About Cork Floors
Posted May 28th, 2010 by adminCork floors are starting to become very popular in the United States and offering a beautiful and unique finish. You can lay cork floors anywhere in your home including in our kitchen and bathroom. When you are considering replacing your current flooring you must think about choosing cork floor.
Cork for flooring is harvested from a cork oak tree. It is a lot different then using hardwood because the tree is not cut down to produce the flooring. The cork tree produces enough cork every nine years for it to be harvested. The back of the tree is stripped off of the tree and this is what is used to make the flooring. In turn the tree is not killed and the forest is unharmed, like new cork floors. Cork flooring is a major environmental choice.
Cork trees can live for a couple centuries this is because they are not killed in this cork harvesting process. The process that is used to obtain hardwood floors is one that kills the trees and the new trees need to grow for up to fourty years before becoming mature. The cork flooring is made from the waste product from the cork that is used in wine bottles, which is not to be confused with old cork floors. So the cork is retained in an environmentally way and it has been made form a product that would have been thrown away.
This doesn’t mean that the cork floors are not very beautiful; they are in fact beautiful and unique. You can choose from a variety of colors and styles too. Any color and many patterns to choose from such as cork, hardwood, or marble, and new floors. The finished product of your cork floors can come in an array of different patterns.
By deciding to install cork floors into your home instead of any other flooring you are doing the environment a huge favour that it now needs. Your cork floors will also be a conversation topic for many years.