CORKLINE®

Key Features of Corkline

CORKLINE® is a high-quality, technologically advanced material that combines the best properties of natural cork and special rubber–polymer binders. By merging these components, the result is an extremely durable, stable, and visually appealing deck covering, ideal for both exterior and interior decks of almost all recreational vessels.

Thanks to its excellent resistance to moisture and wear, CORKLINE® is equally effective in other moisture-exposed areas such as pools, terraces, wellness zones, bathrooms, and similar demanding surfaces.

CORKLINE® provides long-lasting performance, is easy to maintain, exceptionally safe for walking, and thermally stable, making it one of the most reliable solutions for moisture-exposed surfaces.

CORKLINE® is also an eco-friendly product, thanks to its high percentage of natural cork, making it a sustainable choice for modern nautical applications and architecture.

Why Corkline®?

  • Natural material with an attractive, decorative appearance
  • Excellent resistance to weather conditions, UV radiation, and seawater
  • High resistance to mechanical damage, wear, scratches, and stains
  • Thermal stability – comfortable to walk on even at high temperatures
  • Elastic and non-slip – safe in both dry and wet conditions
  • Easy cleaning and maintenance with standard cleaning agents
  • No need for expensive or complicated annual refinishing or varnishing
  • Simple installation, including the possibility of DIY (Do-It-Yourself) application

Corkline® Products

CORKLINE® is available in three variations: as pre-made planks, in rolls (grooved or non-grooved), and as custom-made sections designed to fit your exact dimensions. Custom manufacturing ensures perfect adaptation to all shapes, curves, and geometries—an essential feature for complex boat decks and design-driven projects that require maximum precision and visual consistency.

 

  • CORKLINE® Planks

  • CORKLINE® Rolls

  • CORKLINE® Custom-Made

CORKLINE® planks

CORKLINE® rolls

CORKLINE® Custom-Made

Corkline® planks

CORKLINE® deck covering is also available as precisely manufactured planks, providing a classic and elegant deck appearance with maximum flexibility during installation. Planks are ideal for projects that emphasize visual structure, clean seams, and precise finishing lines. With their dimensional stability and strong resistance to moisture and UV radiation, CORKLINE® planks maintain their shape, color, and performance over many years.

The CORKLINE® 25TG model is supplied in a practical box containing 20 planks, each produced according to the following specifications:

  • Thickness: 5 mm

  • Width: 50 mm

  • Length: 1000 mm

These dimensions allow easy adaptation to straight, curved, and technically complex deck areas or other moisture-exposed surfaces.

All CORKLINE® planks are made from high-quality natural cork combined with technical rubber granules, ensuring outstanding stability, wear resistance, elasticity, walking comfort, and non-slip qualities—even when wet.

For professional installation, CORKLINE® planks require specific auxiliary materials such as primer, adhesive, and joint sealant. Although not included in the standard packaging, all required materials can be ordered separately and delivered together with the CORKLINE® product.

Corkline Rolls®

CORKLINE® deck coverings are also available in rolls, an extremely practical solution for covering large, flat, or gently curved surfaces. Rolls allow fast installation with minimal seams, resulting in a clean, uniform, and visually seamless appearance. Thanks to their flexibility, CORKLINE® rolls are suitable for decks, terraces, pool areas, and other moisture-exposed surfaces.

CORKLINE® rolls come in different thicknesses and finishes—grooved and non-grooved—allowing customers to select the option that best fits their technical and aesthetic needs.

Roll Dimensions and Models

CORKLINE® P5 & PF5 (5 mm)

Rolls with a 5 mm thickness, 490 mm width, and 13,000 mm length available in:

  • P5 – non-grooved roll

  • PF5 – grooved roll

These rolls are ideal for surfaces requiring a thin, elegant profile while maintaining high levels of durability, elasticity, and non-slip performance.

CORKLINE® P8 & PF8 (8 mm)

Rolls with an 8 mm thickness, 490 mm width, and 8,000 mm length available in:

  • P8 – non-grooved roll

  • PF8 – grooved roll

The thicker variants are especially suitable for areas exposed to heavier mechanical loads, long-term moisture, or impact—such as working decks, docks, larger terraces, or high-traffic areas on vessels.

Material Composition and Quality

All CORKLINE® rolls are produced from high-quality natural cork blended with technical rubber granules to achieve the optimal combination of:

  • elasticity

  • non-slip performance

  • resistance to moisture, salt, and UV radiation

  • long-term mechanical durability

  • thermal stability

  • easy maintenance

This composition makes CORKLINE® one of the most reliable and functional materials for surfaces exposed to moisture and temperature fluctuations.

