What Is High Pile Carpet?

Purchasing a vacuum cleaner should be a pretty simple task, however not every vacuum is suitable for all types of carpeting. If you are looking for the best vacuum for high pile carpet you must first ask yourself, what is high pile carpet?

Here are some tips that will help you recognize whether your carpeting is considered to be pile high carpeting or not.

What Is High Pile Carpet?

High Pile Carpeting At A Glance

Many people can tell if a carpet is high pile simply by glancing at it. Carpet that is considered to be high pile looks softer and fluffier than other carpeting.

On closer inspection, the loops of this type of carpeting stands up rather than folds down, and it is less prone to flattening when walked on than low pile carpeting.

What You Need To Know About High Pile Carpeting

While high pile carpeting can look exceptionally nice and feel soft when laid on or walked on in your bare feet, it can also be more difficult to maintain and clean.

One of the things that makes this carpet so difficult to maintain is due to the length of the carpet fibers or loops.
Because these loops tend to be somewhat tall, dirt doesn’t lay on the top of your carpeting, but works its way down to the nap.

With low pile carpeting, the pile is often tighter and closer to the nap, making it easy for the suction of most vacuums to reach the nap drawing out the dirt.

However, with carpeting that is high pile, a vacuum needs powerful suction to reach down into the nap and draw out that dirt that has settled into the nap.

In addition, because the strands of high pile carpeting are often further apart than what you find in low pile carpets, more dirt makes its way into the nap.

Stains

Stains are also more difficult to remove from carpeting that has high pile.

This is because you are supposed to soak the stain and then blot the area rather than rub it and this type of carpeting is often springer as wellas longer.

This makes it difficult to blot the stain without rubbing and rubbing a stain works it further down into the pile.

Therefore it is essential that you clean all stains on this type of carpeting immediately before they set as set stains are far more difficult to remove than fresh stains are.

Your best bet in maintaining your high pile carpeting is to remove your shoes before walking on the carpeting, vacuuming daily with a vacuum that has powerful suction, and cleaning any stains immediately after they occur.

Vacuums to Consider for Your Carpet Needs

 

Shark Navigator Professional Upright Vacuum for Carpet and Hard Floor with Lift-Away Hand Vacuum and Anti-Allergy Seal Bissell 9595A CleanView Bagless Vacuum with OnePassShark Navigator Deluxe Upright Corded Bagless Vacuum for Carpet and Hard Floor with Anti-Allergy Seal