Cork Flooring


When you think about the cork first of all the concept of vine bottle opener and bulletin boards perhaps arise in your mind. Europeans are using cork for the purpose of flooring for more than a century with in Europe. Cork flooring became popular during 1920s and cork floor are still using for both commercial and residential floor making. With the passage of time cork flooring’s popularity decreased as new wood materials introduced as alternative for wood flooring like vinyl flooring. Nevertheless now again cork flooring is going to be famous due to its interesting and cost effective material.

Cork is perfect for every kind of room. You can install this versatile material in every room where ever you want. But for the wet area like bathrooms you must seal it well to avoid its damage and to prevent voiding the manufacturer’s warranty. Unlike the wooden floors cork flooring come form the bark of trees not from basic wood. This bark is collected from Portuguese or Spanish cork oak tree and can be collect after every nine years and amazingly it reproduce on the tree for future collection. It is also harmless for the tree. These trees live for more than five centuries. After collecting this bark from trees it grained for the sake of manufacturing of cork flooring. Cork flooring is a wonderful selection if you're searching for a soft floor that is comfortable to walk on. Cork flooring comes in rolled sheets or varying sizes of squares. It is also available in tiles and floorboard with different thickness range. It can be glued to the sub floor or installed to kind of float on the sub floor.

Cork is a natural product so it can warm and enhance every kind of interior. Cork floors are very comfortable to walk on. They keep relax your feet while you walk on it. Cork is more than 50 % air that’s why cork floor has light weight than other wooden floors and the cork floor is scratch free. It has wonderful insulating property and it is almost warm as you feel carpet when you place your feet on it. It is also allergy free and easy to maintain. The air pockets in cork floor slow down the transformation of heat. Due to heat absorption cork floor is also use in public buildings like schools, offices and hotels. Cork floor are available in wide range of size, colour and thickness. So you can choose it in accordance of your room furniture colour. Once you installed your cork floor then its maintenance is very easy. You can give a new look to your cork floor by just giving broom and mop occasionally.

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