Bamboo Or Hardwood Flooring

Bamboo is not wood.

Bamboo or hardwood flooring. Bamboo hardwood flooring. Home decorators collection hand scraped strand woven wellington 3 8 in. This flooring is comparable to engineered hardwood and is installed in the same way usually with click lock planks that float over a foam underlayment. Hardwood floors are natural and durable but expensive bamboo floors are cheaper and growing in popularity.

Elwell owner and operator of bamboo flooring hawaii in honolulu says there are over 1 000 types of bamboo species but moso bamboo is a good one to look out for. Both bamboo and hardwood floors can be installed over radiant heating. There are some stores. While hardwood flooring can last up to 75 100 years bamboo floors have a lifespan of 10 25 years.

Both types of flooring are prone to warping from humidity in the environment. This lack of scale can make choosing a quality bamboo flooring brand more difficult. T x 5 1 8 in. All in all.

For pricing and availability. Both are available in a wide range of styles and are highly versatile equally suiting traditional homes ultra modern decors and anything in between. Although it is commonly grouped with hardwood flooring bamboo is not actually a wood but rather a woody grass. For example bamboo flooring that isn t properly boiled steamed and dried can shrink after installation causing unsightly gaps.

However bamboo does have a few detracting points. However the installation should be floating or made with an interlocking tongue and groove edge rather than a glue down or nail down installation. L engineered click bamboo flooring 2 49. Moreover it is not recommended to use radiant floor heating 4 under a plank wider than 3.

Bamboo a native plant to tropical regions with heavy rainfalls grows much faster than hardwood and has a different cellular structure. Engineered bamboo flooring is made by bonding a thin layer of bamboo onto a plywood or mdf core. W x 36 in. Radiant heat flooring.

We give them both 10 out of 10 for natural variation in the grain. In addition bamboo doesn t have a grading scale like most hardwood floors. Both bamboo and hardwood flooring exhibit beautiful natural variation in the grain with a superb look and feel that oozes quality.