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Carter Carpets has been serving Michigan and Ohio's flooring needs for over 30 years.

Carter Carpets & Vinyl
Carpet, Hardwood, Laminate, Flooring Sales & Installation. Locally owned for 30+ years. Serving Monroe Country and Toledo area. Professional installation.

Years of Service

Searching for a trusted flooring store in Temperance with a proven track record? Carter Carpets & Vinyl has over 38 years of experience serving homeowners and businesses in Temperance, Michigan, and surrounding communities. Since 1987, we've built a reputation for reliable service, expert flooring advice, and quality installation. With nearly half of Monroe County companies closing within five years, our longevity shows we're here to stay-before, during, and after the sale.

Friendly Experts in Temperance

Whether you need a new area rugs or athletic surfaces or bathrooms, our knowledgeable and friendly flooring experts are here to help you find the perfect floor for your lifestyle, home decor, and budget. We will consider the area to be decorated, the type of traffic (Kids? Pets?), lighting, colors, and other factors to create a stunning decor. Come and visit our Temperance showroom at 8190 Lewis Avenue to see, touch and feel the latest styles!

Locally Owned and Operated

Carter Carpets & Vinyl is locally owned and operated. Therefore, when you choose them for all your flooring needs, you are supporting the communities in and around Temperance. Our staff offers local knowledge and experience not often found in the large national chain stores. Because we are locally-owned, we want to help you make the right product and installation decisions for your home or office and ensure your satisfaction for years to come.

Great Selection

Carter Carpets & Vinyl has a wide selection of the highest quality products, including: area rugs, athletic surfaces, bathrooms, carpeting, ceramic/porcelain, cleaning/care, countertop/surfaces, equipment, flooring accessories, installation materials, kitchen, laminate flooring, lvt/lvp, natural stone floors, specialty floors, tools, underlayment, vinyl/resilient, waterproof flooring, window treatment, wood flooring, that can put the perfect finishing touch on any room. Conveniently located in Temperance, Carter Carpets & Vinyl has an experienced and knowledgeable staff who will help you through every stage of selecting the right product for your home or office.

Some of the more popular brands we carry are: Interface® Resilient Flooring, Marazzi® USA Natural Stone, Aladdin Commercial Hard Surface, Teragren Bamboo Surfaces, Kathy Ireland™ Rugs, Shaw EverTouch Fiber, among others. Regardless of the brand you choose, Carter Carpets & Vinyl is dedicated to getting the job done right.

High-end flooring is made with greater care, finer materials and/or a greater emphasis on design. Treat your home to a little luxury with our beautiful designer flooring brands, including: Marazzi® USA Natural Stone, and other fine flooring.

Fast and Easy Financing

Looking for budget-friendly financing for your next home related purchase? It's easy. If you have a large purchase to make, Carter Carpets & Vinyl can assist you in finding financing solutions that can fit it into your budget. We have partnered with trusted financial institutions that can help you plan your purchases and manage your payments. Subject to credit approval. Minimum monthly payments required. See store for details.

12month/no interest

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Carpet, Hardwood, Laminate, Flooring Sales & Installation. Locally owned for 30+ years. Serving Monroe Country and Toledo area. Professional installation.
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Brands We Carry

Trusted Name, Proven Quality

Our selection of area rugs offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Karastan® Rugs

Nothing warms up a room like a beautiful area rug. Rugs can add a dramatic focal point or the subtle blending of color and pattern that pulls a room together. For centuries, the finest homes have been graced with magnificent rugs. And at Karastan, you'll find a complete range of looks, from contemporary textures to decorative designs to classics from the Golden Age of carpet weaving.

Mohawk Area Rugs

Mohawk's dedicated rug designers are constantly striving to bring you the latest in rug fashions. When choosing Mohawk Select, you not only have the brand name that you have grown to trust, you have the latest in style, color and great value as well.

Masland Rugs

The Masland rug facility manufactures all rug designs ensuring quality control and production.Today, Masland is recognized as the styling leader and producer of new original products for the marketplace. Masland products exemplify originality, innovative construction and color treatment as well as lasting beauty.

