Cork flooring is a soft like suede and comfortable flooring option for any room in your home. Due to its porous nature, the air that gets trapped inside cork is a natural shock absorber. This makes it a great choice for areas where you will be standing for long periods of time, like in a kitchen. In addition to being a shock absorber, it is also a sound barrier. The cellular structure of cork flooring reduces noise and vibrations, so it is quieter all around to walk on. When you install flooring materials such as tile or wood, you get noise whenever you walk on it with hard shoes. Not so with cork! Additionally, cork flooring reduces the impact of items dropped on it, lessening the chance of breakage.

Even though cork flooring seems like a relatively new idea in terms of a flooring option, it actually has been used in public buildings (like churches and libraries) since 1898. Builders chose cork for its renewability, its strength, and its durability.

If you have a child who has allergies, you may want to consider installing a cork floor in his room. Cork has natural properties which make it anti-allergenic, as well as resistant to insects. Cork contains a natural waxy substance called suberin, which fend off bugs, mites, and mold. Additionally, suberin protects cork from rotting when wet for long periods of time – this makes it a great choice for the basement.

Cork flooring comes in many different colors and can be bought in different tile shapes and patterns, as well. Cork’s luxurious appeal from the natural, earthy colors exude a rich visual texture to all who gaze upon it. Cork flooring is made from tree bark, which makes it a natural and renewable resource. It is created by stripping the outer bark from the cork oak tree; this process does not harm the tree, and the tree naturally produces more bark. These trees live for around 200 years and are highly prized by their caregivers.

To learn more about High End Cork Flooring, please contact one of our design consultants at 1-800-764-1633.

Quickstyle Industries is committed to the environment, and the demonstrate it by manufacturing all of their laminate floors. The core of their laminate floors are made up of 90% of recycled wood fibers, typically from the byproducts of their other products, like sawdust, shavings, and other wood products. They’re bonded under a high-heat with a biodegradable resin.

When it comes to hardwood floors, Quickstyle also uses materials that are heavily monitored by the Forest Stewardship Council, an industry watchdog group that makes sure companies are complying with sustainable flooring best practices.

Quickstyle carries a number of different environmental products, including:

• Bamboo: one of the most environmentally sustainable flooring choices available today.
• Cork: used as a flooring product for over 100 years. Comfortable underfoot and dampens sounds.

Quickstyle’s flooring products are great for the environmentally conscious who also want a good looking floor at a reasonable price.

To learn more about Quickstyle, please contact one of our design consultants at 1-800-764-1633.

Stepco Hardwood Flooring has every kind of flooring to fit your need: solid or engineered, finished or unfinished, domestic or exotic. Why not outfit every room in your house with Stepco Hardwood Flooring to maintain a seamless look throughout your home?

Stepco began producing hardwood flooring in 1979. The focus back then remains the same today: to bring their customers the absolute best quality flooring at economical prices. While other flooring companies talk about offering a good price to customers, behind closed doors, it’s all about the bottom line. Not so with Stepco!

Also, most flooring companies import a large amount of their products from around the globe and have very few factories that they can call their own. When you buy Stepco Hardwood Flooring, you get the value of having a consultant that will monitor the production and the quality of the product all through the manufacturing process. But Stepco has more than hardwood. If you’re so inclined, check out their other lines of laminate, bamboo, and cork flooring.

Stepco also realizes that more and more consumers are using the Internet to shop. That’s why, instead of allotting a larger percentage of the advertising dollars to television, magazine, or radio, Stepco focuses more on Internet branding. This allows the company to sell directly to dealers (like us) for less, and translates into a lower price to you, the consumer.

Currently, Stepco Hardwood Flooring comes in sizes from 2.25″ to 7.5″ wide. This means you have a lot more flexibility when shopping Stepco’s lines. Depending on what type of hardwood you choose, you will be able to nail down, glue down, or staple down these attractive floors and then spend years admiring your new floors.

