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Upgrade your Floors with our Underlay for Carpets!

Discover premium floor carpet underlay at Carpets Online. Our underlay for carpets is designed to enhance comfort and prolong the life of your flooring. Whether you're renovating your home or updating your office space, our range of high-quality underlay options provides excellent support, insulation, and noise reduction.

Explore Carpets Online's premium floor carpet underlay, available in a range of thickness options to suit your specific needs. Choose from 8mm Underlay right up to the 11mm Underlay, allowing you to select one to your budget. Our underlay not just elevates comfort levels but also excels in insulation and noise reduction, fostering a tranquil and cosy ambiance whether it's in your home or office space.

Shop with confidence knowing that our underlay products are compatible with a variety of carpet styles and materials. At Carpets Online, we prioritise quality and durability, ensuring that our underlay enhances the look and feel of your carpets for years to come.

With Carpets Online, you can trust in the quality and durability of our underlay products, ensuring long-lasting support for your flooring investment.

Frequently Asked Questions

Carpet underlay is a cushioned layer installed beneath your carpet typically 6-12 mm thick made from materials like foam, rubber, felt, cork, or recycled crumb rubber. It adds comfort, provides insulation, maintains carpet appearance, and absorbs sound.

A quality underlay enhances comfort underfoot, helps reduce wear and tear, improves thermal efficiency (lowering energy bills), and significantly reduces noise transfer both within and between rooms.

Common types include PU foam (soft and cosy), sponge rubber (excellent support and sound reduction), felt (budget-friendly, natural), cork (eco-friendly, hypoallergenic), and combination or crumb rubber (ideal for heavy furniture and heavy-duty use). Each type serves different needs choose based on comfort, insulation, and room usage.

By acting as a shock absorber, underlay prevents carpet fibres from flattening under pressure. It protects against subfloor imperfections and heavy footfall, helping your carpet maintain its "bounce-back" and look fresher for longer.

Underlay traps warm air, creating a thermal buffer between the carpet and the cold subfloor. This raises room temperature and can reduce heating costs. Felt and foam underlays with higher tog ratings offer better insulation.

Certainly underlay absorbs both impact noise (like footsteps) and airborne sounds, making homes quieter. In wood or laminate scenarios, it can reduce in-room noise by up to 30%.

Yes certain underlays, like crumb rubber and felt, are made from recycled materials and are themselves recyclable. Eco-conscious options are becoming more widely available.

Choose an underlay with a low tog rating (typically < 2.5 when combined with carpet tog) to allow efficient heat transfer. High-tog options may insulate too well and hamper underfloor heating performance.

It’s not advisable. Old underlay becomes compressed, reducing its cushioning, insulation, and soundproofing abilities. Using a fresh, high-quality underlay protects your new carpet and supports its guarantee.

Yes, even premium carpets require underlay for support, longevity, and warranty compliance. Skipping it risks premature wear, reduced comfort, and may invalidate your carpet warranty.