When mentioning floors for home decoration, lots of people would think about ceramic tile, solid wood floor and so on, YES, in the past, they are the main floors in market. However, in recent years, one new type of floor become more and more popular and this is bamboo flooring. I am sure not every people are familiar with this new floor, let us learn it related knowledge in following article.

What is bamboo flooring?

Just as its name implies, bamboo flooring is mainly made from mao bamboo as raw material, at the beginning, it is small size bamboo board, and then connected together with strong glue to form bamboo floor.

Advantages of bamboo flooring

Bamboo flooring become most people’s first choice when selecting floor exactly because of its remarkable advantages.

Firstly, as is known to all, bamboo has low heat conductivity coefficient and it will not release quantity of heat or cold air by itself. Based on such characteristic, you will feel cool in hot summer and also feel warm in cold winter indoor if you floor bamboo flooring at home.

Secondly, according to different colors, bamboo flooring can be divided into natural color bamboo flooring and handmade painting color bamboo. As for the natural color flooring, its chromatic aberration is less than wood floor, what’s more, bamboo texture is more clear and abundant. As for handmade painting bamboo flooring, its texture is not obvious because of painted oil painting. In short, the chromatic aberration of bamboo flooring is lesser.

Thirdly, longer working life than other floors. Generally speaking, the working life of common bamboo flooring is as long as 20 years, of course, the actual working life is closely related to maintenance ways in daily life. For example, if conditions allow, bamboo flooring should be polished with wax about every two or three months, which plays important role to protect flooring. Meanwhile, it should not be under the blazing sun for quite a long time or wet through.

Finally, it is beneficial to people’s health. Some people would doubt this point, however, it is true. According to related research report, bamboo flooring is useful to guard against rheumatic arthritis, and reduce the pain of rheumatism and other illness. In addition, bamboo flooring is effective to protect people’s eyesight because ultraviolet ray indoor can be greatly absorbed by it.

As the old saying goes, there is no perfect goods in the world, so when you think about bamboo flooring’s advantages, you should also consider its disadvantages, at the same time, with different environment, bamboo flooring’s disadvantages would be different, in south area, it is easy to go mouldy while it is easy to crack in north area.