Why Bamboo

 

Benefits of Bamboo Flooring

Bamboo Flooring has a range of benefits with the most obvious being environmentally friendly, saving the    Natural Forests and the Communities who make a living from harvesting the bamboo.

Other benefits for installing  Bamboo flooring are:

  • Solid Floor Boards - (Not Laminated)
  • Environmentally Friendly
  • Great for Children and Adults with Asthma
  • People with Allergies
  • Low Maintanence
  • Easy Cleaning
  • Installation time
  • Harvested from Sustainable Plantations
  • Saving the natural food resource for Panda's

 

Colour

Carbonization is a steaming process during manufacturing which is some what is similar to processing sugar cane, it caramelizes the colour through the whole board, so if you need or want to re-sand the boards the colour remains so there’s no need to stain.


Finishes

Bamboo Flooring comes in Pre-Finished walk on that day or un-Finished for people who would like to have the polishing done on-site by a professional. Our Bamboo Flooring come's in Pre-finished Matt, Semi-Gloss or High-Gloss. Un-finished (raw) boards can be waxed or Tuna Oiled.


The Process of Bamboo
1. Bamboo is harvested
2. Skin & knots are removed
3. Anti-insect treatment & bleaching
4. Drying
5. Veneering
6. Cutting
7. Planning
8. Sizing
9. Molding
10. Sanding
11. Coating
12. