Carpet Tiles Guide

Carpet tiles are an essential choice for practical and affordable but great looking floors in commercial offices, retail stores, public buildings and other business properties throughout the UK.

From the manufacture and development of carpet tiles to practicalities of installation and modular flooring care, this is a product that has been evolved to fit perfectly into a vast range of industries and buildings and today offers a huge range of benefits to business users.

Our carpet tiles guide looks at how this product was conceived, developed and manufactured, the best ways to install tiles, proper care to get the most out of the product and some of the creative design uses of carpet tiles in office and home environments.

Understanding the details of modular flooring systems helps commercial businesses like offices, retail stores, doctor’s surgeries and public buildings make better informed choices about the ideal carpet tiles for them. Today it is possible to make all sorts of choices dependent on where you are putting in carpet tiles, how the space will be used and moral choices like choosing an environmentally friendly carpet tile manufacturer.

Browse the various sections of this website to learn more about where carpet tiles come from, the best ways to use and install modular floors and how to get the most out of commercial carpet tiles.

Alternatively, to start browsing Flooring Directs range of high end and value carpet tiles from Heuga and Interface visit our online carpet tiles store.

Commercial Carpet Tiles

Carpet tile manufacture

What lead to the carpet tile being developed and what materials are they made from? This section looks at the manufacturing process, some leading brand names and modern efforts to reach environmental sustainability with a product once criticised for its carbon footprint.

Carpet tile installation

The practicalities of laying carpet tiles and benefit of using a professional installer; this section also looks at the best uses of carpet tiles in commercial environments like offices, and some creative design routes to take with modular flooring systems at work or at home.

Carpet tile care and proper usage

This is a product that is all about putting a soft floor where a hard floor should practically be, and getting the most out of your carpet tiled floor requires some ongoing but simple maintenance that can be provided by a specialist floor maintenance company or your own facilities team.

Flooring Manufacturers Flor by Heuga Polyflor Milliken Altro InterfaceFLOR F.Ball