Eco Friendly Floors
The environmental movement has created great demand for flooring products that emphasize ways to recycle, reduce, reuse, recover and renew our resources. At Roth Carpet and Floors we sell and install many of these kinds of products.
Cork Flooring
Cork is an environmentally friendly floor made from the renewable thick bark of cork oak trees that grow in the coastal regions of the Mediterranean. The bark is harvested every nine to eleven years mainly to create cork bottle stoppers. The waste from this production is ground up to produce sheets of flooring. Cork floors come in many colors and in two types. One type is solid tiles approximately 12” X 12” that must be glued down to a flat substrate. The second type is cork floating floor planks. Here the cork tiles are mounted at the factory to a center core with tongue and groove edges. This floor interlocks together to create a single unit that floats on the existing substrate. Cork floors are a renewable natural floor product. They are durable, comfortable underfoot and easy to maintain. Cork is also fire resistant and provides excellent thermal and acoustic insulation.
Bamboo Flooring
Bamboo combines hard wearing capabilities and ecological considerations. Bamboo is renewable, recyclable and biodegradable. Flooring is made from the stalks of the bamboo plant which continues to grow between frequent harvesting. The stalks are uniformly sliced thin and pressed together into a durable hardwearing surface that has tongue and groove edges for an easy to install floor. Bamboo is a harder wood than oak. Bamboo can be installed by the conventional nail-down method or glued down to concrete in an on grade or below grade installation. Bamboo floors come in natural colors, new popular stained colors, or even in hand scraped textures. Bamboo flooring has a unique appearance that is complimentary to many interiors. It is exotic and elegant yet durable enough for home and business.
Natural Linoleum Flooring
Marmoleum flooring by Forbo is an environmentally friendly product made from predominantly harvestable natural raw materials and is processed according to an environmentally friendly procedure. Its main ingredient is natural linseed oil, which is mixed with wood flour, resin and limestone. Colors come from ecologically responsible pigments. Marmoleum is available as a floating floor in 12” X 36” and 12” X 12” tiles. The Marmoleum is mounted to a dense fiber board with a cork layer and tongue and groove edges. It clicks together to create a tight water resistant joint. Marmoleum click floats over an existing flat substrate and is a durable floor that is ideal for any room in the house including heavy traffic rooms like kitchens.
Wool Carpets and Rugs
Polyester Carpets Made From Plastic Bottles
Mohawk Industries is the largest recycler in the flooring industry. More than 500 products contain recycled materials including carpets, carpet tiles, cushion, laminates, and ceramic tiles. Over 3 billion plastic drink bottles are recycled into carpet fiber by Mohawk each year. (25% of all collected bottles) Mohawk also makes Smartstrand with Dupont Sorona fiber where 40% of the polymer is produced from corn. These carpet fibers are durable, beautiful and reasonably priced. Mohawk reduces waste by reusing plastic bottles to create carpet or renewing resources by turning corn into carpets.
Completely Recyclable Carpet
Shaw Industries has the most innovative environmental process for carpets. Carpets made with Shaw’s Anso Nylon can be recycled into carpet over and over again. Old carpet of Anso Nylon is shipped back to Shaw. The face yarn is separated and converted back into its original material, caprolactam, mixed with new caprolactam and made into new Anso Nylon yarn. The process does not affect the carpet quality, performance or style.