Flooring / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Close-up of a Rustic, Sealed Terra Cotta Tile Floor.
Flooring and stairs

Floor Tile Buyers Guide - Choosing Floor Tiles for Home Renovations and New Builds

...flooring. Cork is softer than ceramic or stone tiles and can be easier on knees and joints.    The environmental impact of vinyl flooring Vinyl flooring, including Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT), is popular due to its affordability, durability, and a wide variety of designs that mimic natural materials. However, its environ...

All About Hemp Wood Flooring, How it's Made, Where to Buy?
Flooring and stairs

Natural non-toxic hemp flooring by HempWood & Tennessee Wood Flooring

...flooring such as hickory or maple.  Where to buy hemp flooring, and how much does it cost? The company has long been producing similar eco-friendly flooring using the same non-toxic process with reclaimed barn wood and distributes it all across the US and Canada as well as overseas. The production of the hemp floori...

Polished concrete floors and counters are easy with silicate densifiers
Paints, finishes and natural coatings

Finishing polished concrete floors with silicate densifiers

Polished concrete floors are extremely durable and non-toxic; silicate-based densifiers keep them that way and make it a great start to safe indoor-air quality in a home. This is an excellent flooring option for anyone with chemical sensitivities who wants a beautiful and durable eco-friendly floor in their passive sol...

Slate tile installation in bathrooom
Flooring and stairs

Slate tile installation - video

...flooring material? See our cork floor installation video here Durable and healthy eco friendly flooring options for green homes Marmoleum floors instead of linoleum durable, sustainable and healthy How to sand and refinish your own floors  Learn all about the benefits of signing up for a free Ecohome Network Me...

DIY cork flooring pros, cons & installation guide with video
Flooring and stairs

Cork flooring installation - the eco-friendly flooring choice, with "how to" video

...flooring installation guide: Now that you know all about cork flooring Installation, check the Ecohome Green Building Guide Pages for  other options such as how to choose eco-friendly healthy, durable floors,  Marmoleum : A healthy and non-toxic green flooring product, choosing non-toxic floor finishes to protect indo...

Marmoleum is a non-toxic eco choice for flooring
Flooring and stairs

Marmoleum: a healthy and durable flooring option.

...flooring. Many natural flooring stores carry marmoleum because it truly is the “natural” choice.      

Diving to retrieve sunken timber from the log drive
Recycled and Reclaimed Materials

Reclaiming sunken timber from the log drive

...flooring, without the risk of cupping." So as far as 'eco' building materials go, it doesn't get much better than this. The end product is of superior quality, and you are essentially cleaning up rivers and saving forests at the same time. And from an historical point of view, there is a Canadian heritage that is being...

90 year old red pine refinished with zero VOC floor oil
Paints, finishes and natural coatings

How to find a healthier wood finish

...flooring options, learn more about sustainainable building materials in the pages below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide. Find the best green non-toxic kitchen counters  Learn how to make your own DIY non-toxic natural paint see here  Why natural gas is being phased out for home heating Choosing the best...

Refinishing hardwood floors, top tips for sanding wooden floors DIY
Flooring and stairs

Refinishing hardwood floors or wood planks, top sanding tips

...flooring at a reasonable cost and that will give a return on investment of 1000's of dollars. So, with that understood, let's get into it...  Refinishing hardwood floors; sanding and careful preparation are the key Refinishing hardwood floors or regular wood plank flooring costs a fair chunk of change & sanding woo...

Eco-friendly & Healthy Flooring is best for Green Homes
Flooring and stairs

Eco-Friendly flooring material options for green homes

...flooring © Lusimat Cork is another durable and renewable flooring material. Cork is harvested from the bark of a specific oak tree, so the tree itself is left alive. Cork flooring products will often contain recycled content from exactly where you would guess — wine bottle corks. Finish it the way you would a wood flo...