Anyone have experience of both or found a none shiny man made? Thanks

TheCyclingProgrammer

We have polyprop carpets upstairs, a short pile striped carpet on stairs and landing and a deeper pile carpet in two bedrooms. Both were around the £16/m price mark.

The deeper pile carpet in the bedrooms was showing signs of wear after only a year, with the pile looking dull and flattened in high traffic areas. I don't know how much of this was down to having a rubbish vacuum cleaner but in hindsight I wish we'd got a an 80/20 mix. Will remember that when we get round to replacing them.

The shorter pile carpet on the stairs and landing however still looks fine, no signs of wear.

We used 11mm Cloud9 underlay though again, I wish we'd got 9mm as the carpet has got a bit loose in places around the edges as it won't stay on the grippers properly.

no1catman

If you have a cat - INHO - avoid wool carpets.

jetplane

Thanks I've just been to another carpet shop and been advised that wool stays clean much longer, but stains are harder to remove. they also said I was going to have to pay a lot more if I wanted man made that looks more natural.

usernameisvalid

I have wool, and I have a cat

I cunningly chose one with a fleck running through it so marks don't actually show. My sitting room is upstairs, it's actually the landing space ( 27 X 18 ft of landing space ) so the stairs and the sitting room get a lot of footfall with often mucky shoes

I've also spilt red wine on it on more then one occasion, it lifted right out

My only bugbear with the wool was, when it went down it smelt like a sheep on very warm days and it fluffed for months. Been down 3 years now and this year it will get its first all over clean