Hello Group! Our Wicanders team has spent hours crawling the web
looking to bring relevant and interesting articles to you. We are
focusing today on an article from floorbiz.com
about another company’s cork floor product line. This article mentions
their Lifetime Warranty on all eco-friendly residential floors. Wow!
Lifetime!
We thought we’d better check it out. For the warranty to be honored,
the proper maintenance guidelines must be followed to a tee. These
maintenance procedures include an extensive refinishing
with an oil urethane rub throughout the entire floor area, a 6-8 hour
dry time and days before the floor can even be cleaned again with a dry
mop. On the flip side, Wicanders suggests using only a vacuum cleaner
and a mop during regular maintenance of our Cork Oak floors.
Checking a little deeper into the warranty we learn that they
guarantee the surface layer will not “wear throughâ€. Well, the term
“wear through†is defined as the 100% reduction of the surface wear
layer over an area comprising 10% the total area. 10% is not as good as
it sounds, as Wicanders warranty is half that at 5%. And of course
things like scratches, gouges, scuff marks, moisture, humidity, UV
light, roller skates, golf shoes and pets are not covered by their warranty. Really?
So from our perspective, what good is engineered flooring oak if you cannot
live with it? We know in most homes we all have more important things to
worry about then keeping up with the floor maintenance schedule. Most
of us have to worry about kids running up, running down, chasing pets, and trying their new skate grind down the banister. One key to a great product is durability and low maintenance. Now that we can all live with!