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Well, its been a while and I'm back to the renovations. Its time that I purchase the floors, I was thinking about bamboo, because I look the look of the floor and the prices isn't bad at all. What are your thoughts anyone currently have bamboo floors in their home?
Bamboo ... it might be harder than wood, but it's just as susceptible to scratches and dents. Lower priced varieties are either horizontal, in wihch is the bamboo laid in horizontal layers, or vertical, in which they are stacked side-by-side vertically. Then there's strand woven, in which the grass is woven together, making it denser (and therefor, even tougher).
Overall, it's a good choice for those who wants variation in the flooring, but can't afford hardwood. Just don't expect it to be a miracle material, and understand you're still going to get what you pay for.
Bamboo ... it might be harder than wood, but it's just as susceptible to scratches and dents. Lower priced varieties are either horizontal, in wihch is the bamboo laid in horizontal layers, or vertical, in which they are stacked side-by-side vertically. Then there's strand woven, in which the grass is woven together, making it denser (and therefor, even tougher).
Overall, it's a good choice for those who wants variation in the flooring, but can't afford hardwood. Just don't expect it to be a miracle material, and understand you're still going to get what you pay for.
Agreed. The bamboo flooring that we looked at at Lowe's scratched just as easily as the other wood samples on display. That stuff was pretty cheap though.
We just put in hardwood flooring and we didn't choose bamboo because the only type of bamboo that was hard enough for us is the strand type and I don't like the strand look.
We have the carbonized stranded bamboo, laid in 4" wide planks. It's brown (not the natural yellow color of bamboo) and first time visitors to our home always ask us what kind of hardwood it is.
The top coat is aluminum oxide in a satin (not high gloss) finish which fits our casual decor. The aluminum oxide can scratch, which shows up as a white line which fades over time. We picked up a few of those moving heavy furniture into the house. Our dog does not scratch it, even when her claws are scrabbling for a hold (she tends to slide on it) so it seems to be better than our old wood floors in that regard.
We have a small room in the basement with bamboo flooring. It was affordable and we don't often use that room other than having a treadmill on it. It's nice but nothing remotely appealing as real hardwood flooring. The issue with bamboo is it grows with notches every few inches. So once laid out in a room, it looks like dots all over your flooring. If it's a small space with an area rug, it would look good but not if it's completely bare and the bamboo visible throughout the space.
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