Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: carpets/env sensitivities

[BPaiss (BPaiss]

The best alternatives for carpeting is natural materials...wool, cotton,
jute, hemp...the recycled carpet offered locally from Planetary Solutions in
Boulder, supposedly off-gases less yet is still made of petrochemicals.  I
would suggest that for any synthetic carpet you put in you bake the space
(turn it up to 90 degrees for a few days with the windows open to force out a
lot of the off-gassing.  If you can afford it, at Nyland we offered wood
floors sealed with a waterbased finished.  Good luck.
Bill