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Coconut wood flooring is made from coconut trees. Coconut trees
rejuvenate quickly, growing to full maturity in 5 to 6 years. This
makes it a truly sustainable resource. Coconut wood flooring is
harvested from coconut plantations at the end of their coconutbearing
years and are then cut down and replanted with new
coconut palms with the old palms made into our coconut
wood flooring.
Showercork mosaic tiles made from post-industrial wine cork
material. These pieces of clean wine corks, approximately 1/4"
thick, are attached to a special paper backing which enables easy
adhesion to the subfloor or wall substrate. Once the showercork
sheets are set and bonded, the installation is completed in a similar
fashion to a traditional ceramic or stone mosaic, using a "sanded"
grout pasted down around the cork discs. Showercork is very
versatile it is sometimes either prefinished with 2 coats of a waterbased
urethane, or unfinished, which can be stained any colour.
Due to the stability and durability with grout, the result is a product
which is durable and versatile. It can be used in almost any interior
finish application, however demanding the environment.
EcoRock is a new product which acts like a dry wall.
It uses 80% less energy to produce than gypsum drywall
Naturally cured and dried. EcoRock eliminates the energy-intensive,
high c02 generating calcining and oven-drying found in gypsum
drywall production.
It is made of 80% recycled materials
EcoRock is made using 80% post-industrial recycled waste,
including waste from steel and cement plants with no gypsum.