Renewable Eco Friendly Flooring

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 resources in the UK. 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 the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or other stewardship councils to ensure we plant more trees that we cut down.

Engineered wood flooring should now be the choice for any floor as for every 100 m2 of solid wood flooring you can get 400 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: