WOOD & LAMINATE


consider sustainability and environmental issues, as Nicolas explains: “We always recommend the use of natural, healthy materials wherever possible. This often includes engineered wood flooring, but many clients are concerned about its suitability with underfloor heating systems. We know from our own experience that most Tarkett engineered wood flooring is totally compatible with this type of heating, so we have no problem in recommending it.”


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a water-borne or self- limiting electrical system that provides an even heat over the whole floor area. It is suitable with any thickness of engineered wood, but floor heating may cause movement in the floor. Since beech and maple move more than other species, they are generally not recommended. Expansion gaps should be left between thresholds, and will also be needed when covering larger areas.


With little sign of recovery in the current housing market, many homeowners are


looking to make improvements to their existing home, fuelling the recent increase in popularity of real wood flooring. Tarkett is a leading manufacturer of engineered wood products and Mike Harrison, UK Marketing Manager, confirms the trend: “With growing appreciation of environmental issues, homeowners can take comfort from the fact that more trees are replanted than are used in flooring production.


“In Europe particularly, virtually all wood is sourced


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from managed forests where two trees are planted for every one felled. Tarkett also offer a heat-treatment process using native European woods that create the darker wood effects of more exotic species, but without the ecological price tag of rainforest degradation.”


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