Kathy Ireland™ Rugs

Kathy Ireland's rugs are beautiful, durable, machine-crafted of plush 100% polypropylene in a Wilton woven construction inspired by her travels all over the world.

We offer a vast selection of carpet consisting of various textures, colors, and styles. With so many options, you are sure to find the right carpet to solidify your home's interior and reflect your personal tastes.

Kraus Carpet

The Kraus Group is one of the largest integrated carpet and flooring manufacturers and distributors in North America with facilities throughout Canada and the USA. Established in 1959, the Group has grown from a sole manufacturing facility to a multinational distributor servicing approximately 10,000 customers in both the residential and commercial flooring markets.

Southwind® Carpets

Southwind has maintained a sole focus on producing high quality, affordable broadloom carpeting, providing a complete range of residential and Main Street commercial carpets.

Milliken Commercial Carpet

Explore how Milliken Modular Carpet enhances design, functionality, and sustainability for architects, interior designers, and facility managers with innovative solutions.

Prestige Carpet Mills

We specialize in the creation of unique designs in Old-World weaving techniques and have gained a reputation for providing a class of carpets not previously available in the market. Our intimate relationships with a myriad of specialty mills around the world grant us exclusivity to many high-end niche products of various weaves, textures and constructions.

Mannington Commercial Carpet

Mannington commercial flooring has been recognized as a leader in product innovation, styling, and design, as well as in operational excellence and environmental stewardship. With industry-leading fiber systems and superior manufacturing, our vast array of carpet styles look better and last up to 75% longer than any other carpet in the marketplace.

Laura Ashley Carpets

Brintons latest collaboration with iconic brand Laura Ashley sees the launch of elegant new floor coverings that combine heritage with innovation. Taking inspiration from Laura Ashley’s extensive archive, the new collection boasts 12 new Axminster designs including soft blossoms, smart stripes, elegant scrolls, damask patterns and bold blooms alongside 4 new Bell Twist plains to complement them.

J+J Broadloom Flooring

Discover how J+J Broadloom Flooring’s innovative solutions enhance design and functionality for architects, interior designers, and facility managers, with a focus on aesthetics, sustainability, and durability.

ShawMark Carpet

ShawMark is sold exclusively through wholesale distributors throughout the country who sell the line to retailers. ShawMark features the "Anything Goes!" line of carpets, a high-performance collection noted for enduring extraordinary "torture tests."

Caress Carpet by Shaw

Caress is backed by Shaw Floors 20-year warranty with stairs included, offering lifetime stain & soil protection, including all pet stains. Caress has been reimagined to offer the best in style and design. All the softness you love...now in your carpet.

DH Floors Patterned Carpets

Dixie Home offers an array of high fashion, trendsetting,broadloom residential products. These highly differiential products use premium yarns and offer the consumer above average styles and performance.

Mohawk Carpet

More than anything, carpet manufacturers like Mohawk have your specific lifestyle in mind. That's why we innovated the softest, most family-friendly and pet-friendly carpets ever. Our carpet stands up to high-traffic wear and resists life's spills and stains like never before. With so many colors and textures to choose from, there's no reason to put off buying new carpet. With Mohawk, you're sure to find carpeting that suits both your lifestyle and your budget.

Rosecore™ Carpet

With a rich history of artisan craftsmanship and innovative design, Rosecore's exquisite floorcoverings enhance exclusive interiors around the world. Roscore produces a number of prominent Collections including Supreme Bliss from the Supreme Collection, which energizes any room with its elegant patina and palette of soft neutrals.

Shaw Carpet

Like you, Shaw Floors is passionate about creating beautiful homes founded on innovative design and lasting function. We know that a beautiful room doesn’t happen by accident. Shaw offers more than 25,000 carpet styles and colors. That means your ultimate carpet choices will always reflect your own, unique vision.

Masland Contract Carpet

At Masland Contract, we understand that true design requires a balance between the aesthetic and the practical. Our clear insight into the designer's perspective is one reason Masland Contract is a highly respected leader in the industry. Our creativity finds expression in products of extraordinary quality and superb craftsmanship.

