When bamboo floors were introduced in the market for the first time not many people were interested to install these floorings. People actually installed bamboo floorings back then based on the advantages it provided on cost and convenience basis. It seems that those people made right move at right time, because, today almost everyone wants to install bamboo flooring in at least one of their rooms. You might want to know, why there is so much fuss about bamboo floors and what actually it is. Well, in this article you will at least understand some of the basic but most important aspects of bamboo floorings.

About Bamboo Flooring

First, you need to know that bamboo looks and feels like wood but is a kind of grass that harvests continuously from same sprouts. East Asian and South Pacific communities were using bamboo for different building elements on wide scale including for walls, and floorings but in past two decades, bamboo floors have become much popular in other parts of world. Although there is considerable difference between the traditional and modern approach of bamboo flooring, latest technology and processes have made bamboo even sturdier, durable and stronger.

Types of Bamboo Floorings Available in Market

Engineered Bamboo Flooring: You might have heard or seen horizontal grain or horizontal cut bamboo floors, which is nothing but engineered bamboo flooring. Here flat bamboo strips with solid layer are glued to another substrate. Offering the most elegant and easiest way of installing, engineered bamboo floor offers the most elegant and distinctive horizontal ring markings on the finished floors.

Solid Bamboo Flooring: By gluing, together solid bamboo pieces solid bamboo flooring which sometimes is also called as vertical cut or vertical grain bamboo flooring you get this beautifully finished flooring planks. Usually solid bamboo is considered as stringer and more sturdier than engineered counterpart of bamboo flooring is. After installation, it offers thin strip look as the bamboo strips are compressed together in vertical fashion.

Strand Woven Bamboo Flooring: In this type, bamboo is shredded rather than cutting and mixing suitable adhesives to make it harder and stronger; it is then compressed to make harder bamboo planks. Probably this type of flooring is strongest and hardest than above two types. More often stranded woven flooring does not have natural or traditional bamboo aura. However, the entire manufacturing process offers enough flexibility to the manufacturers in creating versatile length, patterns, textures, styles and colors in bamboo floorings.