Cork Flooring...Anybody use it?

[NoizyNinja]

Has anyone used cork as flooring in their control/tracking room?

Lumber Liquidators: 12mm x 295mm Rembrandt Cork Flooring

[gep]

We are using cork flooring in our tracking rooms and control room at Sage Arts. The studio used to have hardwoods, but due to a flaw in the design of the building's original drainage system, the studio flooded in 2004. During the re-construction post flood, we chose cork flooring with a heated floor encased in gyp-crete underneath the cork. It's really nice both sonically and aesthetically. Not as live as the hardwood, but not dead either.

Matthew Gephart

[jdg]

i used cork.
its fragile. sounds great, looks great, but man, its not durable.

i would never use it again.

[burst]

We had cork flooring in our control room and live room when we first did our studio's build-out, and ended up replacing it with wood after two rounds of ineffective adhesive meant we had loose cork tiles laying all over (and, yep, we used the recommended adhesive... no luck... twice).

I do think it was a unique sound (we tried a few sessions on it in that first month or two), definitely different than the normal wood floors, obviously... but a total PITA for durability and ease-of-install.

Also have it in our reception area and kitchen. It has faded significantly over the past 5 years, and our kitchen chairs have left their share of pock marks. Not a huge fan for these uses, either, but we do get compliments on it all the time. Every tour or new client comments on the floor. Go figure.

In any kind of high-use area - and definitely in any studio setting - we'd never use it again.

[gep]

I'm wondering if the previous two posts did not involve high quality cork flooring, as I've found the cork floors in our studio to be extremely durable. You can park the casters from a 9' grand on it for a year, and when you move the piano there are divots in the cork which dissipate to looking normal within 24 hours.

[balanceman]

I went with laminate. everything I have read about cork floor ruled it out simply because of durability.
same with bamboo - although the bamboo might be a bit harder...

you don't want to get mad at every little ding in your new, expensive (you won't find cork below $3/sf) floor do you?

have fun...

[warhead]

I have laminate here but I gotta say, that ticky / plastic sound is annoying at times!!!

Shame about the cork horror stories, it feels so nice.

War

[jdg]

mine was $5/sqft

i dunno if thats cheep or not. didn't seem cheep doing 400sqft.

2yrs later, most of it needs to be replaced. boo

[gep]

I just found out that the cork flooring I've had good experiences with is around $11-$12/sqft.

Not sure what the manufacturer is doing to make it cost that much, but I've been very pleased with the installed product.

It's a darker cork pattern, which does hide some blemishes, but we installed it in numerous rooms four years ago and none of it needs replacing.

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