Bamboo Flooring: Great for the Home and Safe for the Environment
Bamboo Flooring
As environmental pollution and global warming become a daily reality, public are becoming more concerned about their impact on the environment. Beginning with the home, folks are seeking new ways to beautify their house without damaging the environment. The first great place to start is with your floors. Bamboo flooring can be a great option for flooring, and it offers many of the qualities of hardwood at a fraction of the cost.
Sustainable for the Environment
For those who want to protect the environment, one of the best advantages to bamboo is that it has a very low impact on the ecosystem. A parent bamboo plant grows new stalks each year, and in approximately six years, the stalks are ready to harvest. The manufacturers of bamboo flooring can next continually grow and harvest bamboo with no lasting impact on the bamboo forest. With other hardwoods, the trees take much longer to grow; even with reforestation techniques, it can take decades for a forest to grow back to its original state.
To construct bamboo flooring, the bamboo is harvested, split, flattened, processed, and dried. These thin planks are next glued together to create the boards that can be used for flooring. Other types of bamboo flooring involve the bamboo being crushed, with the strands glued together to style boards. Once the glue is dried, the boards are prepared, milled to have proper tongue and groove edges needed when being installed, coated to protect their durability and finish, and thereupon shipped to the store or directly to you. You can even choose to have your bamboo flooring stained to match your décor and tastes. (more…)
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