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Bamboo is only a 15 year warranty, I would use oak or another hardwood. Do you have Lumber Liquidators where you live?
Our last house we installed teak @ $7/sf, rented the gun from home depot. It was almost too hard to work with. I have also installed some laminates but honestly they are such a waste of money. There is no way to fix them once they are scratched which happens really easily. I would do a room at a time in hardwood before I spent a nickel on laminate.