Minimizing our environmental impact

Choosing to install a new floor is an important, long-term decision.  Beyond product selection and service, Alberta Hardwood Flooring recognizes that many of our customers are looking for environmentally responsible materials; materials that enhance the environment rather than detract or degrade it.

We’ve been working hard to provide these choices along with sound advice to ensure that you choose the right flooring to meet your needs, balanced with the needs of the environment. That's why we offer a comprehensive, selection of laminate, hardwood, cork and linoleum floating floors that are both design friendly and environmentally friendly.

  • Cork

    Cork floors are made from the bark of the Cork Oak tree. The bark is carefully harvested every nine years, and regrows. Harvesting the bark does not harm the Cork Oak. These trees, which are pivotal in preventing the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula from becoming a desert, live up to 200 years. Cork is made of 50% air and is a natural insulator – both thermal and acoustic. Cork is hypoallergenic, and naturally fire retardant.

  • Linoleum

    Linoleum floors are also made from natural, sustainable products. The main ingredients of linoleum are linseed oil (made from flax seed), wood flour, limestone, and natural rosins and pigments. Linoleum floors are naturally anti-microbial and anti-static.

  • Laminate

    Laminate floors are also engineered from natural products: wood fibre, paper and resin. There are no harmful formaldehyde emissions from our Laminates.

  • Hardwood

    With Engineered hardwood flooring, up to 30 times more flooring is produced from a single tree. Hardwood and the softwood veneer backing layer are sourced from managed forests. Mirage, our primary hardwood supplier, asks all its wood suppliers for written confirmation that the wood:

    • has been legally produced
    • is natural and has not been genetically modified
    • comes from well-managed forests that respect traditional and civil rights
    • additionally all wood waste generated when manufacturing Mirage floors is reused. Part of it is used to fuel the boilers that dry the wood. The rest is sold and transformed into logs and pellets for heating, wood fiber panels and agglomerated particles and farm animal bedding.

For Alberta Hardwood Flooring, environmental integrity means using our raw materials —wood— and other natural resources carefully and innovatively to safeguard our ecosystems.