In addition to offering great traditional cork flooring, APC Cork offers cork tiles for both commercial and residential use. These tiles are great for areas where the potential for floor damage is often a hindrance for investing further dollars into flooring. Tiles are an ideal option for areas prone to wear and tear, as they allow the end user to replace and/or repair single sections at a time. This greatly reduces the long-term costs of the flooring given that single marks, tears, indents, and the like, can be taken care of independent of having to replace the entire floor. For this reason, tiles have become very popular for commercial applications such as hotels, restaurants, schools, libraries, convention centers and office buildings, among a host of other locations where foot traffic might be heavy and repairs will be needed from time to time. What is also important to keep in mind if you are shopping for cork flooring for your business, be it a retail location, a restaurant or a bed and breakfast, you do not have to trade style and aesthetics for durability and quality. In addition, displaying environmentally friendly products in your place of business might attract additional clients or customers. As consumers become more and more aware of environmentally friendly products, they will be more and more likely to frequent and support those businesses that operate in line with their personal morals and values. Along the same vane, it may be useful to promote your environmentally friendly actions even if you do not think your customers care or know anything about them. For example, alongside your installation of cork flooring, you might want to build a display explaining the important step you have taken for the environment. This is an easy way to let your customers know what your interests are while not inundating them with knowledge in a forceful manner. What you may find is that customers respond positively to what you are doing, they tell their friends about your environmentally conscious actions, and you in turn gain additional clientele. And wrapping back around to where we began, cork can be very affordable if you use these replaceable cork tiles. Scope around APC Cork’s webpage and you will notice that the styles are so diverse that matching your current décor does not have to be a concern. As a final aside, cork has some safety features that are also a plus for commercial locations such as not releasing toxic gasses upon combustion and will not spread the flames of a fire.
