The specification
The floor is part of the brief, or it isn't.
Hotels, restaurants, healthcare spaces, offices. The specifier who recommends the wrong floor answers for it for years. Cork gives you acoustic performance, thermal comfort, and a material provenance you can put in a document and defend.
Sound
A floor that quiets a room
A hotel corridor at 2am. A restaurant at full cover. A yoga studio mid-session. A music rehearsal room with hard walls. In every one of those spaces, the floor is either working with you or against you.
Cork absorbs impact sound by up to 19dB. Footsteps do not carry between floors. Chairs do not scrape. Ambient noise does not stack. The room stays calmer because the surface beneath it is doing something most floors cannot.
For hotels, that is the difference between a guest who sleeps and a guest who complains. For restaurants, it is the difference between atmosphere and noise. For offices and studios, it is the reason the room works at all.
Warmth
Warmer rooms. Lower bills.
Cork is a natural thermal insulator. It does not conduct cold the way stone, tile, or engineered wood does. It retains warmth and returns it underfoot.
For a hotel, that means a guest stepping out of bed onto a floor that does not shock them. A room that feels cared for before a single word is spoken. For a yoga studio, a surface that stays at body temperature. For any space with underfloor heating, cork stays warm underfoot up to 28°C surface temperature, even between heating cycles.
Cork does not just feel warmer. It performs warmer.
Certifications
Independently certified
GREENGUARD Gold certified
Certified low chemical emissions. Suitable for schools, healthcare, and sensitive environments.
Cork Mark certified
Industry certification for authentic cork products meeting quality and sustainability standards.
Microban antimicrobial protection
Built-in antimicrobial protection that works continuously to keep surfaces cleaner between cleans.
Material provenance
In writing. On every sheet.
Our floors are manufactured by Granorte in Portugal from FSC-certified cork. The bark is harvested by stripping it from living trees. The tree is not cut down. It regrows. The same tree can be harvested for over a hundred years.
For a project with a sustainability position, that story is available in full with the certifications to back it. GREENGUARD Gold. Cork Mark. Microban. Every floor we specify comes with documentation.
Cork does not just look considered. It is considered.
The material
Grown once. Harvested forever.
Cork oak bark is stripped by hand, every nine years, without cutting the tree. The same tree can be harvested for over a hundred years. The bark regrows. The forest remains.
Every square metre of Natrul flooring begins in the forests of Portugal. It arrives in your project with a material story that no synthetic floor can match.
Specified for
Spaces that demand more.
- Hotels
- Wellness studios
- Yoga and Pilates studios
- Offices
- Restaurants
- Boutique retail
- Healthcare environments
- Education spaces
The specification difference
Thirty years. Hundreds of projects.
Steven Myers has spent thirty years in contract flooring, specifying, planning and overseeing projects from brief to completion. When you bring Natrul into a project, that experience comes with it.
The spaces we inhabit influence how we feel. What surrounds us every day deserves the same consideration as every other choice we make about how we live.
Steven Myers, Founder
What we provide
- Specification support
Support throughout the selection process, helping ensure the chosen floor aligns with the aesthetic, performance and practical requirements of the project. - Product samples and technical documentation
Supporting presentations, design approvals and project sign off with confidence. - Project guidance
Advice informed by subfloor conditions, installation requirements and intended use, helping avoid costly issues later in the process. - Contract installation
Working alongside trusted flooring professionals and specialist contractors, we can coordinate installation from specification through to final handover, providing a single point of contact throughout the project and helping ensure the floor specified is the floor successfully delivered.
The spaces we inhabit influence how we feel. What surrounds us every day deserves the same consideration as every other choice we make about how we live.
Steven Myers, Founder