Beyond Green Flooring:
What's in Flooring Adhesives?

Is your flooring still “green” if you install it with a less-than-green adhesive? Many flooring products, from linoleum to cork to bamboo to carpet tile, have long burnished their green credentials, while flooring adhesives remained an afterthought left to the contractor. When Healthy Building Network (HBN) began reviewing flooring adhesives for the Pharos Project, EBN and GreenSpec formed a tag-team, seeking out adhesives that could meet our high standards for environmental and human health. While so far we’ve just scratched the surface, we have several recommendations for finding greener options and will be working with HBN to review the best of the products they find.

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