Bamboo floors are a popular choice these days. Using bamboo saves trees and can be an environmentally-friendly and durable choice, if you choose well. In the same way you get low-quality carpeting or high-quality carpeting, you can get low or high quality bamboo flooring. All bamboo flooring is not the same. How can you find high-quality, eco-friendly bamboo flooring? These seven tips will help you find bamboo flooring that you can be happy with for many years:
1. Which type of bamboo flooring would you like? There are 2 types of bamboo flooring –
traditional and strand woven. Traditional bamboo flooring comes in 2 different grain directions:
horizontal and vertical. Traditional bamboo can also be solid bamboo all the way though or engineered which has thin veneer layer on top with compressed particle board. Even though traditional
bamboo flooring is about 25% harder than Oak and Maple, it still can be easily scratched or
gouged by high heels, small pets …