Eco-Friendly Concrete Floor

2018-12-11

Concrete is becoming one of the most environmentally friendly building materials. As we all know, concrete is primarily made from cement mixed with aggregates and water. They are easily made from a large number of natural materials which can help to reduce waste, save energy and improve air quality.      

Concrete floor is durable and can last a lifetime for proper maintenance, and will outlive any other floor that you may consider installing. That means that a concrete floor almost never has to be replaced, saving the waste of materials, resources, and energy that would be put into manufacturing new flooring covers.

When a concrete floor is destroyed, the resultant pieces do not necessarily have to go to a landfill. They can be recycled. Smaller pieces can be reused in residential construction products or as the sub-base for gravel roads. Larger pieces can be used to help combat the erosion of shores.  

You can also add a variety of recycled materials into concrete, such as glass, shell, or other small recycled knick-knacks, which will create a floor that has a distinctly quirky personality.

Concrete is a great conductor of heat, so it gets hot, and cold, very fast when exposed to different levels of thermal energy. The heat can disperse quickly, and the concrete is generally cold. So this can be a great benefit in the summer, by making your home naturally feel cooler. At the same time, you can use the conductive properties of a concrete floor in order to support a passive solar heating strategy, which will heat the concrete, making it warm and cozy all winter. Another temperature control option is that to install a radiant heating system in the concrete floor. This will cause waves of warmth to spread throughout the material and then rising naturally into the air to heat the room. In most cases, radiant heating is both more energy efficient, and better for the air quality of a room, than ventilation based systems.

In the end, unlike carpet and many other staticky materials, concrete does not naturally retain dust, debris, or small dirt particles. You needn’t to worry about harmful dust blowing into the air.

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