Bamboo Or Hardwood Flooring

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Bamboo or hardwood flooring.

While hardwood flooring can last up to 75 100 years bamboo floors have a lifespan of 10 25 years. T x 5 1 8 in. L engineered click bamboo flooring 2 49. Elwell owner and operator of bamboo flooring hawaii in honolulu says there are over 1 000 types of bamboo species but moso bamboo is a good one to look out for.

Hardwood floors are natural and durable but expensive bamboo floors are cheaper and growing in popularity. In addition bamboo doesn t have a grading scale like most hardwood floors. Both bamboo and hardwood floors can be installed over radiant heating. For pricing and availability.

Both are available in a wide range of styles and are highly versatile equally suiting traditional homes ultra modern decors and anything in between. We give them both 10 out of 10 for natural variation in the grain. W x 36 in. Bamboo hardwood flooring.

Bamboo a native plant to tropical regions with heavy rainfalls grows much faster than hardwood and has a different cellular structure. It is the least expensive and least durable form of bamboo flooring and it cannot be refinished. Both bamboo and hardwood flooring exhibit beautiful natural variation in the grain with a superb look and feel that oozes quality. Bamboo is not wood.

There are some stores. Home decorators collection hand scraped strand woven wellington 3 8 in. Moreover it is not recommended to use radiant floor heating 4 under a plank wider than 3. However the installation should be floating or made with an interlocking tongue and groove edge rather than a glue down or nail down installation.

This lack of scale can make choosing a quality bamboo flooring brand more difficult. Radiant heat flooring. For example bamboo flooring that isn t properly boiled steamed and dried can shrink after installation causing unsightly gaps. However bamboo does have a few detracting points.

Although it is commonly grouped with hardwood flooring bamboo is not actually a wood but rather a woody grass. This flooring is comparable to engineered hardwood and is installed in the same way usually with click lock planks that float over a foam underlayment. Both types of flooring are prone to warping from humidity in the environment.