Cork Flooring - Click Together or Glue Down

Cork flooring has been growing in popularity and for several good reasons:

• The aesthetics are unique and beautiful
• It is a green or earth friendly flooring option
• It has flexible installation options including floating and glue down.
• Now more than ever it is priced right and available.

Customers often ask where can I use a cork floor and the answer is that you can use it almost anywhere.

I personally don't recommend it for bathrooms or laundry rooms, but it can be tough enough to withstand kitchen, dining room, living room and other primary living areas normal usage.


There are more and more cork options out there which on one hand is very good, but it can make it tougher to tell the difference between quality levels. I find that even experts in flooring, architects, designers and contractors still are hard pressed to visually detect differences between similar looking flooring options including cork.

Long story short - cork is cool and it can be very tough too, but let's be clear - it does require maintenance. The surface that is applied to cork generally allows for additional applications or coats of finish to be applied in the future which can increase the lifespan of your cork floor.

RECOMMENDED READING: Is that a Cork on your Fork? (yes a thinly veiled reference to the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.)