Cork warm floors: consumer feedback and design features

On the modern market in a large range of different are presented building materials. However, people who have heard about this kind of building materials, like cork warm floors (reviews about which are also rare) are very, very few.

Cork is a material that has a porous structure, impregnated with a natural substance called suberin.

It is such porous warm floors, the reviews of which can be read on the Internet on the websites of foreign manufacturers, are able to give the room additional thermal insulation, as well as excellent sound and vibration isolation. This material is durable, it is not prone to deformation, it is also environmentally friendly and safe. The floor of cork material will not slide, will not absorb moisture and unpleasant odors. The positive characteristics of this material can be listed endlessly, and, as some experts say, the cork floor is ideal for finishing the premises. Such flooring is worthy to occupy the first place in terms of popularity and environmental friendliness, outstripping even parquet or infrared warm floors, reviews of which can be found everywhere.

The entire cork material consists of several layers. The main layer is a compressed cork. The front side is presented in the form of cork veneer, but sometimes veneers of valuable tree species are used. Such warm floors, the prices for which vary depending on the materials used, are covered with either varnish or vinyl, which increases their strength.

Currently, in construction, two types of cork are used: glued and floating.

Adhesive warm floors, reviews of which are found on building forums, are made in the form of separate plates of different sizes, but with the same thickness. You can create your own song. Cork tiles are glued with special glue.

Floating cork warm floors, reviews of which are also found in specialized publications, are usually made from individual panels, based on MDF. Such surfaces are not glued, but collected in a lock. But at the same time you first need to install a substrate, and already lay the floor on it. Because of the ease of this process, you can not resort to the help of specialists, and do it yourself. This type of cork coating is widely used in residential buildings.

In addition, this floor covering design is often used to combat shock noise. Currently, there are two different types of noise that are spreading through interstitial floors. They include air and shock. The most effective way to deal with them is to install a floating parquet structure, since it does not come in contact with the side walls, as a result of which sound vibrations are not transmitted . It is thanks to the cork floors of this type that sound insulation can be increased by more than 50%, which, in turn, is a sufficiently weighty indicator.