Cork Flooring Center

Cork is a popular choice for flooring and is used by millions around the world. It has found its popularity due to a whole host of qualities that it has as a flooring material. Let’s take a look at the qualities that make it such a popular choice for flooring and you never know it may interest you:

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1.            Beauty
Cork is an exceptionally beautiful and natural product. There are so many design options available when choosing your cork flooring tiles. Almost any design that you can find in ceramic tiles is now available in cork. This is partly due to being able to veneer and subsequently print on the cork. These days cork flooring
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With its proven reputation for beauty and environmental safety, cork flooring is a popular choice for homeowners and businesses alike. The comfort and beauty of these floors are ideal for kitchens and dens, heavily trafficked areas that require materials that are both attractive and highly versatile.

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Cork originates from the bark of the cork oak tree, which comes from Mediterranean locales like Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and southern France. The wood from these trees has a cellular structure that acts as a natural shock absorber, trapping air and responding well to

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bathroom cork floor

Cork is a logical choice these days to use as flooring in our bathrooms. This is all due to its wonderful qualities as a material and the added strengths it receives from being processed in the factory. Let’s not forget that using cork is an eco-friendly choice which is just perfect should you be looking to turn your house green.

Cork has an innate beauty, quality and warmth that set it apart from other bathroom flooring options such as carpet, tile and vinyl coverings. Cork is produced from the cork oak tree; it is produced in a manner that does not kill
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Top 5 Myths of Cork Flooring

Most people think of cork as the little thing at the end of a bottle of wine or the pop that comes from the end of a champagne bottle. Cork has been around for centuries and has been used for many different products of the years, it its modern day form you can find it in shoes, wines stoppers, coasters, tablemats and in modern day flooring. One of corks best strengths is its ability to be super soft underfoot yet still be durable enough to stand the daily toll of foot traffic it receives as a flooring option.

Myth 1: Cork destroys trees, it is no better an option than mahogany

False: Cork is one of the most renewable resources on this earth. It could even be said to be more ecofriendly than its friend bamboo. This is because once a cork oak tree reaches the age of 20 it will be valuable for the following 170 years. Cork is harvested from the top layers of bark from the tree in early summer thus allowing the tree to recover each year and subsequently produce another harvest the following year.

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Cork has to be one of the best eco flooring options available to modern day consumers. When you harvest cork it doesn’t kill the tree as the cork is essentially a byproduct of the tree. This gives the tree huge eco credentials as compared to hard woods that have to be felled before being utilized.

Because of the way cork is harvested it means that the cork tree has a working profitable life of over 170 years.  Whereas traditional hardwoods can take up to 50-60 years to mature and subsequently are only valuable the year they are felled. In comparison the cork tree starts to produce enough bark to start being valuable after only 20 years of growth thus making it much more economically viable than your more traditional hard wood.

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So you’ve gone out and found your perfect design for your cork tiles. You’ve arrived at
home with all of the tiles and equipment and would love to get started on the work as soon as possible. But alas you have realized that it may be a good idea to check up on how to install cork flooring easily and properly to ensure the best results with minimal time.

• First things first, premeasure the room you are laying down the cork flooring in to make
  sure you have bought adequate supplies. Add an extra 10% onto your total room size to
  provide you with some leeway.

• Bring your cork flooring into the room for installation and let it acclimatize to the room so as not to have your floor shrink after you fit it. Three weeks of acclimatization should
  suffice.

• Remove all furniture, baseboards, fixtures and fittings that will prevent you from fitting theflooring. Remove doors as well that will impede on your work area.

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