Cork for floor - where to see / purchase

wendyn

May 23, 2016 at 5:30am

Looking to put cork in our kitchen. Anyone have a good showroom where I can see a good variety of samples? Also any advice on the difference between the floating floor type vs tiles?

We installed raw, non-finished 12" tiles over a fresh subfloor about 20 years ago. We wax it when we wax the floors. Love, love, love it. (Note: Slight color variation was partly our fault - we stored the tiles in bright sunlight prior to installation and some lightened a bit.)

We purchased our "Dodge-Regupol" tiles at Hannon Floors in Union they may carry other vendor's products as well.

OliveBee

May 23, 2016 at 8:53am Edited

kmk said:

We installed raw, non-finished 12" tiles over a fresh subfloor about 20 years ago. We wax it when we wax the floors. Love, love, love it. (Note: Slight color variation was partly our fault - we stored the tiles in bright sunlight prior to installation and some lightened a bit.)

We purchased our "Dodge-Regupol" tiles at Hannon Floors in Union they may carry other vendor's products as well.

Oh that looks lovely! Dodge is a good company. Also Expanko has good cork products as well. Most oi these companies have local representation - look online for locations. And soem will send samples to you.

Be sure to get either unfinished or polyurethane pre-finished (satin or glass), but avoid PVC. Aside from my environmental opinions (and some facts too!) about PVC, typically when pre-finished with PVC, the cork tiles have a cloudy appearance on the surface.

As far as environment is concerned, look up the toxicity of PVC and the problems folks are having who work in the PVC production factories (dioxin comes to mind). I am convinced that one day it will go the way of asbestos...it will become a haz mat.