Cork floors: positive coverage qualities

by iibuilder-news

Among natural floor coatings, the cork is one of the most interesting.

The floor is always warm, it has magnificent sound and thermal insulation, it is easily restored with various deformations.

The cork coating is made of cork oak bark. This unusual tree grows at an altitude of 1000 m above sea level, in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Tunisia. Oak bark is removed about once every 9-12 years. The quality of the tree bark not only does not suffer, but over the years it only improves. The removed bark needs to be processed. With the help of modern means, it is crushed, heated, and then pressed, gluing small particles to each other with the help of a natural resin available in the oak bark itself.

The cork coating has an elastic structure. Its porous structure contributes to the fact that the floor of such a coating consists of half as if from closed air chambers. The room with such a flooring becomes sound – and the heat -insulated.

Another wonderful property of the cork is not electrified, and as a result, it does not attract dust. In addition, maintenance and cleaning is not difficult. A wide range of colors and shades of cork coatings is presented in modern construction markets. The natural color of the cork is light brown. Gamma of shades-from light brown to dark brown. Various shades are not the result of staining. They are obtained by placing in cells with high temperatures.

The longer the cork will stay there, the darker its shade will be.

Camping coating is environmental material. Its production is based only on natural processing tools.

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