Do you have Berber carpet?

[DisnyMama]

Replaced the regular builders cheap stuff with a pretty diamond pattern berber in a beige, grey and light brown mix so nothing, and I mean nothing would show. Paid about 1K including removing old carpet and install for the living room, stairs, upstairs hall and both bedrooms including a walk-in closet. It looked great and with a teanage DS having his friend over regularly, eating in the living room and my nephews it was a great choice. Sure, it could have been a little softer under foot but it was soft enough. I would love to put it in my new home but just can't justify replacing this carpet that's only a year old.....Yet!

 

[LuvN~Travel]

Simba and Cali enjoy using it as a scratching post.

Our cats Chloe and Pepper do too. I am SO hoping to change out to wood or laminate floors in the next year or too. I like berber, but sure don't want cat scratched berber. lol
Kim

 

[bettyann29]

When we bought our house in 2006 it came with Berber carpet and I HATE it.. I think its ugly ugly ugly.. Did I mention I think its ugly? Thank goodness we are getting new carpet this year.. and guess what it wont be..

You got it! it wont be Berber.. Not that I hate it or anything..

 

[golfgal]

We chose it for our house and actually really love it. It's easy to clean, which is a HUGE plus as we have 3 dogs and hope to add children to the family soon. It's easy to vacuum dog hair out of =)

We have a pattern to ours, which helps break up large spaces and disguise traffic marks.

Downside is that it can pull - but you just have to snip it at the base with scissors. We've had a few pulls; one was from pushing a dresser across the carpet instead of lifting it and the corner caught, and a couple from dog nails that got too long. You can't see any of them now that they were cut off.

I have been told that berber quality makes a big difference in how easily it runs and how easily it cleans up.

Here is a picture of ours in an empty (unpainted!) room so you can see the pattern.

We just put this in our dining room--different color though. I LOVE it. We have more of an 80's berber in our family room that is fine but it isn't something I would have put in there (came with the house). We are going to be redoing all of our flooring in a year or so and will replace that with red oak floors. There are SO many different berbers and some are nice and others are really ugly.

 

[smilie]

We have berber in our living room, but regular carpet in all the other rooms. I like it, it's very easy to keep clean. It also seems like I don't need to vacuum it as often. Either that or it hides things better.

 

[Jeafl]

We put it in our basement and I hate it with every fiber of my being!

The edges of the stairs get filthy and they simply cannot be cleaned. I've had every professional you can think of come out and try. When you shampoo it, it stays wetter than regular carpets because the shampooer cannot grip the carpet enough to suck the water out. My vacuum cleaner also caught a pulled loop and pulled out about a four-foot long section which now looks like crap.

It does have one redeeming quality in my opinion, and that is that it never shows footprints. It does tend to hide the dirt too I guess.

Unfortunately we went top of the line and spent $7000 on it, so DH refuses to replace it.

I do agree with whoever said the padding is the most important part though, don't skimp on that!

 

[Disneylover79]

Thanks for all the advice... we are just starting out looking for houses and we are first time homebuyers so it is a little confusing to us..... thanks again

 

[kldmom2000]

The previous owners installed it just a few months before we bought our house.... it's in the finished basement family room. I HATE IT! I just feel as though it's never fully cleaned even with my Dyson.... the dirt gets trapped under all the loops.... it snags and pulls and you have to snip the strings before it gets really bad. If my cat yaks up a hairball on it... forget it! Just plain nasty, nasty, gross!!!! Ewww....

Can't wait to get the $$$$ to replace it with hardwood or even Pergo!

 

[luv2nascar]

I can't remember what ours is made of but I don't like it. It was put in brand new house just over 5 years ago. It is getting shot. We do have 2 kids and had a cat and dog. It is a cream color and stains. High traffic areas are murder on it. It is our whole main floor. We will be replacing it with hard wood soon as we can afford it.

 

[floridafam]

We had it in our previous house and hated it! It was hard to keep clean and we just didn't care for it.

We put sisal in 2 rooms last year in our current house and absolutely love it. The sisal is extremely easy to keep clean and very comfortable to walk on.

 

[ElizK]

I would love to have Berber carpet in my house. I like the different blends and patterns it comes in. But my husband won't agree to it because if a thread pulls, it pulls all the way across. At least that's what he's been told.

It's true. We chose it for our family room. We bought our house new almost 6 years ago. The berber looks AWFUL now. We have 3 "runs" along the seam line. It is frayed around the edges where it meets the tile. Also, it doesn't vacuum as well as regular carpet, because stuff catches in the loops. I can't wait to be able to afford to replace it with laminate flooring.

We loved the berber when we first moved in. It looked good, was comfortable to walk on. Just wasn't as durable as we'd hoped. That being said, I certainly wouldn't ever mark a house off my list of possibles just for berber carpet.

 

[mrsv98]

HATED our berber carpet. It was impossible to clean and I have a steamer that I used all the time. We pulled it out a couple of years ago for a dense plush and love it. It vacuums and cleans really well.

 

[arminnie]

HATED our berber carpet. It was impossible to clean and I have a steamer that I used all the time.

Mine got horrible horrible spots on it. I had a reclamation guy out after a water backup one time, and he explained to me that the kind of berber that I had (over 10 years ago) would get awful stains from JUST PLAIN WATER. I think it was wool. It got permanent yellow/orange stains if it got wet.

I like the way it looks, but it was awful trying to keep it clean. I never had any snags though.