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Howdy all.
Been a while since I've posted here. SWMBO wants me to put in new floors on the house we just bought. She prefers bamboo flooring, but I've read mixed reviews. Anyone here have any experience with this. Looking for info on durability, ease of installation, etc. Never installed wood floors before, but the process seems pretty basic. Should I be able to handle it easily as long as I have plenty of time? Thanks for any input! Homer |
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wrote in message ... Howdy all. Been a while since I've posted here. SWMBO wants me to put in new floors on the house we just bought. She prefers bamboo flooring, but I've read mixed reviews. Anyone here have any experience with this. Looking for info on durability, ease of installation, etc. Never installed wood floors before, but the process seems pretty basic. Should I be able to handle it easily as long as I have plenty of time? Thanks for any input! Homer I like it, put some in my folks home and its held up very well. Easy to install, no special techniques needed for bamboo. Dave |
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On 14 Dec 2005 21:15:32 -0800, wrote:
(Disclaimer... I am President of Fair Pacific Bamboo Flooring) You know, it's refreshing to see disclosure like that, followed with an extremely useful and informative message. These are the basics. Please feel free to contact us (www.fairpacific.com) if anyone has more questions. We pride ourselves on our customer support, and even if you don't buy our planks, we're happy to help you get the best out of your bamboo floor. See what I mean? The guy gives us a ton of good info, oh by the way he sells the stuff too. This is the sort of vendor participation which we have here from several other folks (...who speak the 'plane' truth), and which improves the group. Thanks for stopping in, Greg, and I hope you stick around. |
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Dave Hinz wrote:
See what I mean? The guy gives us a ton of good info, oh by the way he sells the stuff too. This is the sort of vendor participation which we have here from several other folks (...who speak the 'plane' truth), and which improves the group. Thanks for stopping in, Greg, and I hope you stick around. And Free Shipping! |
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My two cents:
I recently evaluated bamboo as part of a plan to replace most of my house's carpeted areas with wood floors. I'll skip the details and go straight for the bottom line: for my situation, the only bamboo that seemed to be appropriate was what's called strand-woven bamboo. It looks different from regular bamboo strips because the fibers are woven together as the name suggests. It's much denser, heavier and harder than normal bamboo - and looks nice, to boot. Normal "yellow" and carbonized bamboo weren't appropriate for my house because we have large dogs, and the vast majority of info I came across suggests that bamboo dents more easily than most wood flooring - especially carbonized bamboo, which was my preference because of its darker color. The exception to that is strand woven bamboo, which as I mentioned is much more dense than traditional bamboo, so it would have been suitable for my situation. However, the catch in my case was that I needed to install over concrete. If you're installing over a wood sub-floor you have more options because you can staple, float, or glue. For me, floating or gluing down were the only options, and I decided after reading a lot of DIY nightmare stores that glue-down was not a good choice for a first time floor installer like myself. I could have put down a layer of plywood, CDX or similar and then gone with staples, but that would have added significantly to the cost, plus it would have raised the floors up by about 3/4" which would have made transitions between wood floor areas and other areas of the house very awkward. As much as I would have preferred bamboo, I ended up going with an engineered Iroko floor, which looks very nice and has so far been easy to install as a floating floor (I've done two rooms so far). My most important bit of advice is to do plenty of homework and research. I have several friends who bought bamboo from "odd lot" flooring places to save a buck, and ended up with pretty inconsistent-looking floors as a result. FWIW, I purchased the Iroko from builddirect.com and have been happy with the purchase so far (I have no relationship with them other than as a first-time customer). PQ |
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