What Kind Of Carpets Are Ideal For A Large, Busy Office?

If you have a new office that you want to fit out, finding the right flooring will be an important task. Not everything is suitable for this purpose. Laminate floors, for example, can be too noisy underfoot and too prone to wear and tear in areas of high footfall.

An obvious solution is a carpet, which can add comfort, colour and a sense of style and luxury. It can also help insulate the office and keep it warmer in winter.

However, not every kind of carpet is suitable for an office either. A soft, deep-pile carpet may be just the thing when you are walking barefoot around the bedroom, but what you need in the workplace is something more practical.

The Ideal Office Carpet

Aesthetics are an important factor to take into account, but first and foremost, you need something that is hard-wearing, as it will have a lot of footfall on it in some places and the pressure of having furnishings placed on it in others, from table and desk legs weighed down by computers and other items on top, through to wheeled castor chairs.

Furthermore, a carpet that helps absorb a lot of sound can help keep the volume down when people are walking through the office, ensuring staff are not disturbed while hard at work. It also needs to be easy to clean when the inevitable coffee and food spills occur.

Burmatex Brilliance

The good news is we stock carpets that suit these needs very well. Burmatex Carpet Tiles can be just what you need. Not only are they designed with offices and other public and commercial spaces in mind, but come in many colours to enable you to choose shades that suit you, whether simply to make the office more attractive or to match company colours.

For example, the Burmatex Balance Ratio offers various shades of green, yellow, blue, red, orange and more to provide lots of choice, while also having the essential qualities you need.

Measuring 7mm thick and made in a tufted gauge loop design, it has a class 33 heavy commercial use wear rating, which makes it almost as hard-wearing as you can possibly get and exactly the sort of thing you need for a busy area with a lot of foot traffic.

It also has a ‘continuous use’ castor chair rating, which is just what you need for carpeting around desks as staff roll back and forth on them. This carpet also absorbs a lot of sound and has good resistance to static, which is often a problem with some office carpets.

As proof of the durability of these carpets, they come with a 15-year warranty and there is also the bonus that, as they come in tile form, you can always buy more tiles than you need to start with and replace individual tiles if ever you need to, although this should be a very rare occurrence.

Terrific Tivoli

Another Burmatex product that could be ideal for your office is the Tivoli range. These carpets include the patterned Tivoli and the Tivoli Mist, with the former coming in various colours and the latter featuring multicoloured hues that fade into each other.

Once again, the attributes of the Tivoli carpets make them ideal for office floors, with a continuous use caster chair rating, heavy commercial use wear rating and the same 15-year warranty as the Balance Ratio range.

However, apart from the colour patterns, there are some small differences, with these carpets being 6.5 mm thick.

These are just two of the many varieties in the wider Burmatex range, which will enable you to compare a lot of different options while knowing that there are plenty of possibilities that meet your essential practical criteria. The choice is ultimately about design and style.

Of course, as we stock many different brands of carpet, you will not be surprised to learn that we have others that are also suitable for offices.

An Awesome Array

For example, Heckmondwike has a long history of producing carpets that are well-suited to offices and commercial environments. A good example of this is the Heckmondwike Array. This range comes in a variety of dark blue-grey tiles with flashes of other colours across, such as red, blue, magenta and lime green.

Among its great attributes are being fibre-bonded, which means it will not unravel or fray, while it has great static resistance and noise reduction qualities.

The carpets we stock are also highly sustainable. Although synthetic materials like nylon are present, these are recycled and largely recyclable as well, so they won’t end up in a landfill.

By being green, practical, comfortable and aesthetically attractive, our office carpets can meet your full range of needs.