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Bamboo Flooring: An Eco-friendly and Stylish Upgrade to Your Home

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Looking for an eco-friendly and stylish upgrade for you house? Try replacing your carpeting and/or linoleum flooring with Bamboo flooring. While an oak tree takes 30 years to grow large enough to harvest, the same amount of bamboo can be harvested every 3-5 years. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on the planet, growing one […]

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Top Five Reasons To Use Bamboo Flooring

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Bamboo is a unique alternative as a flooring option. Both beautiful and durable, bamboo floors can add beauty to any area of your home and can withstand the wear and tear of daily life.
Here are my top five reasons to choose bamboo flooring for your home:
1. Aesthetic Beauty
Contrary to popular belief, bamboo is actually a […]

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Bamboo Flooring: Is It The Right Choice?

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Bamboo flooring is amazing to look at. It has a very beautiful texture and adds quite a bit of style, beauty and quality to a home or business. It is quite a versatile element as well. Bamboo fibers can be made into virtually any type of material allowing for a wide range of styles, colors […]

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How To Install Bamboo Flooring

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Not just food for pandas or the stuff of cheap picnic mats, bamboo is now being processed with modern techniques into beautiful “hardwood” flooring that beats standard wood floors in durability, hardness, and dimensional stability.
An added bonus to these beautiful floors is the knowledge that bamboo, unlike wood, grows quickly and abundantly, reaching maturity in […]

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Solid Strip Bamboo Floor Installation

November 8th, 2007 · No Comments

PREPARATION
Prefinished solid strip flooring is best applied by nailing, stapling, or gluing planks to a wood subfloor. Gluing directly to a concrete slab may be done at or above grade. Do not install below grade. Flooring may also be applied over radiant floor heating systems. Flooring should be allowed to acclimate on the job site […]

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An Introduction To Bamboo Flooring

November 7th, 2007 · No Comments

A little known fact: bamboo is technically not a tree at all, but a grass that includes over 1,000 species. Even without planting, bamboo naturally grows back, and it reaches maturity in only four to five years. These qualities make bamboo an excellent, forest-friendly source of wood for flooring.
Bamboo flooring may be new to North […]

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