There is a lot of scope when renovating or redecorating your property to introduce environmentally friendly materials into your home, reducing the carbon footprint of both your home and the renovation project itself. As being green becomes ever more popular, options such as environmentally friendly flooring from sustainable sources is not only a good option for a healthy living environment for your family, but could also be a great selling point for your home if you’re modernising or developing for property rental or resale.

I would like to introduce you to the main types of eco flooring available on the market today. Different types of flooring are suitable for different rooms and purposes, in much the same way that other types of flooring are not suitable for every room. I have therefore broken down by room the different types of more sustainable flooring types you could consider when replacing old carpets or outdated tiles.

Eco Flooring for a Lounge or Living Room

1. FSC certified solid wood flooring
2. FSC certified engineered wood flooring
3. Reclaimed wood floor boards
4. Bamboo flooring
5. Sisal carpet
6. Coir carpet
7. Sea grass carpet

Sustainable Flooring for Kitchens, Bathrooms or Conservatories

1. Reclaimed tiles i.e. terracotta
2. Tiles with recycled ceramic content i.e. Johnsons Tiles
3. Poured rubber
4. Rubber tiles
5. Resin set aggregate

Environmentally Friendly Flooring for Bedrooms

1. Bamboo flooring
2. Cork tiles or floorboards
3. Reclaimed wood floorboards
4. FSC wood flooring
5. Natural carpeting – sisal, coir or seagrass
6. Paper carpeting

All these types of green low carbon flooring are increasing in popularity and have both positives and negatives which will make them appeal more or less to your personal requirements. You are unlikely to find natural carpeting as a cheap roll end at the carpet shop, and it may take a little more research to find a local green flooring supplier, but there are more and more companies switching to sustainable flooring options or adding eco flooring to their existing flooring ranges. Different types of green flooring all have one important feature in common however, which is that although some may cost you more than traditional flooring options, they don’t cost the earth.

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3. How to Lay Carpet Tiles or Vinyl Floor Tiles
4. The Importance of Using Underlay When Fitting A New Carpet
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