The bamboo flooring is a very ecological bet for the decoration of our home. The characteristics of this material make it the perfect option to preserve the environment. In this way, we can fight against natural overexploitation from the living room of our home. Thus, the wood of all the forests of the world will have reduced its risk of disappearance. In this way, we will help to achieve a more sustainable planet with a greater number of forests. This is especially important as in the case of exotic woods. 

Bamboo floor: generalities

The pavements made with this material are obtained from a grass with a look of a tree. Bamboo belongs to one of the botanical families having a greater use and importance in our everyday life. Thus, we can easily find it in various fields with different uses. 

Bamboo can easily be found in 4 of the 5 continents on Earth. The only exception is Europe. Hence, this is why there are a lot of forests covered entirely with bamboo wood. This, to a large extent, occurs thanks to its rapid growth. Thus, we find some species that can reach a daily meter and adapt to almost any climate.

Bamboo, however, is a recent material in northern latitudes such as Spain. While it is true that its use is very common in Asian or South American countries, in Europe only a few decades ago it was introduced as a construction material. Its hard fibers are known by the nickname of "steel grass". On the other hand, in addition to these characteristics, it offers stability conditions without comparison with other woods. 

Bamboo flooring: characteristics

The bamboo flooring provides unbeatable conditions of changes in temperature. Due to its composition, it becomes warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Besides, it is also famous for its feature of noise absorption and non-slip characteristic. Thus, with its natural beauty, durability and hardness, it becomes the most preferred material by several customers. In addition, it offers a greater stability at the time of contracting and expanding as compared to other woods. Finally, few of its less popular but important feature of Bamboo is anti-allergic and anti-static character.

However, the characteristic that connects us with this article is the sustainability of Bamboo. Sustainability has a great importance in our life and this is why Bamboo becomes a much desired material to obtain sustainable spaces. Thus, Bamboo helps in providing great speed in growth and development of sustainability. If a bamboo forest gets destroyed then it can regenerate again after 6 years. As compared to 50 years of traditional woods, Bamboo provides a great speed of recovery of the damages in environment. On the other side, it is one of the invasive species that does not need the help of humans to get regenerated itself. Hence, in this way, the Bamboo forest gets easily regenerated and recovered independently. In addition, this plant has characteristics that make it an element of great absorption of carbon dioxide. Thus, it absorbs up to 30% more than other trees.

Bamboo flooring: uses, installation and maintenance

Bamboo floorings can be of floating flooring or solid bamboo flooring. In this way, the installation possibilities are innumerable and adapts to any space. In addition, the way bamboo works is similar to other soils. For this reason, we find a large number of formats and assembly systems. In this way, we can place it in any room and in the most appropriate way for our decoration style. Its hardness makes it a perfect pavement for areas with high traffic or outdoor. However, in outdoor spaces, treatment is usually applied to help with maintenance.

The installation of bamboo flooring does not differ much from the rest of the platforms. So, it is important to leave the slats in the room to install a couple of days before. In this way, the material acquires the necessary humidity and the variations after installing it will be minimal. Also, in the installation it will be important to take into account all the expansion joints.