Cork Flooring for Your Home & Family
How can you give your family the best quality home without breaking the bank? When it comes to flooring, you need a durable, quality product that they can enjoy for years to come. As your family grows through the years, you want them to have a safe place that feels familiar and comfortable - one they can look back upon with fond memories.
Cork flooring helps you create this wonderful and safe space called home. It's a sturdy yet soft, warm and healthy surface on which your family can enjoy all the adventures and memories of home. Cork flooring truly is your family's friend!
Cork Is Family Friendly, Naturally
Family friendly flooring is affordable, durable, and safe for kids to play on. It's easy to clean when pets shed hair and dirty sneakers wander through the house. Family friendly also means its the healthiest, most resilient and comfortable flooring option for your family to enjoy for years to come!
Cork floors are the answer to family friendly flooring because cork is naturally:
- Hypoallergenic, anti-microbial, and anti-fungal
- Comfortable yet durable
- Easy to clean
- Thermally and acoustically insulating
When you bring cork flooring into your home, you experience it in a whole new way!
How Cork Makes Flooring Better
There are two main reasons why cork is so naturally family friendly as a flooring material. The first relates to how trees heal themselves after the cork bark harvest. When its bark is carefully removed every nine years, the cork tree emits a substance called Suberin in order to regenerate it's bark. This same Suberin is present in cork flooring, and it's natural properties give it its healthy properties.
The second is cork's unique cellular structure. Each cork cell has over 2 million enclosed air cells per cubic inch. Since cork is mostly made of air, cork floors are comfortable to walk, rest, play, and fall on (as kids do)! The air cells also act as a thermal and acoustic insulator. Cork floors help maintain room temperatures (reducing energy bills) and inhibit sound transfer, bringing some peace and quiet to the home.
It should also be noted that homes with other types of flooring such as hardwood, ceramic, and LVT, can also take advantage of cork’s physical properties. Cork underlayment provides benefits such as sound control, insulation, and crack protection.
The Best Flooring for Each Room
Cork flooring can be installed throughout the home in virtually any room. A wide variety of colors and patterns are available, and this is a matter of personal preference. Practical considerations, which are equally important, are outlined in our blog article on Choosing the Best Cork Flooring. Understanding these factors will ensure that your cork floor looks and performs great.
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