Comments on: Green Flooring – Eco Friendly Flooring

By: Patrick Morton

Patrick Morton — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:50:13 +0000

Good day, my personal preference is a combination of suspended wood flooring and quarry tiles. The tiles for the wet areas (bathroom. kitchen) and wood for the rest.
As a kid (on a smallholding) we had cow dung flooring in the outbuildings, in the kitchen, and on the verhandas… using a weathered cow dung slurry, laid and skimmed with a floater and sealed with wax. Sets like concrete and great insulation!

By: Mr.Dirty Boots

Mr.Dirty Boots — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:45:00 +0000

Thanks for the info, that sounds like a great option. I have been hearing more about it lately. And we certainly drink the wine to provide plenty of supplies!

By: LJ

LJ — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:09:13 +0000

I LOVE my cork floor! It is beautiful, quiet, and easily cleaned. I read that “the cork oak tree is not destroyed and then replanted but rather the bark is trimmed from the tree every 9 years, leaving the tree and the forest undamaged. Its not unusual to have a 200 year old tree still producing cork bark. Cork flooring is actually made from the waste of the cork wine stopper manufacturing process so cork flooring is a recycled product.”

By: Vacuum Guy

Vacuum Guy — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:05:40 +0000

My choice would be minimally treated or untreated bamboo. This is such a pretty hardwood floor choice. Plus bamboo grows so quickly, it’s one of the most easily replaceable woods (or grass rather).

By: families live green

families live green — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:29:06 +0000

My favorite green flooring option would have to be cork. Not only is cork a sustainable product, but I just love the look and feel of it.

By: Elisha

Elisha — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:40:36 +0000

I own a dyson. I bought it because my dog sheds all year and I thought that at the time it would be the best way to get up his hair, which sticks to every thing and is impossible to get out of fabric. I actually bought the pet version of the vacuum. It’s awful. It always loses suction, the customer service people were awful and tried to get me to fix it myself (for the 3rd attempt) after I hauled it across the city to their one certified repair shop in Chicago and I was standing in the store. I will never buy another dyson. I would much rather have bamboo flooring that I can sweep with a broom (or any flooring I can sweep with a floor, but a lady can dream.)

By: Goo

Goo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:21:22 +0000

Our house originally had quarry tiles and some rooms still do-makes getting rid of dog hairs easier. But we’ve carpeted because otherwise it’s just too cold. Our house, and our canal would never have existed if it wasn’t for the pottery industry, so I’m afraid we’re losing some big, kiln-burning eco-points here!

By: Lucy @ Smallest Smallholding

Lucy @ Smallest Smallholding — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:46:15 +0000

The dining room floor of my house consists of 100 year old terracotta/clay tiles laid directly onto the foundations (well, bare earth) of the house. In summer they’re lovely and cool, but as summer only comes but once a year, for a great deal of the year it makes the house much colder than I’d like. We also think we may have some damp creeping in.

Usually, I love terracotta tiled flooring, but I’m surprised to admit that I want to rip these beggars up. To polish them up and make them look nice and neat would mean using harsh chemicals (we’ve tried every other trick in the book and this is our last option). Not particularly eco-friendly. But when I’ve said that I would rather replace them with carpet, I get shrieked at. Just because it’s an original feature of the house, doesn’t mean it’s a “good thing”. And besides, I wouldn’t just rip them up, I’d try and preserve them and ‘recycle’ them by selling them to someone else, who can deal with them in whichever way they choose.

We have original floorboards, which are nice, but draughty too. Since we carpeted over our spare room (small room, creaky floorboards, carpeted with discounted end of roll remnant that could have gone to landfill), we’ve noticed how much *warmer* the house is, how less dusty it is (less vacuuming with our DYSON), and how we can turn the heating down more on cold days.

I guess, as ever, it’s about weighing up the pros and cons.

By: Mr.Dirty Boots

Mr.Dirty Boots — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:24:55 +0000

H.S good point,

I have actually seen quite a lot of bamboo products advertised of late.

Ayesha,

Lino? That brings back memories. Mostly of getting stuck to it in student houses

By: Ayesha

Ayesha — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:37:06 +0000

Although it is pretty expensive I think that old-fashioned linoleum is making a comeback. It uses linseed oil amongst other things is very long lasting and hardwearing and these days comes in some very funky colurs and designs. We have a large floor area in our house in Slovenia and have gone for tiles over underfloor heating. They will be forever so they are very neutral!