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Cork flooring is an environmentally friendly choice that's durable, comfortable and beautiful.

Cork Flooring Basics
The cork tree is the only one whose bark can regenerate itself after harvest without damaging the tree or the environment. A variety of the oak, cork trees regrow their bark quickly enough to be harvested every six years. The tree is never killed or cut down and can produce bark for centuries. Very few, if any, of the harvested materials go to waste.

Used for centuries, cork's beauty, durability and additional benefits make it an ideal flooring choice for residential and commercial applications.

Besides beautiful surface flooring, cork underlayment is also available for use under laminate and hardwood floating floors to reduce sound transfer. At our vendor partner, we recommend cork underlayment over any other kind of noise-reduction product on the market today.

Durability and Resilience

You might think that because cork is elastic and can be compressed, that it wouldn't be considered a durable flooring choice. However, it is considered a resilient flooring with natural memory ability and has the ability to give generations of beautiful reliable service in your home. There are still many "past century" estates in Europe with Cork flooring in active use. Cork flooring like wood flooring is capable of many, many years of service when properly maintained.

Cork is also a non-slip surface that's highly resistant to liquid penetration. These qualities make it an option for kitchen or bathroom floors, as well as high profile dining and living rooms. If cork snap flooring is installed in a kitchen or bath, the seams should be sealed.

Health Benefits

Cork is more than an environmentally healthy choice. It's a healthy choice for families, especially those with members who suffer from allergies or asthma. Cork is not only naturally hypoallergenic, resists the growth of mold and mildew. It is also antistatic, so it won't attract and hold dust and pollen particles. Also essential to people with respiratory problems, a cork floor is easy to maintain and does not shed gas or fiber of any kind.

Insulating Properties

Because it has such outstanding insulating properties, cork can help pay for itself by reducing heating and cooling costs. Not only is it warm to the touch, even without under-floor heating, cork flooring has low thermal conductivity, insulating against heat and cold. These properties make it ideal over cold, cement subflooring.

Long recognized in the building industry as a highly effective sound-control and crack-suppression underlayment under hard surface floors, cork surface flooring can do the same in a home. Because it absorbs vibration, Cork dramatically dampens sound in a room, and reduces sound transfer between floors in a home or business.

Application

Cork can be applied over any subflooring, and it can be applied over nearly any existing flooring except carpet. This fact is especially useful when it comes to covering old, asbestos-based flooring. While effectively covering up the old flooring, the cork installation eliminates the need for costly removal of the old floor and the associated health risks.

Our vendor partner provides all the cork options in the marketplace, providing the distinctive, expensive look of cork flooring without the high prices. Our low-maintenance, easy-to-install prefinished cork flooring features click-together glueless planks, tiles or prefinished tiles that require an adhesive. Check individual selections and brands and the installation methods listed with each.

source for above articles: our vendor partner: iFloor