Bamboo Flooring

Bamboo is a grass

A common error some make about bamboo is that it is a type of hardwood. Not to be confused with common associations of many species of grass, bamboo is actually a type of grass which matures into a material that can rival the hardness of maple! Being well adapted to the environment in which bamboo commonly grows, each bamboo plant thrives in areas of the fine quality of poor soil, and remains to be one of the fastest growing plants in the world. Controlled the bamboo plant has very little impact on each individual stalk, which will continue to grow long after the harvest. This makes bamboo as a renewable source of flooring material, and why it is often associated with the spirit of choosing environmentally friendly for floors. The fact that such an option is particularly attractive parquet flooring bamboo is an extremely beneficial choice for your own interior environment!

How Bamboo Flooring is Made

Once the bamboo has been harvested, the outer layer of green "skin" is removed and each stalk is cut into lengthwise strips or "fillets". These curved fillets of bamboo are milled along their outer edges to flatten. Items exceeding this process will continue in another type of bamboo flooring that is called "strand woven bamboo flooring" - more about that later. The flattened strips of bamboo are then kiln dried to remove the 'natural moisture in the bamboo and then boiled. The bamboo fillets are now ready to be pasted together to make a reliable and solid surface that is more than suitable for flooring. Bamboo is subject to a final stage of compression, which makes it more durable and ready to ship. The tongue and groove elements are added to make installation as easy as possible. It is worth mentioning that the result of this manufacturing process depends on what type of flooring Bamboo is made. There are several types of bamboo flooring, both in terms of cut and color, and some differences in how they are treated.