All About Bamboo Flooring
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Bamboo flooring is the most ideal for you who is environmentally aware and who would like to see to it that the flooring you use for the house is as natural as it can get. Bamboo flooring is a grass, not a wood, flooring. The speed with which bamboo grows means harvested bamboo is replaced far more quickly than harvested trees, that the production of bamboo flooring has no adverse effects on the environment. Bamboo is an ideal material to make into eco friendly flooring: It grows extremely fast; it is sturdy and stable; it is beautiful to look at; and it is cost effective.
Bamboo floors have a similar hardness to any hardwood floor. When bamboo goes through the manufacturing process to become flooring, the bamboo becomes hard enough to be made into solid and engineered floor planks. One of the key elements that makes bamboo flooring so attractive is that it is an environmentally responsible choice. As you have read, the harvesting of the individual bamboo plant does no harm to it, and it remains to be one of the fast-growing plants in the world. It is important to buy three-layered bamboo flooring if the board width is eight inches or more. One-layer bamboo might tend to cup or warp.
Installing bamboo flooring is easy too. Bamboo floors can be installed using any of the usual hardwood floor installation methods, which include free floating floor where the planks are simply glued together to form a single piece and float freely over the sub-floor, straight gluing a new floor to an existing floor, and a basic nailing method of nailing each plank to the sub-floor. And before installing your bamboo flooring, let it acclimatize to your house for about a week. Your bamboo flooring’s moisture content should be within two to four percent of that of your sub-flooring.