Joy Commercial Carpets

Joy Carpets manufactures teaching, games, and specialty rugs and carpet for children and adults for schools, homes, businesses and hospitality. Sports rugs and fluorescents also. When you want the seamless look of broadloom but the convenience and durability of carpet tile, look no further than Joy Carpets.

Kraus Contract Carpet

As Canada's largest carpet manufacturer, Kraus operates on a global scale. Sister company Strudex Fibres manufacturers continuous filament yarns for Kraus' worldwide plants. Kraus serves the North American market from its main facility in Waterloo, Ontario as well as Barrett Carpet Mills in Dalton, Georgia, U.S.A.

Mohawk Commercial Flooring

Believe in Better. It’s Mohawk Commercial Flooring's commitment and relationship to our customers. Our entire company is designed to support you at every step of your journey. Learn more about Mohawk Group. Karastan, Durkan, Mohawk

Queen Carpet

Queen Carpets has been transforming homes for more than thirty years.

Masland Carpet

Masland Carpets and Rugs was founded in Pennsylvania in 1866 and still today boasts of its heritage as the leading carpet manufacturer in the United States. Since 1866, Masland has insisted that its carpets and rugs maintain the highest quality. The tradition of manufacturing quality products has been practiced for over 140 years and continues to be practiced today.

Interface® Carpet Tile

Interface Flooring Systems invented free-lay carpet tile more than 25 years ago. Back then, the idea was to hide the seams and to create a monolithic, broadloom-like surface. We still do that. Better than anyone, in fact. Which is why Interface is the world's leading commercial carpet tile brand. But today we're taking modular carpet further, with new styles that celebrate each tile as a design element, allowing the creation of richly detailed, large-scale patterns that are nothing short of stunning.

Kane Carpet

We proudly offer a wide array of carpet styles and patterns that will delight the mid to high-end client at the most competitive prices. With an extensive collection of traditional and contemporary in-stock woven patterns and a complete, low minimum yardage custom weaving program, Kane Carpet is the best choice.

Hagaman Carpet

Hagaman broadloom carpet collections offer distinctive designer styling, and luxurious constructions at remarkably affordable price points. We achieve this innovative combination of fashion and value by our quality craftsmanship. Hagaman offers fine style and craftsmanship in woolen carpet, at a price you can afford.

Flagship Carpets

Flagship Carpets has made carpets and rugs for over 40 years. Blacklight carpet, glow carpet, theater carpet, bowling carpet, skating carpet, and more. We maintain the most innovative and flexible carpet printing machinery in the world and provide the customers with the industries' most crisp, vibrant, and clear carpet images.

Fabrica Carpet

Fulfilling the promise of our corporate mission of “Quality without Compromise” Fabrica manufactures carpets for the most demanding segments of the high-end style residential market. Our distinctive broadloom carpet has earned Fabrica an international reputation for exquisite style and exceptional performance.

Crossley Axminster

Crossley Axminster is a high energy company based in Greenville, MS. Established to bring a fresh approach to servicing the American hospitality market, we combine the unique creativities of our designers with excellent customer service, providing a premier experience for our clients.

Hibernia Wool Carpets

Hibernia Woolen Mills, where traditional styling, a dedication to quality, and outstanding customer service all combine to define us as a premier supplier of superior wool carpets for high end designers and consumers.

Patcraft Commercial Carpet

Patcraft is recognized throughout the carpet industry as aleader in innovative design with a tradtion of integrity and superior service for more than 50 years. We design flooring for the human experience. Creating spaces for people with purpose, imagination + intention. Transforming space for positive impact.

Philadelphia™ Commercial Carpet

Philadelphia Carpets is Shaw's oldest and broadest product line. Philadelphia offers a broad selection of carpets designed for today's busy lifestyles that are both beautiful and affordable.

Rodeo Carpet Mills

Rodeo Collection is dedicated to delivering only the finest quality commercial and residential wool and wool blend carpet. We match colors, make precise strike offs, and offer extensive custom design services, to take the hassle out of your project.

Our selection of ceramic tile flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Mohawk Ceramic Tile

Mohawk Ceramic offers a broad array of products in all major product types: floor tile, wall tile, mosaics and decorative tiles.

