Although the national wood flooring association endorses sanding bamboo flooring the process may raise toxic formaldehyde dust from the glue used to laminate the strands.
Bamboo floor filler.
Some scratches may have been there since installation others may result from standard daily use.
I m assuming that the bamboo is very moisture sensitive and has shrunk due to the warm and dry conditions during the winter and will therefor expand again in the summer.
Pick a shade that best matches your bamboo floor and if you have an extra piece left over from installation take it with you when shopping for fill sticks at a nearby flooring or home improvement store.
All bamboo flooring is engineered meaning the strands of grass are sliced and shredded then pressed back together with heat and glues to form the flooring boards.
A wax or putty fill stick designed for wood scratch repair works well on bamboo floors too.
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We have a selection of bamboo fillers to suit our varied bamboo flooring colour range which will help ensure your final installation looks even better.
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These sticks resembling fat crayons are available in dozens of common wood colors.
Like many other types of flooring bamboo floors are prone to scratches.
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When would i need to use a bamboo floor filler.
Would using a floor colored silicone type caulk be good way to fill in the gaps while still allowing for expansion and contraction.
This non shrinking permanent filler can be stained or painted in only 25 minutes meaning your repair is complete the same day you started.
You only sand down floors to do a deep refinish only if they are solid bamboo planks or are engineered if they click locked together and had an underlayment down below them then you would very lightly screen sand and place a polyurethane rated for floors on top.
Filler can be used to cover gaps that may appear between planks of flooring around skirting boards at the edge of door architraves next to door thresholds and between parquet blocks.
In many cases scratches.
Although it s typically referred to as a hardwood flooring bamboo is actually a grass that s highly processed to produce flooring and other home improvement products.