Looking for a suitable floor covering, you should look as a real alternative to hardwood and laminate definitely cork. The material that is otherwise rather known as bottle cap, as flooring offers outstanding features. In UK you can easily get knowledge about cork flooring by leading UK stockist of wood flooring.
Cork is a natural material and a renewable resource. Not a single tree to be felled for the production of cork, as cork is obtained by peeling the bark of the cork oak. The tree does not thereby damage the bark grows back and can be harvested again after about nine years. Cork is 100% recyclable and thus a very sustainable resource.
But in addition to the positive ecological aspects provides cork as a floor covering a number of advantages. Cork absorbs the impact noise, is impervious to water and has good insulating properties which affect the energy balance is positive. The floors are resilient and therefore offer the perfect properties for the kids, for example. Smaller drops are much better absorbed than by hard hardwood or laminate. In addition, cork flooring is warm and therefore very comfortable even when barefoot. Therefore cork is also a good alternative to carpeting.
Points can also cork with its ease of maintenance, simple vacuum and dust enough to care from perfect. Cork flooring is antistatic, does not collect dust mites and ensures greater cleanliness in the house, but this can also be laid in excellent Allergy households.
The strength of the cork flooring varies between four and six millimeters, depending on the model. Massive cork flooring is also ground off and can be brought back to a shine with oil or varnish. Read up on the best advance whether your soil is suited just printed cork floors can lose by grinding your look. Make sure that you use only solvent-free paints, so you can continue to enjoy a health-safe ground.
When laying your cork floor you have the choice between cork tiles and cork floor. Cork tiles must be sealed and sealed cork floor can also float with a tongue and groove system, similar to laminate and engineered flooring to be laid. Cork works such as wood and should therefore only be laid with expansion joint.
But beware: Not every cork flooring is suitable for installation over under floor heating; your best will inform you here before with your retailer if a transfer is possible. Therefore you again need a trusted and leading UK stockist of wood flooring.
With cork you gain a modern, easy to clean and environmentally friendly flooring that combines many positive properties. Perhaps cork is thus also a real alternative for you?