Adding a decorative area rug to your wall to wall carpet is a nice touch and can look beautiful. The rug is not only an accent piece, it also helps in bringing the room together. This beautiful look is defeated if your rug starts wrinkling and crawling around the carpet. Because the carpet underneath does not provide a very solid foundation, it is not hard to find your rug wrinkling. Using the proper rug pad for rugs on carpet will greatly reduce any wrinkling and crawling, hence adding to the beauty of your room.
Many customers tell me they have tried a few different pads for their rug on carpet and most have failed. The most popular pad that I hear about is one that is usually white in color, extremely thin and is sticky on both sides. The idea here is that the pad sticks to your rug and to the carpet to eliminate any movement of your rug. Apparently, this pad seems to work for just a short while. The adhesive wears off and does not work after some time. Another problem with this rug pad is that since it is almost paper thin, it does not have the weight or stability to work under rugs that have any type of furniture on them. This pad is not dense enough to resist the weight of furniture.
The best type of rug pad for rugs on carpet is one that is 1/4 of an inch thick. This pad is needle punched jute on one side and rubber on the other. It is technically a reversible rug pad for use on both hard floor surfaces and carpet. On carpet, the rubber side goes up against your area rug and the jute side goes down. The jute is slightly textured to grab on to your carpet and due to the hold of real rubber, the rubber side grabs your area rug. You may view this type of rug pad at Rug Pad Corner.
One important benefit of such a pad is that since it is extremely dense, not only does it greatly reduce wrinkling and crawling of rugs on carpet, it also helps to resisit any furniture weight. Let’s say you have a living room rug with a coffee table on it and all of this is sitting on top of carpet. Well, usually the parts of your rug where the table legs rest sink from the weight of the table and this lifts the surrounding areas of the rug up. The right rug pad will resist this furniture weight as best as possible to minimize any concentration of weight on a particular area of your rug.
The overall look of your room when you use the right rug pad under your rug that sits on carpet will be a clean and decorative look. Take the time and find the right rug pad to use and you, your rug and your room will be happier.
