Is Reused Wood Flooring Required to be Certified?

Hi Nina,

I haven't had experience with this but I agree with your hunch that as long as your finishes/sealants meet the requirements, using a reclaimed wood is fine. I think the concern with wood is specifically with products that are engineered or treated. Hope that helps.

Hi Nina,

Yes, from my experience, reused wood flooring would be excluded. However, if there were any floor coatings, sealants, adhesives, etc. applied to the wood flooring on-site, those items would need to comply with the EQc4 requirements.

Lauren

Laure, Kate,

Would you know if I could make the same assumption for reused carpet? We are reusing all the exisiting carpet and the new sealants meet the VOC requirements. Assuming that the new carpet specified complies, could I achieve the credit IEQ 4.3? Also, what would happen in the case that no new carpet is specified, would we get the credit by default or would we not get any credit?
Thank you very much in advance for your help!
Alicia

Alicia,
Reused carpet would also be excluded but you cannot get the credit by default if you have no new carpet.

The credit is for all flooring systems, so as long as you have a flooring system that is installed (and not re-used) and it complies with the credit's requirements then that would be enough. For instance, if you had vinyl flooring that was FloorScore certified. However, if all of your flooring systems are reused materials then I do not think you could get the point.

Lauren

Lauren,

This is very useful. Thank you very much for the clarification.

Alicia

No prob!