The One Thing Most People Get Wrong When Buying a Carpet
You spend an hour picking the right carpet. The colour, the texture, the price. You bring it home, get it laid, and it feels great — for a while.
Then a year or two later, something feels off. It's flatter. A bit hollow when you walk across it. The edges won't sit right. You blame the carpet. But honestly? The carpet was never the problem.
Most people skip the padding underneath — or just grab whatever the installer throws in. It seems like a small decision. It isn't.
Good carpet padding is what actually makes a floor feel plush and warm. It's what absorbs the sound of footsteps in an apartment. It's what keeps moisture from building up under the surface during Indian monsoons. And it's what stops your carpet from wearing out from the bottom up, years before it should.
The thickness matters. The density matters. And matching the right padding to your specific carpet matters more than most people realise. A bedroom needs something different from a hallway. A ground floor flat needs something different from a third floor apartment.
One simple habit that helps — whenever you're buying carpet, ask the seller directly: "What padding works best with this one?" How they answer that question tells you a lot about whether they actually know their product.
Padding doesn't get talked about. It sits out of sight and gets forgotten until something goes wrong. But get it right from the start, and your floors will feel better, last longer, and give you far fewer headaches down the line.
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