Marazzi® USA Tile

Marazzi USA plays a key role within the strong global presence of Marazzi Group by decisively meeting the tile needs of the North American market.Manufacture and sourcing of a vast array of products – porcelains, glazed ceramics, glass mosaics, metallics – brings a total tile package that addresses aesthetic and performance requirements of designers, architects and homeowners.

InterCeramic® USA Tile

Interceramic, a top manufacturer and distributor of ceramic tile and natural stone in North America was founded in 1979 by Oscar Almeida, his family and partners. Today, Oscar’s son, Victor Almeida is the chairman and the Chief Executive Officer operating all Interceramic business in Canada, United States, Mexico, Central America, and China. During the first two years of business, Internacional de Cerámica produced 13 million square feet of ceramic floor tile. Today, we are capable of producing 500 million square feet of ceramic floor and wall tile in our Mexican and U.S. operations.

Crossville Porcelain Tile

As the first tile manufacturer in Tennessee (est. 1986), Crossville is the leading American manufacturer of beautiful, sustainable solutions that advance the frontiers of tile design. From introducing the nation’s first large-format porcelain tiles, to becoming the first and only net consumer of tile waste materials (meaning we recycle even more than we produce), to developing cutting-edge performance innovations that turn mere surfaces into “breathing” living environments—we are committed to pioneering products and practices that change the way the world views tile.

LAUFEN Tile

Laufen offers quality floor, wall and decorative tile throughout the U.S. market. With its expansive ceramic tile offering, Laufen continues to bring together its heritage of beautiful styling with its reputation for quality craftsmanship.

Florida Tile

Florida Tile products are one of the greatest values in the industry. Our reputation is built on providing reasonably priced, design rich products to the tile market. Florida Tile products come directly from the earth. Because of this, we are particularly aware of our responsibility to help preserve the beauty and health of our planet and all its natural resources.

Genesee Ceramic Tile

Genesee Ceramic Tile-Ceramic, Marble, Granite, Porcelain, and Natural Stone

Olympia Tile

Ceramic Tile, Porcelain Tile, Marble, Granite, Natural Stone and More!

Aqua Mix Tile & Stone Care

Your Solution! Care & Maintenance Products for Tile, Stone, Grout & Masonry

Leggett & Platt Cushion

We have the right cushion for every type of carpet, installation and customer. The proper Leggett & Platt cushion will always make carpet feel better underfoot, reduce fatigue, wear longer and retain its original beauty.

Tred-MOR Carpet Cushion

A Premium commercial carpet cushion. Tred-MOR is synonymous with Dubl-Stik. Tred-MOR Flat profile rubber cushion is a remarkable engineering accomplishment. Unlike any other cushion,Tred-Mor supports, protects, and improves carpet performance while delivering "lively" underfoot comfort. Throughout the world, fine hotels, restaurants, resorts, schools, retail, recreation, industrial, financial, medical and office facilities depend on Tred-MOR rubber cushion state-of-the-art engineering excellence.

Healthier Choice Carpet Cushion®

Our more environmentally friendly & functional mechanically frothed high density cushion products help create a more environmentally friendly indoor living environment.

The basic fibers that are used to manufacture carpets today are Nylon, Polyester, PTT, Polypropylene. Each has unique qualities and strengths. Your choice depends upon the characteristics that are most important to your home.

Shaw EverTouch Fiber

This new generation of ultra-soft carpeting is gaining popularity across the country.

Mohawk SmartStrand Carpet

There’s good reason why Mohawk has been a trusted name in carpets for over a century; good reason why, today, we are the leading flooring producer and distributor worldwide. In a word, innovator.

We are your source for flooring tools & installation supplies for carpet, tile & wood floors.

Henry® Adhesives

HENRY is committed to helping you get the best results in professionally installed floors. 60 years of experience combined with our relationships with the leading resilient, wood and carpet manufacturers ensure that you receive the products and the support you need to complete the job successfully and profitably.

LATICRETE®

Laticrete International is a world wide manufacturer and marketer of materials and methods for the installation of ceramic tile and stone.

MAPEI Flooring Adhesives

Several decades ago a young businessman, Rodolfo Squinzi, set out to carve his niche in the building industry and founded MAPEI as a small family business in Milan, Italy.

