Posted on 2015-2-8 8:54:05
In recent years, more and more bamboo flooring appear in the market, so that customer would be puzzled which bamboo flooring is the top quality one. As you know, made by different workmanship and raw materials, their sale price would be different. Among all these flooring, let us talk about how to select high quality bamboo flooring.
There are too many tips to select high quality flooring, and among them, the first thing you should learn its to pay attention on the details of bamboo raw material.
At the beginning of processing bamboo raw material, bamboo surface should be digged completely, for example, the yellow parts including bamboo skins should e cleaned, as a result, only the crude fiber in the middle would be retained.
Why we should remove the bamboo green? Both density in bamboo skin and its crude fiber are different, therefore it is easy to be cracked even under the same humidity and dryness condition because of different shrinking percentage. At the same time, there is sugar and other nutrient contents contained inside the tabasheer, if not be removed, bamboo flooring is easy to be damaged by worms and even mildewed.
The performance of bending resistance by bamboo raw material is better than wooden raw materials, so that bamboo flooring with 15mm thickness has enough bending resistance performance, crush resistance performance and impact resistance, meanwhile, when walking on flooring, people will feel more comfortable.
In daily life, too many customers have such viewpoint that the thicker bamboo flooring, the higher quality it is, under such circumstance, some flooring manufacturers don’t remove the bamboo green and bamboo yellow so that the bamboo flooring looks too much thicker, with 17mm or 18mm thickness, however, its agglutination condition is not very good and it is easy to be cracked. As for top quality bamboo flooring, after finish machining, all the bamboo chips are compact together, and the tolerance of both its thickness and width should be controlled at 0.1mm.
How to identify top quality bamboo flooring? If bamboo green and bamboo yellow are not removed completely, such bamboo chips can not be pressed by large scale press machine, therefore you should pay attention on the flat clamp, which should be three layers structure., if it is poor quality bamboo flooring, its inside structure and back part should be shoddy goods for high quality goods even if the flooring surface are made from top quality bamboo, what you should do is to turn over flooring to check its condition.
In addition this tip introduced in above article, you can also buy bamboo flooring when looking at its color to judge whether the raw material is boiled down or even carbonized.