To learn more about Stepco, please contact one of our design consultants at 1-800-764-1633.

Expanko Cork Flooring comes in Traditional Tile, Specialty Tile, Contemporary Tile, and their exclusive Artistico Collection. Each collection has its own unique features that will bring a brand new look to any home.

The Traditional Tile from Expanko Cork Flooring comes in matte polyurethane and unfinished, and ranges in thickness from 3/16″ to 5/16″. The tile size of this collection is either a 12″ x 12″ or a 24″ x 24″. You can even order custom options: any dimension up to 12″ x 36″ or 24″ x 24″ and 1/8″, ¼”, 3/8″, or ½” thickness. This collection comes in Traditional Cork – Light, Traditional Cork – Medium, and Traditional Cork – Dark.

For the Specialty Tile, you can choose either matte polyurethane or unfinished as well. Tile thickness comes in options such as 3/16″ and 5/16″. The tile size available is 12″ x 12″, and custom options here include: any dimension up to 12″ x 36″ or 24″ x 24″ (Mosaic Wide Strip, Mosaic Thin Strip and Ardosia are not available in 24″), and 1/8″, 1/4″, 3/8″, 1/2″ in thickness (however, Mosaic Wide Strip, Mosaic Thin Strip and Ardosia not available in custom thickness). Products in this collection include: Terra Tile Light, Terra Tile Dark, Wide Mosaic, Serra, Rapado, Lagos, Thin Mosaic, Granito, and Ardosia.

The Contemporary Tile Collection from Expanko Cork Flooring also comes in matte polyurethane and unfinished, and is available in 3/16″ in a tile size of 12″ x 12″. Custom options include dimensions up to 24″ x 24″ and 12″ x 36″ in a 3/16″ thickness. In this collection, you can find such exciting options as: Algarve, Douro, Coreia, Castello, and Strada.

Finally, in the exclusive Artistico Collection from Expanko Cork Flooring, you can explore such lovely choices as Viale, Topazio, and Listra. You will need to inquire about thickness and tile sizes for the specific option you’re interested in.

To learn more about Expanko Cork Flooring, please contact one of our design consultants at 1-800-764-1633.

Actually it’s over 62 if you consider it can be custom colored too  Any way you lay it, Duro Design can be ordered in any variation of 62 stylish colors.  Have a unique home or exotic taste? This incredibly durable and modern flooring can be tinted to make any room as unique as its owner. Duro Design has its rainbow of colors organized into several categories: vivids, pastels, neutrals, warm woods, dark & rich, and desert sands. Since every customer is sure to find the right hue and texture, it might be easier to choose a floor to match your decor than the other way around.

Of the newer flooring products entering the market in recent years, no one single product has been able to satisfy all of the criteria that make a truly “green” floor. However, bamboo and cork come close. They are at the top of the list when it comes to sustainability and low environmental impact.

In the words of Duro Design, bamboo is a truly sustainable harvested grass. Bamboo can regenerate itself more than eight times faster than traditional hardwood forests. And as an added bonus, harvesting process does not kill the plant. Selected for its hardness and overall strength, and the fact it matures in about six years, Duro Design is steadfast about using mature Moso Bamboo.

Duro Design produces two types of bamboo flooring, Solid Strip flooring and Extra-Wide Engineered Planks. Solid strip bamboo is installed in a similar way to traditional hardwood flooring, usually using nail- or glue-down techniques. The engineered planks can be enjoyed for their width. They are also more versatile and can be installed as a floating floor with a bit more flexibility as to what kind of subfloor is required.

Unequivocally passionate about making a small environmental footprint, Duro Design creates products that meet and exceed industry standards. Their fine selection of bamboo floors is no exception. And with over sixty-two marvelous colors to choose from, Duro Design bamboo floors will certainly make an impression in any home.

To learn more about Duro Design bamboo, please contact one of our design consultants at 1-800-764-1633.