These days, people are being inclined to the growing popularity of bamboo floors installation. The idea works behind this innovation is its affordability, beauty and environment friendliness. A few research and reports says that it can hold a greater amount of carbon in comparison to other woods. In this way, it significantly contributes to the environment by reducing the level of greenhouse gases that cause the climatic change. Additionally, bamboo takes maximum 6 years to mature which is rather less than those which takes more than decades. 

Flooring industry is one of the most booming industry and bamboo floors come among its latest innovations that have achieved massive attention of its admirers. Besides being environmentally friendly, their aesthetic beauty looks soothing to the eyes. People can pick out from the huge array of natural colors of it. These natural shades resulted from the proper carbonization of bamboo. Among those natural colors light tan and honey brown are the most favored one.

Requires less maintenance

Because bamboo is such a tough and flexible flooring material, and does not scratch or wear easily as other hardwood flooring, there is rather less maintenance required. Environmentally conscious people will find that, the floor which requires lesser chemicals to clean it meaning that it is much more environment friendly.

Carbonization

Carbonized bamboo is generally softer than the natural bamboo. And the color of the carbonized bamboo is much darker. It is much more long-lasting and steady than the hardwood floors. Other reasons of its popularity are that these are stain resistant as well as moisture resistant.

The flooring industry is taking bamboo to the next level to suffice various flooring needs and achieve maximum customer satisfaction. These are kept in premium category because of being high in quality. 

Types of bamboo flooring

A successful flooring company always ensures that they give their customers variety of options to choose from. This array majorly includes two types of bamboo flooring – horizontal grain bamboo and vertical grain bamboo. But horizontal grain bamboo remains the most preferred choice. Aside from these options, there are few more options that include strand bamboo floor and engineered bamboo floor. These are considered as the innovative flooring milestones that contain stiff flooring material. The main constituent of engineered bamboo flooring is shredded bamboo fibers. However, it will have similar look and feel but would be rather less expensive than other solid wood flooring.

In comparison to the other types of bamboo flooring, woven bamboo flooring is rather unique in all respects. These are made of shredded bamboo fibers and then blend with resin prior being squeezed into hard blocks that are then granulated and placed on flooring surface; it is much harder than solid bamboo.

Cost factor

Cost is the most important factor that determines the choice of a person. But here you do not need to worry about cost as bamboo flooring is rather less expensive than the other types of wood flooring. There are some other factors too that can influence the cost moderately such as labor costs, geographical location, and the extent of area that needs to be covered with a specific flooring.

The application of a floating floor is another cost-effective option for people. When you plan for renovating the existing floor, it requires further labor and other additional charges. Such kind of flooring system is developed so that people can avoid the high labor costs of removing the existing floor. It is unconnected to the floor undersurface. It is also beneficial if the subfloor is not crooked.

Cleaning

After the installation of the floor it is necessary to think about the process of cleaning the bamboo flooring. It is good to know that it is rather easy to clean and maintain such kind of floors. Timely vacuuming can clean the floor. Now you know various facts about bamboo flooring.