The Best Carbonized Bamboo Flooring For Your Home
Like all products there are many different grades and qualities of bamboo flooring. Some are made of young bamboo and some of more mature bamboo. Some are carbonized and some are not. Carbonized bamboo flooring has a darker rich finish. When you begin shopping for a new bamboo floor to be kind to the environment (because it is a renewable resource), get all the information you can. You can go on the Internet to several really good sites and get a lot of facts about bamboo flooring to help you choose the product you want. Many online sites have consumer ratings listed on different bamboo floors.
Solid bamboo flooring is made with tongue and groove (fit together) construction and can be nailed to wood sub-floor or glued to cement sub-floor, but not floated. There are engineered and laminate bamboo floors that are made with click together floating floor construction. The best bamboo is 5 to 7 years old with uniform, dense strips. The bamboo plant grows fast, tall and straight which is good for flooring. The bamboo stocks are hollow with thin walls that need to be cut in strips that are laminated together to make to make flooring 5/8s inch thick. They can be made into horizontal or vertical bamboo flooring. Horizontal flooring is made by laying the strips flat so top surface shows and vertical flooring is made laying the strips on their sides and laminated together in long slender rows. Both can be made into carbonized bamboo flooring.
You can get bamboo natural, stained or carbonized bamboo flooring (boiled strips are darker and softer). All of these looks have their own beauty and character. You can get bamboo flooring with different lengths of warranties from 10 years to 25 years. The longer the warranty the more coats of finish and the better the quality of finish. The better finish is the Klumpp brand made in Germany and the lesser finish is a generic aluminum oxide finish. The better finish is semi-gloss in looks and the lesser finish is a satin coat finish.
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One of the online sites carrying high quality bamboo flooring is www.builderdirect .com. They have a good selection as well as Cali Bamboo and many other choices. Wilson art has some very nice laminated bamboo flooring patterns if you like the ease of click together flooring. The better bamboo flooring takes up to 15 days of treatment and drying to get it down to the optimum 6% moisture content. These floorings can have 6 to 10 quality coatings that are UV cured for scratch resistance and durability. The carbonized bamboo flooring has a warm brown look that many buyers like. |
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