Cork 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. This is a flooring that you must consider when deciding to change the flooring in your home.
The cork that is used for cork floors is harvested from a cork oak tree. This is not like when hardwood floors are made because the cork tree is not cut down to produce the flooring. The cork tree produces enough cork every nine years for it to be harvested. One side of the tree is stripped of the cork and this is the cork that is used to manufacture the flooring. So the tree is in fact is not killed and the forest can keep growing being unharmed, like new hardwood floors. Cork flooring is a major environmental choice.
It has been believed that the cork trees live for over two hundred years because they are not killed. As for hardwood floors the trees must be cut down and replanted to complete the process. 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 new 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 old floors. The finished product of your cork floors can come in an array of different patterns.
If you decide that you are going to install cork floors you will be doing the environment some good. Your cork floors will also be a conversation topic for many years.
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