FAQ

Finding the right carpet for a room is often not that easy! Depending on the design, color and structure, the entire room ambience is influenced individually. Carpets are art for the floor and they have the ability to really highlight an entire room.

You should ask yourself the following questions to find the right size rug:

How big is the room?

How and where is the furniture placed?

What purpose does the room serve?

People tend to choose the carpet size by eye. This often means that carpets that are too small or too large are selected.

Carpets that are too small lose their effectiveness and are almost invisible in the room. Carpets that are too large make the room feel smaller and harmony is lost. The most important thing when choosing the size of the rug is that the proportions are right and what layout you want. Measure the room beforehand. Get an idea of ​​what the room should ideally look like. Where should the furniture be? What is the coloring like?

Create a living island with your cork carpet!

In the living room you can use your couch as a benchmark. Simply measure the length of your couch here and add approx. 30 cm on the left and right.

A basic rule of thumb is that a carpet should be approximately 60 cm shorter than the shortest wall in the room.

dining room When choosing a rug for the dining table, there are often bad purchases. You should always remember that all chairs should fit on the carpet. Otherwise the room image might not appear harmonious. Here you can use the following calculation for the appropriate carpet size.

Add 70cm to each side of the dining table. As a small side note: please consider whether you have a dining table that can possibly be extended.

Bedroom The first steps out of bed in the morning should be pleasant, soft and warm. It's a good idea to lay out a cork carpet. But here too, choosing the right size is important. There are different ways to place the cork carpet in the bedroom. There are different ways to lay a carpet in the bedroom.

Option 1: Lay a large carpet under the bed. The size of the bed should be taken into account here. Simply add approx. 40 - 50cm to the bed width and length.

Variant 2 lay a bed border around the bed. Here you should add about 60cm left and right to the bed width at the foot end. The dimensions for the two side runners should be 60x100cm or 60x140cm, depending on how much space you want to have laid on the left and right of your bed.

You should create a symmetrical frame in your bedroom.

Carpet for the hallway Carpet runners in the wrong size are often selected. However, you can follow the following rule of thumb: just keep a distance of approx. 20cm from the wall.

Cork is a very durable and robust material. The multitude of advantages of this raw material are enormous. Our cork also doesn't break over time. On the contrary, the material becomes even more supple over time.

The difference in the material used in our Luxury Line lies in the smaller amount available per year and the material characteristics

simply have fewer natural blemishes.

Therefore, whether Luxury or in our Linea collection, we only use the best cork that meets the highest quality standards. Here we clearly focus on the optical purity of the raw material.

Difference between Luxury and Linea

Lurxury:

• Only 1 to 1.5% of the total harvest is available for this quality every year
• small pores
• few to hardly any natural blemishes in the grain
• Visual difference full-surface tile design

Linea:

• Annual amount many times higher
• larger pores
• medium number of natural blemishes
• Visual difference rod design

Nevertheless, both lines have the highest quality standards that exist in the cork leather sector.

Yes absolutely! Our cork carpets are easy to maintain and have no problem with moisture. Even dust or other things cannot stick to the surface. If some toothpaste gets on the carpets, a damp cloth is enough to clean it.

Yes, that's no problem at all.

If you ever want to put away your carpet or underlay, please note the following. Always roll the carpets with the cork leather side facing out. The carpets should also not be folded to avoid damage to the underside. The same applies to the placemats or documents.

Easy to care!

Our cork products are very easy to care for and make your household easier!

Overall, our cork products are easy to clean: The cork surface naturally repels dirt and dust, so a vacuum cleaner is usually sufficient to keep your favorite cork piece clean. Should it still happen that something goes wrong, such as a glass of red wine or the little rascals' orange juice, it is sufficient to clean your cork product with a slightly damp cloth (preferably made of cotton) and our Corkando-Care . This means your favorite cork piece will shine in all its glory.

