Big Green: Expando Cork flooring and off-gassing
John Beeson
John.Beeson at smithgroup.com
Tue Aug 29 10:33:33 EDT 2006
Has anyone had experience with Expando Cork Flooring? They stated to me
that the samples have a matt polyurethane coating and the offgassing
smell will subside in a week.
EBN's article is about 10yrs old and expresses concern about
manufacturing process and installation.
"On the whole, EBN is impressed with the relatively benign resource-use
in cork products but unconvinced about occupant health issues.
Manufacturers all claim to use safe binders, but in digging deeper EBN
found evidence of not-so-safe materials. Should these flooring producers
develop and document less-toxic binders and installation methods, cork
may become an ideal flooring material for many applications. In the
meantime, use it only with proper indoor air quality precautions."
Is there anything else out there? Any thoughts or suggestions?
-John
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