Our selection of laminate flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Mannington Charter Collection™

Mannington laminate offers the most realistic wood and tile looks. Our laminate flooring is one of the most durable and environmentally friendly floors you can buy. And Mannington laminate offers all that...and more. Made from over 70% recycled content, using low-VOC inks and adhesives, Mannington laminate is FloorScore certified, ensuring good indoor air quality for your home.

Tarkett Home Laminate Flooring

Tarkett laminate flooring let you beautify your home with the best of all worlds; choose from the warm, natural look of North American hardwoods or the handcrafted look of ceramics, all with the easy maintenance of a tough finish.

Quick•Step Laminate Flooring

Quick-Step flooring has earned the prestigious FloorScore certification for indoor air quality by passing the most stringent tests in the world. All Quick-Step products are officially FloorScore certified, giving families living on our flooring peace of mind that they are bringing a product into their home that meets strict indoor air quality standards.

Swiss Krono

The SWISS KRONO GROUP has its origins in a company founded in Menznau, Switzerland, in 1966.

Mohawk RevWood Laminate

Mohawk Laminate Flooring is designed for today's lifestyles. Beautiful Decorator Patterns; Installs Anywhere in the Home, Extremely Tough - the CrystalShield™ Finish is a rugged performer.

Explore why Luxury Vinyl Flooring is the top choice for interior designers. Learn how it balances style, durability, and practicality to enhance any space.

NAFCO Luxury Tile

Tarkett was founded over 130 years ago and is now the largest resilient manufacturer in the world with over 28 production centers in more than 100 countries. In North America, Tarkett owns and operates nine manufacturing units that support a distribution network extending across the United States and Canada. Its comprehensive product lines are renowned in the industry for their high quality, diversity and innovation.

Congoleum® DuraCeramic

New DuraCeramic is warmer to the touch, more comfortable underfoot,

NovaCore™

NovaCore™ is our HPC (High Performance Core) engineered luxury vinyl plank that installs easily and securely with our NovaClic® Fd locking system. The core is waterproof and rigid, which means you can install NovaCore almost anywhere.

Aladdin Commercial Hard Surface

rom innovative design trends in LVT and resilient sheet products, Aladdin Commercial leads the industry as the preferred choice for commercial hard surface flooring. Is your project on a tight timeline? Our Quick Ship program delivers flooring in 10 business days or less.

Natural stone has been popular for use on floors for centuries and for very good reason. Stone tile brings the colors and texture of nature to our homes and adds a quality and warmth to a room that's not possible with any other material.

There are four important factors to look for in high-traffic commercial installations: durability, ease of maintenance, appearance, and cost. Each factors comes with its own benefits and issues. Let us help you explore all the factors for your project!

VPI Resilient Flooring

VPI ESD control tile is ideal for application in the Electronics, Healthcare, and Telecommunication industries, just to name a few. We invented solid vinyl ESD tile 50 years ago; in fact, installations of our tile are still performing to specification after 50 years in use!

Our selection of vinyl sheet flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Tarkett Commercial Resilient Flooring

Welcome to everyday. That wonderful series of day-to-day moments strung together where real life happens. And they can sometimes be kind of messy. Like crafty-pasty-paper mache day. And dining-room-hockey-practice day. And let’s-make-a-tent-in-the-living-room day. It’s for those very real reasons that we created Tarkett® Vinyl Sheet Flooring that wears not tears. That cleans up easily. That stands up to everyday life and looks good doing it. Real floors for real life.

Congoleum® Vinyl Flooring

For generations Congoleum flooring products have been an important part of America's homes.

Johnsonite® Commerical Flooring

Discover Johnsonite® Commercial Flooring's innovative solutions for architects, designers, and facility managers. Learn how their sustainable and versatile flooring enhances commercial spaces' aesthetics and functionality.

Interface® Resilient Flooring

With a monolithic design aesthetic and color options that support wellness, our high-performance vinyl sheet provides durability and long-lasting beauty with minimal flooring seams. And it's designed to work with our nora® rubber, LVT, and carpet tile for more design flexbility across any space at any budget.