Of course, you have to mop or vacuum under the carpet every now and then. This is where the advantages of a cork carpet come into play: Due to their low weight, the cork carpets can be easily rolled up with the cork leather side outwards and placed briefly in the corner.

*Please give the cork rugs/desk pads a little time to feel comfortable in your home after receiving and unpacking them. Give him 24/48 hours to acclimatize. This means that the cork carpet can be optimally adapted to the room climate and laid out.

“Simply Corkkastic”

All of our products, from raw materials to dyes, are made from natural sources. This means that they can become discolored if they come into contact with aggressive or acidic substances.

Examples of such substances are aggressive solvent-based cleaning and/or stain removers or natural cleaning agents that contain, for example, acids such as citric acid.

Therefore, to protect and care for your carpet and your home, we recommend using our “Corkando-Care”. It was specially developed from natural raw materials for the cleaning and care of cork products, wooden floors, laminate, tiles, etc.

Please understand that we cannot accept discoloration as a reason for return.

We are happy that you share our love of nature and thank you for your understanding and support!

Corkando-Protect - colorless impregnation with a strong beading effect against moisture absorption and dirt:

• Breathable, invisible, water and oil repellent
• Contamination is drastically reduced
• Preventive protection against green growth and as weather protection
• Penetrates deep into the fibers for long durability and high yield
• Water-based, free of silicone, wax and oil
• Tested for toy safety according to DIN EN 71-3, can be used indoors and outdoors without hesitation
• Ideal for our cork products

Our Corkando-Protect impregnation is a breathable, impalpable and invisible treatment that effectively repels water and oily dirt. It drastically reduces dirt absorption and improves the cleanability of the material.

Application:

• Existing environmental dirt should be removed before treatment.
• One-off application using our spray bottles.
• Rubber coatings and adjacent surfaces do not need to be covered.
• Dry after about an hour; Beading effect after just four hours.

Corkando-Protect works for several years, even if the beading effect diminishes due to abrasion on the surface. The beading effect can and should be refreshed with another application every year. The material consumption is significantly lower during the refresh than during the initial treatment.

We design your cork carpet or one of our other products according to your ideas. For example, in our configurator you can create your custom-made product to your desired size. But if your dream idea is perhaps a little crazier, we will find a solution here too!

For optical and material-specific reasons, we have placed a dividing seam from a width of 135cm, which is positioned in the middle over the length or width of your carpet. For more information , go to the gallery here.

Please allow 2 cm of air space. For example, if the carpet has to fit exactly between two pieces of furniture (kitchen block/kitchen unit), please allow some flexibility in the size.

The motifs are printed onto the surface using the latest technology. Using UV technology, the colors are completely cured and are also harmless. All of our printing inks have the Green Guard Gold certificate, which is also the highest certification in the printing sector.

No! The industry and companies that work with the raw material cork are heavily regulated and monitored by the responsible authorities. The misconception that there is a cork shortage was established a few years ago by the wine industry, as they replaced corks with metal or plastic closures through austerity measures and for cost reasons.

Cork is obtained from the bark of the cork oak (Quercus suber L). In Europe, cork oaks are found primarily in the Mediterranean regions such as Spain, Italy, France and especially in Portugal, where there are some of the largest cork oak forests.

The cork oak has many special properties that ultimately provide the consumer with a unique raw material. A single tree can produce 100 to 200 kilograms of cork during its life without having to be felled, because the cork oak is the only tree in the world whose bark can be harvested from the living trunk without it subsequently dying. The cork oak even benefits from regular harvesting: a cork oak harvested every nine to ten years becomes more resistant to fire, forms thicker layers of cork and can bind five times more CO2 in the bark than other trees.

In addition, the management of the cork oak forests is very sustainable overall, because the forests are not only a supplier of a particularly sustainable raw material, but they are also the habitat of some endangered animal and plant species. The sustainable management of the cork oak thus protects valuable habitats for flora and fauna.