{"id":4037,"date":"2017-02-02T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uht.ebb.myftpupload.com\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2018-03-08T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:19:12","slug":"mohawk-smartstrand-durability-to-the-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/mohawk-smartstrand-durability-to-the-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohawk SmartStrand &#8211; Durability to the Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?--><p>Recently Mohawk tested their SmartStrand carpet for two weeks in a rhino enclosure at the Birmingham Zoo. For two weeks, Max the rhino lived in an enclosure with a carpet floor instead of dirt. Max\u2019s enclosure was lined with two types of carpet. On one side of the enclosure was Mohawk\u2019s SmartStrand Silk Forever Clean carpet, and only the other side was a soft nylon carpet.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/mohawk-carpet-mid-29-bid-396.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4041\" src=\"http:\/\/uht.ebb.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/max.jpeg\" alt=\"image 1 for Mohawk SmartStrand &amp;#8211; Durability to the Max\" width=\"620\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/max.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/max-300x157.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/a><\/p><p>After two weeks, a professional cleaning crew was brought in to clean the two types of carpet. When the cleaning was complete, Mohawk\u2019s SmartStrand Silk Forever Clean carpet looked brand new, and the soft nylon carpet was still dirty and looked matted.<br>\nHere is a picture of the carpets after being cleaned:<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4039\" src=\"http:\/\/uht.ebb.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"image 2 for Mohawk SmartStrand &amp;#8211; Durability to the Max\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/p><p>See our collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/mohawk-carpet-mid-29-bid-396.html\">Mohawk SmartStrand Silk Forever Clean carpets<\/a>.<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently Mohawk tested their SmartStrand carpet for two weeks in a rhino enclosure at the Birmingham Zoo. For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1354,91,92,975,976],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-carpet","tag-mohawk-carpet","tag-mohawk-smartstrand","tag-smartstrand-carpet","tag-smartstrand-silk","tag-smartstrand-silk-carpet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4847,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}