Cork flooring is a great flooring choice. There are many reason more and more people are choosing cork flooring. Cork is a natural renewable material. Cork is considered to be a green choice for your home. For those who have try to be green and care for our environment, cork flooring is a top choice in flooring. When the cork is harvested every seven years it does not kill the tree. The cork is simply peeled from the tree. We have used cork flooring in many different application for our clients. We have installed cork flooring in commercial jobs, living rooms, kitchens, game rooms, exercise rooms, and through out people’s homes. To many peoples surprise, cork flooring is extremely wearable. Cork flooring has a urethane finish that can be restore if needed.
Cork flooring is a great product to use to match up to existing hardwood floors. Some people consider cork floors when match up to the existing hardwood floors because cork is in the wood family. Sometimes it is best to find a contrasting product verse putting a hardwood floor that does not exactly matching the existing hardwood floors. Cork flooring can look very nice connecting to a hardwood flooring. Cork flooring comes in a multitude of patterns and selection. So you can get the unique look that you might be looking for. The cork floors are manufactured in square tiles or click system planks. The cork tiles are made to be glued down and the click system plank is installed as a floating floors, much like laminate floors.
Some of the other good benefits to cork floors is that they are easier on your body and legs. Especially the floating cork floors. The pressure absorbing quality make cork a perfect choice for a exercise room. We also recommend cork floors to people that have problems with their legs. Compared to other hard surface flooring, cork floors is much better to absorb sound and pressure. Cork flooring also absorbs heat and has some insulation qualities. We have had clients tell us that compared to other floors in their homes, cork felt much warmer under foot than the others. Also we have had people tell us their cork floors helped with sound coming from an upstairs room. With all these qualities adding up, it just comes to see if cork flooring fits the budget. Cork flooring is still one of the higher grade floor systems to purchase for your home. Cork flooring has recently become much more economical in the last few years. There are now cork floors you can put it that cost the same as a average to lower priced hardwood floor. So if you are interested in cork flooring stop by Crystal Carpets Plus Colortile and see why we are Wilmington, N.C. choice for cork flooring.
