Cork Tile Flooring Vs Bamboo Flooring

In order to give an warm, intimate, and modern look to your home, you need to choose the flooring that not only matches your interior décor, but also complements your lifestyle. Therefore, it is important that you choose a right floor for your home that meets your needs and adds beauty to your rooms at the same time. The following article aims to compare two popular types of flooring including factors such as style, design, eco-friendliness, durability, noise, cost, wear, fashion, elegance, warmth and cleaning.  Take a look and decide which type of flooring suits you best

Flooring is one of a few parts of your home which immediately grabs the attention of your visitors.  A perfect floor is one which not only adds a new feeling of warmth to your home, but is ecologically sound and manufactured in keeping with the international flooring standards. In this article we compare two popular types of flooring for a variety of factors such as sustainability, cleaning, maintenance, colour, style, wear, cost, elegance, durability and hardness.

Cork Flooring:

Although cork floors were considered old-fashioned in the past decades, there is an emerging trend of installing this type of flooring nowadays.

Cork flooring is relatively hardwearing and absorbs sound efficiently. It is easy to care for and one can wipe up spills easily with the help of a dry towel.

Usually it is supplied in the tile form and you can apply the satin or gloss polyurethane finish after the flooring has been laid. 

It is important that you pay a close intention when applying finishing so that staining doesn’t take place due to spillages.

Cork floors also perform well in the wet areas and high traffic. However, one of the biggest disadvantages of installing a cork floor in your home is that you may have to the re-surface the whole floor, if you want to replace a damaged area. Moreover, it is also quite difficult to find a perfect match with the existing cork tiles.

Bamboo Flooring:

The choice of Bamboo flooring offers its countless benefits for our already compromised natural resources.

Bamboo belongs to the grass family of plants, and as only the top of the plant is removed leaving the roots in tact, it can regrow on its own within 5-7 years of its harvest.

Therefore, bamboo makes a continuous source of hardwood thus reducing the cutting of rainforests on a large scale. 

Bamboo gives your flooring a natural glow, and flows seamlessly from room to room. The durability and hardness of the bamboo material also plays an integral part in its selection. Bamboo flooring is 70% harder than Jarrah and 50% stronger than Maple. Making it the ideal choice for both residential and commercial applications. Bamboo flooring is scratch resistant and makes an ideal choice for your home if you have pets and children.

Bamboo flooring not only looks like conventional timber flooring, but it also has the attributes of quality timber flooring. Traditional timber floors can’t match bamboo flooring for consistency of grain pattern .

Just like timber flooring, bamboo flooring can be sanded and polished to give it a fresh and new look. Bamboo flooring is will continue to serve you for many years while retaining its organic glow and beauty.

Bamboo flooring is usually supplied pre-finished and can be installed over a sub-floor by glue-down method, or floating-floor method.

When bamboo flooring is installed through glue-down technique of installation, the bamboo planks absorb the sound efficiently and you are less likely to experience the irritating sounds of heavy boots and high heels.

If any damage does occur, another advantage of installing a bamboo floor is that it is possible to replace a damaged area, you don’t have to re-surface the whole floor.

Bamboo flooring scores high marks when it comes to cleanliness and health. It can be easily cleaned by using a micro fibre mop, a broom or a steam mop. Moreover, it is allergen free as it doesn’t make use of formaldehyde and other banned harmful chemicals in its manufacturing.