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Re: another renovation question, bamboo flooring
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Posted by SWEDECAR [Email] (#112) [Profile/Gallery] (more from SWEDECAR) on Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:50:01 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: another renovation question, bamboo flooring, TML [Profile/Gallery] , Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:03:21
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It is also so many different levels of bamboo to choose from it's hard to advice.
We went with something called Tiger striped Bamboo sold by Lowe's which is a 3/4" thick plank of shredded bamboo pressed together with glue. It was the highest priced bamboo back then 4-5 years ago at some $5.50 sq/ft.
The whole plank is solid so you can sand it and refinish all the way down to the tongue and groove if need be in the future.
Other cheaper ones only have a thin veneer on particle board so it can't be sanded.

We nailed it down over the crawl space area and glued and left it free floating over the newer concrete slab. Both ways seems to work fine.

Ours is fairly hard but we have no kids that puts it to the test either. A friend of our that used a less pricy one, more like a veneer, looks pretty worn with lots of marks everywhere but they also use their floors in a harsher way.

One thing I have noticed now years later is that the very flat and varnished surface have fine superficial cracks where the layers and layers of pressed shredded bamboo have slowly moved around most likely from just going through heat/cold/moisture cycles that twist and turns the bamboo.

So I might sooner than later have someone give it a sand job and put on a new layer of varnish just like you do with any hardwood floors to seal it up again.

Anders

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