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Terrible material. The locking joints pop, creak, and break as you walk on the floor, which means there is movement, and it takes very little movement to break the locking mechanism of this all too brittle material. You can try to patch or flatten the sub floor before the install, but that takes extra $, and you'll never achieve perfect flatness, so use a different product. NuCore comes apart. While I was installing a transition piece between a hallway and a bathroom, I broke 4 pieces to get the one piece installed. With other flooring that has some flex, that would have been no problem. NuCore is indeed very hard, but that means it is very brittle. Thinness is a brittle material's weakness. Do not buy NuCore.

I would love to hear from real life people who have installed Audra Max flooring. How has it held up for you? Scratching? Any issues with anyone who has asthma? Anyone have any real life pictures to share and if so can you share what pattern you have? Thank you so much for any insight!

I used to work for a cork flooring company for 6.5 years. Here is what I would tell you if you had called my shop and asked your questions. 1. Cork is DYNAMIC...it LOVES to change. And after that...it changes. And then...you guessed it it changes. 2. Cork will bounce back when hit hard. It can be PATCHED (the little chunk seen above in the photos from daisychain01). All you need is a spare bit of material, Elmer's Wood glue, and Exact-O knife and 30 minutes of patience. 3. Resealing is HIGHLY dependent on the MANUFACTURER'S requirements. Do NOT think you can reseal APC cork (polyacrylic finish = cheapest of the cheap) with anything but what the manufacturer recommends. 4. Cork floating floors (click-together planks/tiles) are welcome in a kitchen. You need to seal the floor AFTER install = a good 5 years worth of wear and tear. 5. Cork FADES! But the good news is it gets to a 'terminal' colour (Marilyn Monroe/Gwen Stefani Blonde) and then stays there. 6. I you are ANXIOUS about cork...don't use cork. Yes...if you were my customer and I heard your questions (and assuming I heard MORE anxiety while we talked...for 2 HOURS!!!!!), I would make a recommendation to look at other flooring. Only 1% of the word's floors are covered in cork (that includes the US Library of Congress, Gaudi's Cathedral in Barcelona and several football Stadiums in Portugal and Spain). Which means only 1% of the population can HANDLE (mentally...not physically) the changes cork goes through. I love the stuff. Given half the chance I would have every square foot (including my counter tops!!!) covered in the stuff. I would use a beautiful 8mm cork glue down tile in the bathrooms, a 1/4" glue down tile on the counters and then floating floors everywhere else! But I DO NOT CARE about how cork reacts. I am pretty low on the maintenance scale. Of my fellow "Type B" personalities I'm almost a "C" (minus)! That means I couldn't care one whit if my house looked like a palace or "lived in". Doesn't matter to me. And that is the type of personality that gets along the BEST with cork. And that's why only 1% of the population can "deal" with this product. I love cork! But I HATE IT when people bash it because it doesn't hold up to THEIR expectations of 'perfection'. Cork will NEVER be perfect. Even on 'Day 1'.