Wear-Dated® Tough Testing & Certification Ensures Durability In Your Home

Superior Nylon Carpeting Developed for the Rigors of Your Everyday Life

Wear-Dated® has been testing carpet since 1980 and have developed the Wear-Dated® Tough Testing and Certification process to ensure that every carpet upholds the highest standards of quality, endurance and performance – even over time.

Scientists, engineers and technicians test each new carpet before it can carry the Wear-Dated carpet fiber brand name, ensuring that it passes industry tests as well as lives up to our exacting standards for durability.

Wear-Dated measures and monitors what happens when people walk over the same piece of carpet approximately 20,000 times, rating how well it resists soiling and maintains its original texture and appearance. This ensures that carpet made with Wear-Dated carpet fiber truly delivers durability that a consumer can count on.

During the carpet manufacturing process, carpets get treated with stain-resistance products to protect the carpet from excessive staining when exposed to artificial food dye. Wear-Dated tests for that by pouring acid red #40 dye – similar to that used in Kool-Aid® – on our carpet to see how easily it can be removed. Then it’s “walked on” using a simulator and stained again to ensure that after the soil-resisting product is worn down by traffic, the stain-resistance is still going strong.

Wear-Dated also performs vigorous industry tests to ensure that over time:

• Carpet maintains its original texture and appearance
• It doesn’t show signs of excessive fading or discoloration after exposure to light or ozone
• Yarn stays securely attached to the carpet backing and doesn’t unravel
• Wear-Dated’s static control – products made with Wear-Dated carpet fiber are manufactured to help resist the build-up of static electricity – will never wear out, guaranteed