Showing posts with label Cork Flooring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cork Flooring. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Tips for Bedroom Flooring

Make a choice of bedroom flooring that is pleasant and comfortable to bare feet. The flooring should match up with the furniture and decor of your room. It is charming and adds to the beauty of your bedroom. A variety of colors, patterns, materials and styles are available in choices of bedroom flooring. Marble flooring, vinyl flooring, wooden flooring, bamboo flooring and cork flooring are some nice choices for bedroom flooring. Carpets and rugs in bedroom draw everyone’s attention for their texture and patterns.


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Monday, April 6, 2009

Kitchen Flooring

Attractive kitchen flooring looks amazing and boosts up the working of the kitchen. You can enhance interiors of a kitchen using any of linoleum flooring, tile flooring, cork flooring, wood flooring, laminate flooring; vinyl flooring etc. Here are given a few choices of flooring for kitchen.
  • Hardwood flooring: choose hardwood flooring if you want to create beauty and style in your kitchen. It is sound proof and gives charming look in you kitchen. Hardwood kitchen flooring lasts long when properly taken care of. You can simply refinish or stain hardwood floor when you fed up with hardwood kitchen flooring. Today hardwood kitchen flooring is available in urethane finishes which makes flooring resistant to stains and water.
  • Vinyl flooring: Vinyl kitchen flooring has become popular as it comes in various colors and patterns. It is easy to stand on vinyl flooring for a long time as it consists of soft material. Although vinyl is long lasting but it may get peeled. The only drawback of vinyl flooring is that it is susceptible to water.


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Monday, November 3, 2008

Precautions for Installation of Cork Flooring

Cork flooring needs much care and maintenance for its proper installation. So it’s best to leave installation in hands of a professional who know every bit of installation process. However, here are given some tips for properly implementation of the flooring.



  • Before laying cork flooring: Before you begin to lay cork flooring, the base coat should be laid as follows.
The earth is compacted properly by watering and ramming. Sand piling is done to ensure proper compaction of the earth under floor. Then lay 100 mm thick fine sand on compacted earth. After laying fine sand, lay 100 mm thick cement concrete in the ratio 1:8:16. Make sure that the base coat is fully compacted by hand rammers or with surface vibrator.

  • While laying cork flooring: After drying level concrete, the surface should be cleaned and unpacked material should be kept at room temperature at least 24 to 48 hours before installation of flooring. Now you should prepare layout on sub floor, determine and mark starting line (usually central). Then apply approved adhesive on starting area of the sub floor and allow these adhesive to dry before laying cork floor tiles. In beginning you should install tiles with the help of straight edge and continue gluing more sub floors as installation proceeds. Trim cork floor tiles to fit precisely at cabinets, fixtures, walls as required. Then apply first coat of approved sealer with a pad type applicator and again apply second thin coat of approved sealer about 3 to 6 hours after the first coat. Scrape the floor surface as required and clean up thoroughly. Apply a medium coat of approved urethane and within 4 to 7 hours apply a final coat of urethane.

Let’s learn more tips for installation of cork flooring and try to implement the floor to augment the beauty of house.

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