When you decide to change flooring of your home or commercial place you obviously have multiple choices to design and pick from some of the most auspicious and elegant floor options. However when you have liberty to chose only the best and redecorate your home with cost effective flooring option then why don’t you consider bamboo flooring. Remember bamboo at first sounds like wooden flooring which actually is not because bamboo is grass. Looking at the speed with which bamboo grows makes it all the more easy and readily available for flooring. Harvesting bamboo is speedy, easy and does not imbalance the environment. In fact, bamboos are much cheaper and speedily harvested compared to harvesting trees.  If you are interested to know more about bamboo flooring then this article will work as guide for you.

Process of making Bamboo Flooring

Once the bamboos are harvested to their maximum potential, they are cut and the hollow bamboo canes are converted in to strips. These strips are then boiled in to water containing preservatives. During this process all, the impurities in bamboo are removed and those softened strips are then pressed flat. Using urea containing resin, these flat strips are then converted in to laminated boards. Dying and staining these finished boards is final process that is carried out on selected boards for coloring or dying those bamboo boards in to different colors.

Finished and Unfinished Bamboo Flooring

When you are purchasing bamboo flooring, you usually come across two major options finished and unfinished bamboo. Unfinished means bamboo planks have square edges offering enough flexibility to attach and fir with relative ease. After installation consumer can finish such bamboo planks using sealant or protective sealant as per their choice, which further increases their durability and look.

Finished bamboo planks usually have beveled edges that are mostly sealed with polyurethane. This offers finished bamboo flooring a beveled or planked look. As these planks are sealed with polyurethane, no additional staining or sealant is required to finish the floor installation job.

Bottom Line

When you want to install bamboo flooring, it is necessary that you should possess a clear and concise idea about your exact requirements. Selecting bamboo on their finish, durability, sustainability and cost effectiveness is very much necessary. In addition, if you want carbonized or stained bamboo floors you should check out the possibilities and after care required for such flooring.