Eco-friendly shop at home flooring/carpet/tile service in Maryland, NOVA, DC, Alexandria and Arlington

With LEED AP’s and a dedicated LEED GA on-staff, we are not your typical shop-at-home service. Of course we offer standard flooring products, but sustainability is a cornerstone of our business. Here are a few points:
– We are zero-landfill
   Everything in our waste stream is recycled or converted to energy.
– We have 4 LEED AP’s and 1 LEED GA of a staff of over 60.
   Chad Durbin, LEED GA, is our dedicated outside sustainable sales rep and he has the knowledge to guide you through the “greenwashed” landscape to the proper fit for your eco-friendly carpet, hardwood, laminate, tile or recycled rubber flooring project.
   Chris Moline, LEED AP, is our Residential Group Manager and has been responsible for launching the LEED-accreditation impetus company-wide. He has also dedicated a considerable percentage of our retail space to sustainable/green product offerings including Marmoleum, bamboo, reclaimed wood, undyed wools, oiled hardwoods, FSC-certified wood, cork flooring, sisal and coire rugs, and more.

Email for an appointment and we’ll narrow down the options and bring a selection to your home.

All the best,

Chris is our Residential Group Manager & a US Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional

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LEED Credits – MR4, MR6, MR7 and EQ4.4

The following can affect the above specs:

Mixed-sourcing;
Presence or absence of added urea-formaldehyde;
Recycled post-industrial content –
Recycled Wood – wood that is a by-product of other manufacturing processes, such as sawdust, veneer backer boards, and peeler cores, etc…
Reclaimed Wood – All manufactured wood products that are reused or remanufactured into new products. For example, Relaimed wood can be reused flooring or reclaimed from old construction – barns, textile mills, factories, beer casks, etc…

Final finish – low- or no-VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds); unfinished floors can also be site-finished with water-based top-coat urethane, or waxed/oiled, depending on final use.
Salvaged Industrial Forestry – percentages matter;
Rapidly-Renewable – Bamboo – It’s hard to beat a 5-year re-growth curve. Cork, as well, is rapidly renewable and does not kill the tree when harvested. Cork comes from the bark of the Cork Oak tree which grows on the Portuguese and Spanish coastlines. It’s harvested about every 7 – 9 years and one tree can be harvested over 20 times.
Non-wood – Bamboo, cork.
Salvaged Post-Agricultural – again, percentages of content apply;
Salvaged Logs – Waterway, Forest Deadwood, Urban Forest, Industrial Forest, Post-Agricultural.
Sustainable Forestry – Wood harvested from well-managed natural forests or plantations. FSC-Certified – either mixed sources or 100%.
Low-Energy – certain manufacturing facilities save energy various ways. The goal is to reduce their overall carbon footprint.

Consider, for example, LEED MR6. MR stands for Materials and Resources. This classification considers the following:
Use rapidly renewable materials and products for 2.5% of total value of all building materials and products used (based on cost)
Harvesting is to be within a 10-year cycle or shorter. For flooring, look into these:
bamboo flooring
wool
cork flooring
linoleum flooring

MR7
Use minimum of 50% of wood materials and products certified in accordance with FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Principles and Criteria for wood building components:
framing
flooring and sub-flooring
wood doors
etc.
Based on Cost of FSC wood products compared to total wood material cost.
Contractor doesn’t need the FSC number, but the supplier does.

As you can see, there is a wealth of information regarding LEED specs. We can help guide you to the proper flooring choice to maximize your LEED compliance, and minimize your carbon footprint!

Not ashamed to be a tree-hugger!

Chris

Chris Moline
Residential Group Manager
Commercial Carpets of America
Alexandria Carpet One
703-370-0000
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