Cork floors are starting to become very popular in the United States and offering a beautiful and unique finish. It can be used in a kitchen, bathroom, or in the entire home. This is a flooring that you must consider when deciding to change the flooring in your home.
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. So the tree is in fact is not killed and the forest can keep growing being unharmed, like old 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.
Remember that this doesn’t mean that the cork floors are not attractive because they are some of the most beautiful floors that are made today. 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 hardwood 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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