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Natural Cork Flooring
The beauty, durability and stable properties
of cork have been recognized throughout the centuries and if you
are constructing a creative or an active space, cork is a pure
material that neither outgases nor sheds micro-fibers thus
improving indoor air quality. The acoustical properties of cork
will also dampen sound creating a more intimate space. Cork's
natural beauty is strikingly elegant and sophisticated while
remaining reasonably priced. |
Products
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Natural Cork Parquet Tiles:
Commercial or residential use. 10 year limited
manufacture warranty.
5/32" thick. Attached to sub-floor. |
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Natural Cork Floating Floor:
Commercial or residential use. 5 coats of UV-cured acrylic finish which contains
no volatile organic compounds. 15 year limited manufacture warranty. 1/2" thick.
Lays on top of sub-floor. Can be used with the in floor
radiant heat systems but not the screen type used for tile
floors. |
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Cork Rolls - Underlayment:
Cork underlayment, a lower density material, an economical and well performing
alternative for sound insulation in
building construction. Cork composition material, in
rolls or sheets, is also the ideal underlayment for
laminate flooring as it absorbs sound and provides
resiliency. 1/4" thick is great for Bulletin Boards. |
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Cork Wall Tile
- For ceilings and walls. |
Resources
Great in the Kitchen
| The kitchen is the one room in the
house where the person using it is almost always
standing, frequently for long periods of time. A natural
cork floor can literally be a great comfort to a chef or
a homemaker who has been standing for an hour or so on a
kitchen floor while working. |
Used for over a century
| Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water
home in Western, PA, has cork floors. |
| The First Congregational Church
in Chicago, IL installed their floor in 1890. |
| The Mayo Clinic & Plummer Building
installed cork in the original building in 1912. Also
installed additional cork in the 1940's, for a total of
300,000 square feet. |
| The Library of Congress |
| Offices of several Fortune 500
corporations and several churches and museums. |
*Prices are subject to change
without notice. No free samples are available for cork
flooring. However, you are welcome to purchase individual
samples on this web site. Freight charts on the web site do
not reflect actual shipping charges for the cork flooring.
After orders are placed, a freight quote will be prepared
and the customer will be asked if the freight costs are ok
for all tile orders of over 10 cork tiles, or 5 floating
floor tiles. Customers are responsible for all shipping
costs.
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If you do not want to install the flooring
yourself, you will need to hire an installer. Here are links
to web sites that offer help in finding a contractor to
install your flooring for you.
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