Are you considering upgrading flooring materials in your K-W home? If being eco-friendly is important to you you ought to look closely at “green flooring”.
Flooring is thought to be “green” when it is manufactured from easily sourced and renewable materials. Generally flooring made of petroleum-based materials is not considered green.
Many hardwood floor materials are also not considered green for the simple reason that the source trees are relatively scarce and time required to replace hardwood trees is measured in decades.
This video presents a quick overview of different types of green flooring. These include wool carpeting, carpets made from recyclable nylon, stone, ceramic and porcelain, cork flooring, bamboo flooring. Linoleum and vinyl flooring are also included because they are long lasting and can be recycled.
It sounds like the way to go! I’ve been thinking of ripping up my old 80′s carpet in my apartment that the pets seen to have made as a “second home” (I think you know what I mean) unfortunately it wasn’t scotch guarded so it’s long overdue.
It was intriguing to see that the cork flooring matt could be made from old wine cork tops. I didn’t think it could be recycled or repressed, I’ll probably consider the nylon option though given the behaviour of my two pups, just hoping that it’s competitively priced compared to the traditional option. I’ll definitely check out their website.