Monthly Archives: October 2014

What you need to know about Cork Flooring

Author Frank Heacox Leave a comment Categories Cork, Flooring, Material

  1. It’s Natural and Safe

Cork Flooring is a completely natural flooring product, largely unchanged by processing. As far as its features and innate benefits are concerned, no man-made material can substitute or replace cork.

Cork is naturally fire resistant and it does not release any toxic gases on combustion, and cork is an anti-static surface.

It’s used by NASA as an insulator on space shuttles and unmanned rockets. (A ¼” thick layer of cork, for example, is used on the Delta II rocket — the Mars Rover II — to prevent rocket fuel from becoming too hot during engine ignition.) Read More What you need to know about Cork Flooring

Acclimating Your New Flooring: Why it’s Essential to Wait

Author Frank Heacox Leave a comment Categories Flooring, Hardwood, Material

A word of caution, never let your contractors install your new floor as soon as the cartons arrive at your home. Any new floor, whether it’s hardwood, engineered wood, or laminate, needs to sit in your house for at least 48 hours in the room it will be installed in order to acclimate or to become accustomed to a new climate or conditions.

For example, if you live in the Southwest where it’s very dry, and decided to take a vacation exploring the rain forest in Brazil where’s it’s intensely humid, it might take you a few days to get used to, or get acclimated to, your new environment. Read More Acclimating Your New Flooring: Why it’s Essential to Wait

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