Until now, you might have heard a lot about bamboo floors, its advantages, its durability, its cost effectiveness and its environment friendliness. Chances are more that you also might have heard about ease it provides in installing floor planks. The only thing you might not have heard or read is about the different types of bamboo floor installation techniques. Here we will consider few commonly used installation methods as each method has its pros and cons. Therefore having outright knowledge of bamboo floor installation you can easily decide on the best installation method that suits your budget and your requirements.

Methods Used to Install Bamboo Floor

Direct Sticking: Direct sticking is probably the most preferred and commonly used installing technique. Bamboo floor planks are directly glued to the subsurface, which offers a quite floor to walk on. In this method glue is toweled on the undersurface and bamboo planks are laid on them in specific manner which given permanent and string floor installation. If high quality adhesive is used then keeping planks in place and without producing any gaps or cups you are ready on walk on your newly installed floor in just few hours.

Floating Floor: When you want to install bamboo floor using floating floor method then it is necessary that you should prepare high density but thin underlay. Rather than gluing boards, they are attached using tongue and grove present on all sides of the boards. As the floor, usually floats from the underlying surface this method is called floating floor. Due to the structural design of bamboo planks made to suit floating floor installation method this is probably the most favored and easy installation method.

Plank on Ply: Until now much preferred for installing timber floor, this superior floor installation method can be utilized for installing sturdy and durable bamboo floors. In this technique plywood sheets usually 12 mm thick are nailed and attached to the subfloor with adhesive. Then bamboo boards then secretly nailed and glued to the ply, as it provides easy and comfortable surface for the bamboo boards for installation. Although this is rare installation method not much favored and used, regions with high moisture and homes with small undulation flooring are the preferred locations to use this floor installation method.

Acoubond: Sika International is the company behind inventing this method of installation as it prevents noise to pass one from upper to the lower floor. Usually in high-rise apartments sound absorption system is must therefore using this Acoubond installation method is compulsory in some countries. In this method foam mat is used as undersurface for bamboo floorings on which bamboo boards are laid. Having done this not only, this floor reduces and absorbs noise but it also rectifies surface irregularities in floor.