How to make sure your bamboo floors are really green.
In theory, at least, bamboo flooring is a very green product. Bamboo is easily renewable – it matures in as little as three years, and it doesn’t have to be replanted after harvesting. If the root system is left in place, the stalks will simply regenerate on their own.
Bamboo doesn’t require much in the way [...]
How bamboo is made into flooring.
Bamboo grows all over the world. A grass and not a tree, it’s one of the fastest growing plants on earth. In fact, a single shoot or stalk of bamboo can grow as much as 4 feet in a day.
Aside from the appearance, which is elegant and sophisticated, what attracts most people to bamboo floors [...]
Types of bamboo floors.
Unlike conventional wood flooring, bamboo floors can be either vertical or horizontal. Both wear equally well and are about the same price. The biggest difference is in the appearance.
A horizontal bamboo floor will show the knuckles or nodes that appear every foot or so in the bamboo stalk. This gives the flooring a very [...]
