About Eco-Friendly Wood Flooring What is Eco-Friendly Wood?
Wood can be a sustainable resource if it is sourced and produced responsibly. Eco-friendly wood can come from salvaged, reclaimed, and recycled sources or well-managed forests and plantations. Reclaimed wood refers to reusing wood products or logs rescued from various sources like old barns, abandoned warehouses, and thinned forests for fire prevention.
Eco-friendly wood does not come from clear-cutting or forests in which "high conservation values" are threatened. Clear-cutting exposes vast areas to insect infestations, disease, and mudslides. Plus, the lack of trees harms climate change due to increased carbon. Selective sustainable wood harvesting protects the soil and the forest's balanced ecosystem.
It Protects Our Health
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can become a gas at room temperature, affecting interior air quality and having dangerous long-term health risks. One of the most common and hazardous VOCs is formaldehyde, which is used as an adhesive bonding agent in many commercial, engineered wood floors.
Building materials that contain high levels of formaldehyde are a significant concern because they off-gas into building interiors and negatively affect interior air quality long after the products are installed.
If you choose our unfinished or prefinished engineered wood flooring, you can rest assured that our adhesives are formaldehyde-free, and the plywood used for the core is CARB Phase 2 compliant, making them no VOC.
All of our Eco-Friendly Wood Flooring is:
Non-toxic
Zero VOC
Formaldehyde-free
Environmentally-friendly
Promoting healthy, indoor air quality
Either sustainably harvested, recycled, reclaimed or FSC® certified
What is FSC?
FSC® stands for the Forest Stewardship Council®. FSC is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization established to promote the responsible management of the world's forests. An FSC certification is the best indicator that the wood used to make your flooring was harvested sustainably and responsibly.
All of the wood at Black's Farmwood meets or exceeds these requirements.
You can feel good about choosing any of our products!
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