CORKLINE® Custom-Made

CORKLINE® is also available as fully customized sections, manufactured precisely according to the dimensions of your vessel or space—offering the most accurate and visually refined installation method.

Custom manufacturing ensures perfect adaptation to all shapes, curves, finishing lines, and technically demanding geometries, which is essential for complex decks, modern design projects, and installations requiring maximum visual and functional harmony.

This approach enables a clean, seamless, and precise finish, significantly enhancing the overall appearance and perceived value of the space.

In addition, custom-made CORKLINE® offers complete personalization options, including:

  • tailor-made patterns that match your vessel or interior design

  • integrated logos for branding boats, companies, or charter fleets

  • aesthetic motifs that blend with the style of the interior or exterior

Personalized CORKLINE® surfaces are ideal for branding, upgrading the overall appearance, creating unique deck aesthetics, or highlighting the identity of a vessel.

By combining custom manufacturing precision with the possibility of design personalization, CORKLINE® delivers a solution that unites top-level functionality, safety, comfort, and exceptional visual appeal — all fully tailored to your needs.

Corkline® dimensions

Corkline slats:
Item Dimension Packaging MJ
CORKLINE® 25TG 5 x 50 x 1000 mm 1 m2/box box
Corkline strips:
Item Dimension Packaging MJ
CORKLINE® L5 5 x 70 x 13000 mm 9.1 m2/pak m2
CORKLINE® L8 8 x 70 x 8000 mm 5.6 m2/pak m2
Corkline® rolls grouting and with joints unfunded:
Item Dimension Packaging MJ
CORKLINE® P5 5 x 490 x 13000 mm 6.37 m2/pak m2
CORKLINE® PF5 5 x 490 x 13000 mm 6.37 m2/pak m2
CORKLINE® P8 8 x 490 x 8000 mm 3.92 m2/pak m2
CORKLINE® PF8 8 x 490 x 8000 mm 3.92 m2/pak m2

CORKLINE – General care and maintenance

One of the many advantages in choosing a CORKLINE® floor covering for decks lies in easy maintenance. Since CORKLINE® is a floor covering made of natural material (cork) combined with rubber granules connected by special bindings, it does not require complicated maintenance. Below we offer some tips that will help you keep the look of your new CORKLINE® deck in excellent condition for many years..

Things we recommend

Clean the deck lined with CORKLINE® floor covering with water, natural soap and pH neutral maintenance agents that you use in the household. For cleaning use a mop with suitable inserts (finer or coarser depending on the degree of contamination).

The best time to thoroughly clean the deck is after sailing. Minor impurities resulting from the shedding of various liquids, we recommend to clean immediately. In case you have spilled wine, oil or other liquid on the floor, immediately remove it with a dry cloth and rinse with water. If necessary, use a mild detergent for cleaning.

To remove stubborn impurities, use a mop with suitable inserts, an ordinary scrubbing brush, a pH neutral detergent and water. Stubborn stains and/or mild mechanical damage from the dry surface can be removed with high granulation sandpaper. Grinding gently over the surface of the floor covering to avoid the formation of bumps on the surface of it. This is a very effective procedure that will help keep your floor clean for a long time.

Things we don't recommend

As with all other decking surfaces, we recommend wearing appropriate footwear. Avoid shedding aggressive liquids (such as oils, varnishes, thinners, paints and the like) that can cause surface damage to the floor covering. In case the shedding of them does occur, we recommend that you remove them without delay, and rinse the surface with water if necessary. Prevent the formation of traces from dents from heavy furniture. Wherever possible, line the legs of furniture with pads. Never drag heavy objects on the surface of your floor. Such procedures can leave permanent marks and scratches on the surface of your floor.

Although the CORKLINE® floor covering is self-extinguishable and flame-resistant, we do not recommend putting hot metals or other hot objects on it. Prolonged exposure of the surface to high temperature can locally cause a change in the color of the surface and the formation of traces.

CORKLINE – INSTALLATION

1. Prepare background

Before installing the CORKLINE® floor covering, the base (deck) should be carefully cleaned. Cleaning implies the removal of coarse impurities by thoroughly vacuuming the surface. After that, it is necessary to clean the substrate with acetone or some other means to remove fats and similar impurities. This is a prerequisite for a quality and solid connection between the CORKLINE® floor covering and the base. Removal of impurities should be carried out carefully so as not to damage the substrate. Before installing the CORKLINE® floor covering, the base must be clean, flat and dry. It is possible to cover the minor damage and rough texture of the base with a floor covering with a slightly higher consumption of glue.

2. Marking

If it is a complex form of the base, before gluing the CORKLINE® floor covering, we recommend creating a laying scheme on the base (deck), that is, drawing out the contours according to which the floor covering will be installed. When creating details and complex geometric shapes, we recommend making a paper stencil according to which the floor covering will be cut.

