What is BS EN 14499 – Minimum requirements for textile floor coverings about?
Daily hygiene requires regular cleaning of floors and textiles covering the floors. These include carpets, floor mats, doormats, etc. With regular cleaning textile floor coverings also deals damage from regular footfall. BS EN 14499 specifies minimum performance requirements for fibrous, non-fibrous and combined underlays as well as demands for the breaking and cracking resistance.
Who is BS EN 14499 - Minimum requirements for textile floor coverings for?
BS EN 14499 guidelines on minimum requirements for textile floor coverings is useful for:
- Textile Industry 
- Carpet and doormat manufacturers 
- Product development teams/innovation teams 
- Quality control personnel 
Why should you use BS EN 14499 - Minimum requirements for textile floor coverings table?
Underlays take up shocks and stresses of footfall and weighty use, which empowers your floor covering to hold its spring for longer. This keeps the textile floor covering from smoothing and safeguards your rug, so it looks fresh out of the box for a longer period.
BS EN 14499 provides you with the minimum performance requirements and reference standards for corresponding test methods to demonstrate conformity of your products. Moreover, all carpet underlays are classified based on their intended use/applications. As a result, you can ensure your carpet underlays are fit for purpose, and offer adequate performance and service-life to its users.
The test method for determining the resistance to breaking and cracking can be beneficial for designers and manufacturers from the point of view of product enhancement and quality management.
By adopting BS EN 14499 guidelines, you ensure that customers have access to superior quality floor coverings.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 14499:2015 supersedes EN 14499:2004. BS EN 14499:2015 includes some technical changes with respect to EN 14499:2004. These include:
- The scope has been extended to include breaking and cracking resistance, which is in line with the requirement clauses;
- A number of editorial and technical inaccuracies in the text and the figures were corrected.Page Break
