When you’re in the market for new floors, hardwood flooring is a great way to upgrade your home while staying friendly to the environment. Hawaii Flooring Specialists provides expert commercial and residential flooring services in Honolulu, HI. When you want quality tile, wood, vinyl, carpet, or natural stone installation for your home or business, the professionals at Hawaii Flooring Specialists will exceed your flooring needs.

Why should you install wood floors? Hawaii Flooring Specialists is here to explain a few of the environmental benefits, as well as how hardwood floors can be an advantage for your health:

• Carbon Neutral: Wood produces oxygen during its growth and stores carbon during its life — including the time it’s used for your flooring. Since wood doesn’t emit carbon emissions, it won’t have a damaging impact on the environment.

• Recyclable: Once your hardwood flooring has serviced its purpose, it can be burned for fuel or recycled for things such as reusing it to make other items or ground into sawdust for compost heaps. This prevents adding unnecessary waste to landfills.
• Uses Fewer Resources: Wood requires less electricity, heat, and water to produce as opposed to other types of flooring. For example, stone takes massive amounts of energy to quarry, transport, and install. Vinyl is created from petroleum — a non-renewable resource — and must travel thousands of miles to reach North America. The resulting product lasts only 10 to 20 years and cannot be recycled.
• Better Air Quality: Since wood is a natural product, it emits fewer pollutants into your home’s air. Carpet is made from chemicals and other unnatural materials that are released into the air, and older carpets can trap dust, dirt, and mold which can affect the air you breathe. Vinyl flooring can contain volatile organic compounds that evaporate into the air and cause health problems.

Improve the appearance of your home with an environmentally friendly choice. Contact Hawaii Flooring Specialists at (808) 842-7755 to find out how you can upgrade your floors. Find out more about their available flooring options or view their gallery when you visit them online.