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The Look and Strength of Hardwood for Less: Strand Woven Bamboo Flooring

If you’ve been looking for a green flooring alternative to hardwood without compromising aesthetics, then bamboo flooring may just have what you’re looking for. Environmentally friendly, durable, and beautiful, bamboo is finally beginning to enjoy some of the popularity it deserves. The trend is definitely on the...read more
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The Business of Cleaning Bamboo Floors

Bamboo is a flooring material that is easy to maintain, which makes it an attractive green flooring option. Its maintenance is very similar to that of regular hardwood floors, at least the wood floors of the modern, hassle free variety. When...read more
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Taking Care of Your Bamboo Floor

Bamboo is an easy-to-maintain material that only needs regular sweeping and keeping moisture levels down to a minimum. In fact, much of what helps to classify it as a green flooring material comes in the form of its environmentally friendly, hassle-free upkeep. If you care for your bamboo floors properly, you can enjoy...read more
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Five Reasons to Choose Bamboo Flooring

Many homeowners know for certain that they do not want to install marmoleum floors, vinyl tile, or carpeting in their homes. In fact, many know from the beginning that they’d like some type of wooden floor in their homes. However, traditional hardwood floors are not only expensive, they can be a bit finicky...read more
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Engineered Bamboo Wood Flooring Advantages

Homeowners of today don’t just want a ton of options; they want a ton of environmentally friendly green flooring options. Not only that, but they expect it to look good, install practically anywhere, and last for years. Is this too much to ask for? Absolutely not!

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Bamboo Wood Flooring is a Durable and Beautiful Flooring Option

Many homeowners desire the look and durability of traditional hardwood floors, but are concerned with the environmental impact that comes with producing the material. Although most hardwood flooring manufacturers use responsible harvesting practices, the fact remains that harvesting the tree kills it and...read more
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Bamboo Flooring Installation – Preparation

Bamboo flooring is a popular green flooring alternative to hardwood floors. Many homeowners worry about the cost of installation, but the truth is that many forms of bamboo flooring are do-it-yourself friendly. Installing bamboo flooring need not be the headache that some imagine it to be. Following these straightforward...read more
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Bamboo Flooring – The Beauty of Bamboo

Bamboo stands out as a practical flooring option due to its durability and reliability. Not only that, the beauty of bamboo radiates all throughout the room to give an interior the warmth that consumers want. The colors and styles of bamboo flooring make it an attractive and versatile flooring option for everyone. It is a wonderful alternative to hardwood...read more
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Advances in Flooring: Engineered Bamboo Flooring

While solid bamboo flooring is positively beautiful and exceptionally sound, there are certain areas in the home where installing the material could lead to problems down the road. The areas where solid bamboo does not perform at its best include any areas that are prone to moisture. However, there is an alternative that will still allow homeowners to enjoy this green...read more
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A Quick Guide to Bamboo Floor Installation Preparation

Thanks to its renewability and sustainability, bamboo flooring has given homeowners everywhere a green flooring alternative to traditional hardwood floors. Every bit as durable and attractive as solid wood, bamboo continues to enjoy a rise...read more
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Why Bamboo Floors Are Becoming the Preferred Choice

Bamboo floors have recently become increasingly famous as a flooring option, and even though bamboo flooring is not the same as hardwood floors, bamboo has tremendous potential as a flooring resource. It is durable, tough and environmentally friendly, and...read more
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Where Should Bamboo Flooring Be Installed?

Bamboo flooring is a versatile and tough flooring product. Though it is not technically a hardwood floor, many people do view it as such. It is decorative, useful and globally popular. Bamboo wood flooring is not only meant for laying aesthetically beautiful floors but also has multiple uses in construction,...read more
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Keeping Bamboo Floors Clean

Bamboo floors have gained popularity over recent years as a green flooring alternative. Although it gives an appearance similar to that of hardwood flooring, bamboo is actually classified as a grass. However, the way the grass is prepared...read more
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How a Bamboo Floor is Installed

Bamboo wood floor installation is not much different from standard hardwood floor installation. For homeowners, the primary motivation for doing bamboo wood floor installation is to save money. It can be installed in half the cost by doing it yourself. Installing a bamboo floor can be an easy weekend project.

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The Different Colors of Bamboo

Bamboo flooring is a popular, environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional wood floor. They are tough and durable, despite their technical classification as a grass, so tough in fact that they rate in hardness close to that of some of the most popular hardwood floors.

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The Different Cuts of Bamboo

When you think of bamboo, floors may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but the truth is that bamboo makes for some pretty amazing floors. Add to that the fact that bamboo is a completely natural, totally eco-friendly material, and you’ve got a green flooring material with looks near that of hardwood.

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Environmental Benefits of Bamboo

In an age of growing environmental concerns, bamboo flooring is the most preferred choice for consumers looking for green flooring materials as an alternative to hardwood floors. Bamboo flooring is the one of the most environmentally friendly flooring options you can select for your home.

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Colors of Bamboo Floors

Taking the flooring industry by storm as a natural, eco-friendly alternative to hardwood floors, bamboo flooring certainly has a lot to offer homeowners. This green flooring option, gives a certain flexibility of design one may not think...read more
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Bamboo From Harvest to Flooring

A common error some make about bamboo is that it is a type of hardwood flooring. Not to be confused with common associations of many species of grass, bamboo is actually a type of grass which matures into a material that can rival the hardness of maple! Being well adapted to the environment in which bamboo...read more
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A Bamboo Flooring Installation

A bamboo floor installation is not much different from standard hardwood floor installation, with a few possible variations. Some of the most important steps in the installation take place before putting in the bamboo floor.

The first step in bamboo floor installation is making sure the...read more
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The Bamboo Floor

The choice of a bamboo floor is quickly gaining popularity for both commercial and household use, especially in North America. Stronger and denser than many hardwood floors, a bamboo floor is highly resistant to moisture. It has been discovered as a brilliant alternative to traditional hardwood flooring....read more
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Bamboo Flooring Dos and Don’ts

As environmental awareness increases, more and more homeowners are looking to green flooring to complete the look of their home. While hardwood flooring is harvested (in most circumstances) responsibly, it still requires cutting down trees...read more
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Bamboo Floors

Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants of the world. It produces a yield that is about 25 percent more than any other species of wood. Bamboo is now being used as a flooring material as well, as a part of the hardwood family, though it is technically a grass. In fact, it is one of the upcoming materials in today’s floor...read more
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Tips for Installing Bamboo Flooring

Thanks to its environmentally friendly qualities, Bamboo floors are gaining popularity. Bamboo floors are available in a variety of constructions, designs and finishes. A bamboo floor is essentially a type of engineered wood floor. Installing it is therefore relatively easy.

The ease with which a bamboo floor can be installed depends on the type of subfloor over...read more
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