Staying Green And Transforming Your House At The Same Time With Reclaimed Flooring

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Perhaps fresh isn't the right word Charles Howey Flooring & Interiors actually uses reclaimed flooring and tiles from the 18th and 19th centuries to give its clients' homes a rustic and aged feel. Reclaiming materials simply means to re-use any salvageable materials from a building that has been demolished so builders and homeowners can save as much money as possible as well as maintaining sustainability and reducing carbon footprints and any detrimental effect on the environment caused by manufacturing brand new materials.

The company deals exclusively in this kind of reclaimed flooring for homes of all types. Obviously it works best if you're going for a farmhouse or period kind of look (mainly in the kitchen), but it can work in other rooms and as a part of other styles, provided you research carefully and really think about whether it will look good or not before you begin trying to source it and put it in. The company sources its reclaimed brick tiles from around Europe, but also does a roaring trade with those who want to get stuck into a terracotta tiles floor renovation.

Terracotta is fired clay which ...
... was used extensively in Mediterranean architecture until around the fourteenth century as surface embellishments and as a major building material in the UK and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. It has enjoyed something of a renaissance as a sparingly-used surface embellishment in recent years, with people building villas for themselves (not necessarily around the Mediterranean) and taking inspiration from the designs and decorations of those medieval originals. The company offers reclaimed terracotta tiled flooring that will give any room in the house that cool, colourful (once fired, the clay turns a shade of red, pink, yellow, grey, brown or orange) look and feel.

In addition, the company offers varying finishes of Dalles de Bourgogne antique limestone flooring, which has been quarried in the Burgundy region of France for centuries. It's extremely dense in terms of its make-up, which makes it well-suited to any kind of room and temperature, whether it's small and warm or large and cold. It also sells ProtectGuard Matt and Silk liquid sealers and finishers to be used on your floor once it's been installed in order to protect it.

While the prices for every type of floor that this company offers are listed on its website, orders have to be done by phone this gives you the chance to specify if there are potential issues with your floor being installed and for the company to ensure that it has done everything in its power to make you happy.

For more information visit: http://www.charleshowey.co.uk/