IVC Vinyl Flooring

In the ultramodern factory IVC produces a full range of cushioned vinyl products in a very cost-effective way: from price-conscious promotion articles to high-quality products. From magnificent wood imitations to attractive and fashionable colour ranges.

Waterproof flooring mimics the look of natural products like wood or stone and provides a wide array of decors that can be installed most anywhere. It rigid core can be installed in traditionally wet areas like baths, kitchens, family, and dining areas.

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Window treatments not only contribute to the energy efficiency of your home, they enhance the aesthetics of the window and room. The right blinds, shades or shutters can provide privacy, control light and spruce up a room.

Our selection of wood flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Shaw Hardwoods Flooring

Shaw Hardwood Flooring offers consumers the timeless tradition of hardwood flooring with a wide variety of species, colors, and sizes. Shaw hardwood flooring brings Beauty and Strength to Any Room. See our Collection of Wood Flooring Stains and Grains.

Somerset Hardwood Flooring

Somerset Wood Products is one of the largest manufacturers of Appalachian lumber and flooring in the midwest. Our corporate headquarters is located in Somerset, KY. We have two supporting production facilities, also located in the Somerset area, with a staff of over 300 employees. We also employ a full time forester, to oversee responsible forestry management practices that exceed Best Management Practice standards.

Mohawk Hardwood Flooring

Mohawk Hardwood Floors offers handcrafted beauty and exceptional quality by using the finest hardwoods and the exclusive CrystalShield™ finish. Available as Solid Wood Floors or Engineered Wood Floors.

Lauzon Hardwood Flooring

For 30 years we have dedicated ourselves to marrying the artistry of finely crafted wood with the science of producing resilient, naturally comfortable and – equally important – comforting floors. We don’t cut corners. Because we know that for our customers, their homes are more than an investment, they are privileged spaces of repose, comfort and beauty. You wouldn’t skimp on the surfaces that carry you through life. You want them to be beautiful, practical and healthful. We are committed to meeting, even surpassing your expectations.

Casabella® Hardwood Flooring

The luxurious, regal look of Hardwood Flooring is timeless. And the Casabella collection of Hardwood flooring from around the world can satisfy the most discriminating tastes as well as the most vivid imagination. Species include Oak, Maple, Cherry, Birch, Asian Walnut, Hickory and more. Most are available with traditional or hand scraped visuals and in solid, engineered or locking constructions so that you can enjoy them in almost any room in your home.

Kährs Hardwood Flooring

Kahrs Hardwood Flooring - Do you need a thin wood floor? Are you looking for the warmth of real wood at a great value? Then Linnea may be the correct solution.

Zickgraf Hardwood Flooring

Zickgraf invested years of research and development to create a finish system that assures the floor you install today will still look like new tomorrow. At the heart of this comprehensive multi-step finish system is the Diamondized wear-layer. This unique formulation creates a state-of-the-art wear-layer that provides lasting durability against traffic, wear, soil and stains. applications.

Hartco® Wood Flooring

Hartco Quality Wood Flooring, among the top flooring brands in the world, has a reputation among commercial designers for design freedom. Hartco's range and flexibility also satisfies a yearning for a highly personal, custom style in the home. Hartco patterns and contrasts help define interiors, from traditional to the avant-garde.

Robbins Hardwood Flooring

Enjoy the beauty of natural oak and maple flooring all through your home.

Triangulo Exotic Hardwood Flooring

Triangulo Exotic Hardwoods utilizes the highest quality engineering process in the industry.

Vintage Prefinished Hardwood Flooring

Vintage ensures manufacturing is in compliance with all applicable laws to minimize the harmful effects of manufacturing on the environment. All Vintage finishes are 99% VOC and formaldehyde free.

QU-Cork Flooring

You can now have the beauty and durability of nature with out cutting down trees. Cork is the truly renewable flooring option utilizing only the bark of the Cork Tree which can be harvested every nine years.

WECork Flooring

Representing the fifth generation in the cork industry, WE Cork offers the highest level of experience and quality in natural cork flooring, sound control under hardsurface flooring, crack isolation under tile, expansion joints, bulletin board cork, anti-vibration cork, insulation cork, Decoy block cork, and wall covering.