What Do You Know About Cork Flooring?

Cork floors are waterproof, durable and they absorb sound—perfect for practically any room in the house.
What Do You Know About Cork Flooring?
This is the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine. Its cork flooring was installed in 1911. Tim Carter/TNS
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What I’m about to share with you might amaze you. We’ve all heard it said before that “you don’t know what you don’t know.” And when something that has been hidden suddenly comes into your understanding, we call it a “revelation.” That has happened to me numerous times during my life.

One odd example happened about 20 years ago. For decades, I had spent all my time in the United States. A business trip had me travel to Toronto. It’s a huge city, and while being driven to a television station, I looked at the traffic signals at a busy intersection. Much to my surprise there was no separate green light turn arrow. After several seconds, the green light began to flash. Instead of having an extra light, the clever Canadians told their drivers to turn against traffic when the light started to flash!

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Tim Carter is the founder of AsktheBuilder.com. He's an amateur radio operator and enjoys sending Morse code sitting at an actual telegrapher's desk. Carter lives in central New Hampshire with his wife, Kathy, and their dog, Willow. Subscribe to his FREE newsletter at AsktheBuilder.com. He now does livestreaming video M-F at 4 PM Eastern Time at youtube.com/askthebuilder. (C)2022 Tim Carter. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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