Anyone use Cork?

[CARS]

I was watching a DIY show last night and their was a tv ad for cork flooring.

Resilient, water proof... Water Proof?? So a google search was on.

I found cork available up to 60" wide and any lineal foot length you need.
Granted, 60" x 14' was $175.00, but... wouldn't it be very flexible and best yet, no seams!

Thoughts? Ideas? Discussion?

[GuitarPhotog]

I grew up living on cork floors. They were 12" X 12" tiles, but that is not relevant here.

Cork flooring is soft underfoot, but fragile. A high-heeled shoe can punch a hole right through under the wrong circumstances.

I would avoid using it for anything even moderate duty unless if was just an appearance or "trim" item.

Too soft. Too expensive.

<Chas>

[Trackstriper]

What source did you find for that 60" wide?

[GPW]

I've got about 6000 wine corks saved up (really!) .... any ideas ??? ...

[wagondude]

We have a bank here that had what looked like cork flooring in the lobby. It turns out that it is rubber (recycled tire bits). My understanding of the cork flooring is that it is conpressed to make it more durable, unlike the stuff used for bulliten boards.

[CARS]

What source did you find for that 60" wide?

http://www.bangorcork.com/Natural-Tan-C ... 1-60-c.htm

If you scroll down this page they actually have up to 72" wide

http://www.bangorcork.com/Cork-Rolls-an ... s-s/31.htm

Looks like it is mainly for BIG bulletin boards

[rdelmendo]

Hi Chris-

I used wine bottle corks that my wife and I have been saving for over 20 years. It took me about 8 hours and 4 tubes of Liquid Nails for the galley door...


Cheers,

Ron

[GPW]

Ron , that's pretty COOL !!! Liquid nails ...hmmmm??

[john warren]

I've got about 6000 wine corks saved up (really!) .... any ideas ??? ...

how about a corky? a td made totaly out of wine corks....might not be water proof,,,,but after emptying that many wine bottles,,,,,you probably wouldn't care.

[GPW]

JW , Cool idea !!! Just wouldn't be fair in a "Spot the Hoser" contest eh ???

[Trackstriper]

Looks like it is mainly for BIG bulletin boards

Hmmm...that probably won't work for floor applications, I've seen the pre-finished flooring in various configurations, just not sheet. Thanks for letting me know what you were looking at.

[starleen2]

I used wine bottle corks that my wife and I have been saving for over 20 years. It took me about 8 hours and 4 tubes of Liquid Nails for the galley door...

NOW THATS a lot of cork!

[pete42]

I've got about 6000 wine corks saved up (really!) .... any ideas ??? ...

GPW I have one AA

6000? really 6000? You didn't save them all from bottles you drank right.

Altho I remember this one night myself my wife and 5 other people flew our airplanes to South Bass Island in Lake Erie
a friend owned a cabin on the airport we parked our planes in the yard and headed off to town in a corvair yep 7 people in one corvair, we were close friends

anyway after visiting several wine shops we had about 12 bottles of wine and headed back to the cabin with some to drink and some to take home..

.let's just say none made it home at least in the bottles.

I do not recommend drinking and flying....

[CARS]

Looks like it is mainly for BIG bulletin boards

Hmmm...that probably won't work for floor applications, I've seen the pre-finished flooring in various configurations, just not sheet. Thanks for letting me know what you were looking at.

I wasn't thinking floor. I was thinking it may be flexible to use in place of luan.

It's one of those things that if I was bored and had a bunch of extra money (ya, right) it would be cool to try.

Speaking of my roof, I need to make a phone call to a local cabinet shop

[GPW]

Pete, I had Help ... the wife ...