Does anyone here have any experience with cork flooring. The wife was watching tv the other day and decided that she wants new kitchen floors. And is wanting cork so any help would be good. As in brands and durability.
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Whether she goes with regular tiles or floating floor, just make sure that it's pure cork and not plastic with cork content. (Epocork)
Cork is long lasting, can be refinished and warm to the touch.
Makes a great floor but is still a wood product so don't put it where you might have water ponding for any length of time.
Gabe
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We put down "Natural Cork" last year. T&G engineered floating planks 12" x 36".
Three layers; Ordinary (corkboard type cork) on the bottom, then an mdf type middle, top layer was burled cork. Absolutely gorgeous. The closer you look, the better IT looks. Nice, quiet, soft,
I wasn't particularly happy with the supplied finish though, it seems a little opaque to me and does not bring out the "grain" like I would have expected.
If I were to do it over I'd float a nice thick coat of oil base poly over the floor to better seal the seams.
Gabe is right about the wet locations too. Even though the floor comes pre-finished, and I added two coats of water based poly, it will swell up if water sets on it too long ( melted ice cube, dog pee) After drying it shrinks back almost to where it was before wetting, but not quite.
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