On Feb 16, 10:49 am, Karl S wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:47:08 -0500, goaway wrote:
I have bamboo floors, very nice to look at for a SHORT WHILE !!!!!!!!
Bamboo is VERY soft it dents faster than pine. If anybody wants to use this
material I would restrict it's use to bedroom floors. In my dining room and
kitchen it is a complete and total disaster. For a simple check, take a
sample of what you what as a floor. Then drop a plier on it from waist
hieght. This does a close aproximation of a "normal" female in spike heels.
Aslo the sliding action of chairs, either on rollers( Nice ruts) or standard
chairs, as they are pushed back by a typical 200 lbs male, again nice ruts
in the floor.

I could have written this about my bamboo floor.

Mine is a floating product from Ikea called Kvist. Not only is it soft
(snip)
Ikea don't do bamboo floors. They do laminates with a bamboo
pattern.

Bamboo itself is medium hard. It comes in at 1642 on the Janka
hardness scale. At one end of the scale is Douglas Fir which comes in
at 660 and, at the other, the extremely hard and expensive Brazilian
Walnut at 3800. Bamboo is harder than red or white oak or hard maple.