Cork flooring shows seams and chips

Hello everyone,

we also had an expensive cork floor with a decorative layer professionally installed on almost 90sqm nearly three years ago and were already disappointed shortly thereafter.
It is the
"MEISTER KORKBODEN CLASSIC KC 85 S" and is advertised as "highly stable for heavily used living areas." That is a complete joke. Surprisingly, the company Meister no longer produces cork floors. Why is that, if it is supposed to be such a wonderful floor???
Never again cork with a decorative layer! If I had known how bad this floor is, I would never have chosen it.
Our experiences are similar to yours, Volker – so much material has already chipped off at the edges, the edges are unevenly raised, our children had countless splinters on their hands and feet during the crawling phase. A complete disaster! Even a keychain or a falling knife causes nasty dents and scratches, even stiletto heels press into this joke of a floor and leave ugly dents.
I am convinced that this is mainly due to the decorative layer and cork floors without such a decorative layer do not have these problems. Surely many here can confirm this?!

Best regards
Thomas

Our floor has two cork layers, but the majority consists of compressed carrier material (HDF) with the wear layer and vinyl layer on top. So far, the floor has seemed very robust to us. Perhaps this is also because at 10mm, the parquet is simply very stiff. Of course, it is not comparable to "pure" cork flooring. It could very well be that a pure cork wear layer is simply susceptible to point loads.

But normally, the contours of individual planks should not stand out. How was it installed (floating, glued, with/without expansion joints)

The floor was laid floating with movement joints. The "MEISTER KORKBODEN CLASSIC KC 85 S" has a wear layer of 2.5mm and a total thickness of 10mm, making it relatively stiff. Nevertheless, an absolute disaster!