Understand Your Material Choices

• 1). Remember that nylon carpet is resilient, abundant, strong and relatively inexpensive, but it's static-prone. Nylon often has a stain-treatment finish, allowing many stains to be easily removed.
  
  
• 2). Know that Olefin carpet is moisture-resistant and easy to clean, but tends to flatten.
  
  
• 3). Consider that wool is long-lasting and resilient, but stains are sometimes hard to remove.
  
  
• 4). Remember that acrylics and polyesters may pill.
  
  
• 5). Keep in mind that looped and twisted (fris¨¦) carpets resist matting more than plush styles, in which you're walking on the cut end of the fibers.