3. Cutting

Cutting the slats to the necessary dimensions is carried out with a scalpel to the pre-drawn lines, a vertical cut in two or three notches.

IMPORTANT: When working, be sure to take all precautions. We recommend using protective gloves and using a professional scalpel!!! To ensure a precise joint with adjacent slats, the edges must be sharp and cut off at right angles, which after cutting is achieved with sandpaper processing (we recommend granulation 60-100). Immediately before applying the glue, we recommend that you arrange the CORKLINE® cut slats according to the drawn scheme and thus perform a dimension check.

4. Cutting out joints

In places where there is no original joint (for example, on the composition of edge elements, angle elements, etc.) it is possible to make it by hand. Parallel to the edge of the board (slats) draw a line 4 mm away from the edge (width of the joint). According to the drawn line, with one to two strokes with a scalpel, make a vertical cut to the board up to half the thickness of the material. After that, carefully make the second cut perpendicular to the previous one (on the side of the CORKLINE® slat), and carefully remove the cut material (waste). In order not to disturb the aesthetic impression, when placing the slats, make sure that the joints are in the same direction when placing the slats.

IMPORTANT: When working, be sure to take all precautions. We recommend using protective gloves and using a professional scalpel!!!

5. Gluing

Before installing the CORKLINE® floor covering, the base must be clean, flat and dry. Depending on the type of substrate and glue you use, and in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendation, apply the appropriate pre-preparation on the substrate. Minor damage and a rough texture of the substrate can be covered with a slightly higher consumption of glue. On the cleaned base (deck), and with an eventual pre-tank deposit, apply the glue with a spatula (recommendation B1) starting from the middle of the previously marked surface towards its ends. Pay attention that the glue is evenly applied over the entire surface of the laying. In order to make full contact between the base and the floor covering, the adhesive application should be slightly wider than the surface of the CORKLINE® plates. Carefully lay the CORKLINE® slat in the glue and after positioning it press to surge into the glue with its entire surface, and squeeze all the air out of the glue. Place the lamellae tightly clinging to each other repeating procedure until the installation is complete. In order to further ensure quality contact between the CORKLINE® floor covering and the base, we recommend fixing the lining with a slight blow with a rubber hammer (or using some other elastic surface as a base for impacts, e.g. cork tile).

NOTE: If you plan to lay CORKLINE® as shown in the picture, before gluing the inner slats, we recommend fixing (gluing) the edge slats (frame) first. After installing the floor covering, excess glue is best removed immediately after installation when it is relatively simple to separate it from the surface. If the glue dries, it is possible to remove it using a special scraper that does not damage the deck.

6. Grouting

After the end of gluing the CORKLINE® floor covering, it is necessary to approach the grouting with the appropriate grouting mass. Before starting grouting, the edges of the slats need to be protected with crepe tape two-sided along the entire lamella, and apply a pre-preparation depending on the type of grouting mass you are using, that is, the recommendation of the manufacturer of the same. Using a silicone "gun", press the grouting mass carefully and evenly into the joints. After drying the grouting mass (we recommend waiting at least 24 hours) carefully remove the excess material with a flat knife or scalpel so that the grouting mass remains at the level of the CORKLINE® floor covering.

NOTE: For grouting, you can use the same material as for gluing. The same is found in the package.

7. Tic oil protection (teak oil)

In order for the floor covering exposed to external influences to keep a fresh and natural appearance as long as possible, we recommend coating it with tic oil. After processing the joints, carefully sand the surface of the CORKLINE® floor covering with sandpaper granulations 60-100. Clean the surface thoroughly and carefully from dust. Apply the oil to a dry and clean base with a clean cloth, brush or sponge. To ensure optimal surface coverage, rub the oil into the substrate with light movements. Wait 5 minutes, then wipe the excess oil with a clean cloth. If necessary, apply a second layer of oil. Note: We recommend reapplying teak oil as soon as you notice changes in the surface of the floor covering caused by weathering, or preventively at least once a year.

8. Replacement of damaged slats

Although CORKLINE® is an extremely durable floor covering resistant to shock, wear, scratching and other mechanical damage, there is still a possibility that unplanned damage may occur during exploitation. The advantage of the CORKLINE® floor covering is that it is possible to replace each individual slat with a new slat in a fairly simple way.

PROCEDURE: Cut the damaged slat, in the form of a cross-section, gently to the deck. With a sharp spatula, from the middle to the ends, remove the slat all the way to the edge (the next lamella). Perform the procedure carefully so as not to damage the adjacent lamellae. Remove the remnants of the slat, and thoroughly clean the surface. Install the new lamellae according to the above instructions.

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