The cork floor is really nice and soft under your feet. I have never laid cork floors before so I ended up laying this one twice! Yikes! You have to have perfect underlayment and some very serious adhesive.
Cork tiles must be laid on perfectly flat surfaces. This house is about a hundred years old and so was the underlayment. We replaced all underlayment with 1/4" plywood. The seams needed to be stabilized and the screws countersunk. Tough work, but someone had to do it (insert pic of muscle woman).
The cork tile had to be set with a serious glue that had rubber bits in it and looked like tar. It was very similar to laying porcelain tile only I had to be extremely careful not to get the adhesive on the tile. I also had to get someone to carry very heavy roller into the house so that I could roll it flat! yuck! It made me feel weak (blast you darn heavy roller).
Once the tile was set (like 3 days later) I applied 3 coats of Enduro-Var by General Finishes. I love this stuff, and plan to use more of it on wood projects of all kinds in the future.
Thanks for visiting me in my little world of WONDER WOMAN POWERS!
Thanks for visiting me in my little world of WONDER WOMAN POWERS!