Wood Flooring

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Renewable Eco Friendly Flooring
Wood flooring is our only renewable choice, plastic is environmentally unfriendly coming from fossil fuels, concrete and other forms of flooring damage our environment with the energy required for their production.

Wood is a natural product that grows in abundance. England was once covered by forest and even though we cut most of it down our forefathers had the good sense to replant large forests although we do not now get a lot of our flooring from our own forests.

Most of our Oak flooring now comes from Europe, the extensive forests of Russia, especially Siberia and North America.

All these countries have a programme of replanting and maintaining sustainable forests working with FSC or other stewardship councils to ensure we plant more trees that we cut down.

Carbon Footprints

The production of Wood Flooring uses less energy in its production and processing than any other construction material. For example it 5 times more energy to produce 1 ton of cement, 24 times for 1 ton of steel, and 126 times for 1 ton of aluminum.  Young trees absorb more carbon dioxide than mature trees so it makes sense to harvest our older trees and plant two new ones for every one felled.

Engineered wood flooring should now be the choice for any floor as for every 100 m2 of solid wood flooring you can get 500 m2 of engineered flooring even with a 5mm solid top layer that you can sand down the same number of times as a solid wood floor. The main points for using an engineered floor are:

• Engineered floors do not move like sold wood floors
• We can produce 5 times as much engineered floors compared to solid oak floors
• Engineered Flooring can be used with underfloor heating solid wood cannot be used
• The plywood base is made up of layers of birch and sometime a mix of popular both fast growing trees that are in abundance, and these trees are replaced helping to reduce our carbon footprint.
• Our engineered floors with a 5mm solid top layer can be sanded down the same number of times as a solid wood floor due to distance from the top of the tongue.