All About Cork Floors

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. 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. 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.

Cork trees can live for a couple centuries this is because they are not killed in this cork harvesting process. 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 old hardwood 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 style from hardwood, cork, marble and more, along with just about any color, and old 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. For many years to come your new cork floors will be a great conversation piece.

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