Heavy contract carpet includes some of the best cloth available.
This is recommended for any area in the house, (excluding wet areas ) from lounges to entrances.
These carpets are usually, though not always, made from a high percentage of wool. Wool being the most resilient of natural fibres, mixed with a percentage of synthetic (man made) materials, combine to produce an extremely hard-wearing carpet! A good mixture being 80% wool 20% nylon. The construction of carpet is 'the' most important factor in choosing quality!

Depending on the Loom used in manufacture, the carpet is graded in 'gauge'. Gauge is the amount of knots woven per square inch, hence tenth gauge would be ten knots per square inch!

Tenth gauge is a very close woven cloth, followed by eighth gauge. The higher gauge, the denser the pile, consequently, the harder wearing the carpet.

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