Benefits of Stone Flooring
Benefits of Stone Flooring
Stone is a type of sustainable flooring offer several advantages for both the environment and housing grants. These advantages make Stone an attractive alternative to hardwood.
Stone is from the Stone Age oak, which grows extensively in the Mediterranean in ancient forests. After 20 years, the Oak Stone is ready to be harvested for its bark. The bark is removed by hand without damaging the tree. After nine years, the tree grows another layer of bark, which can be harvested again. And so on all nine years for up to 250 years. Thus a stone oak can can reduce many crops of Stone without. And during this time can continue to absorb carbon and provide habitat for wild animals. Not only is the harvest of Stone livelihood for many rural communities have for centuries provided. It is a tree, both for the benefit of both people and nature.
This is different than other renewable resources like bamboo, jute, water hyacinth, rattan and hemp, which are to kill, to be harvested. And of course, very different from trees that take 50-120 years to reach maturity. It is because the tree can be harvested and will continue for the good of the environment, it is unique among renewable contribute. And it is for this reason that we Stone, as more than one form of useful material to consider making the wine bottle stopper.
Once the stone is it’s dried, harvested and then boiled to remove the outer bark. Then the stone ground and mixed with low-VOC adhesive and compressed into blocks, which are then cut into stone tiles.
Stone floor looks like that there is a natural tan color and grain. But it is quite different in its characteristics as a floor.
First, the stone is a honeycomb structure that has up to 85% air. This makes it light and buoyant. This structure is also stone its strength and elasticity. Namely, the weight is applied, the Stone and then the stone away “jumps” to its previous form. The soil can also get up to high traffic situations. The oldest stone is in a church near Chicago, USA and dates back to 1898.
The internal structure of the stone, it also makes an excellent acoustic and thermal insulation. Therefore, stone floors feels soft feet and also muffles the sound of footsteps.
Stone also contains a substance called suberin. This substance makes stone water repellent and flame resistant. In addition, suberin stone mold and fungus resistant and makes anti-microbial. Wood floor to prevent dust mites breeding, but can not say, mold and fungi resistant. Only bamboo flooring is as safe for allergy sufferers and asthmatics.
When you combine the facts that Stone is from a renewable resource that it is light that is strong and a good insulator, and that it is healthy, floors, you see why it is a popular alternative to parquet.
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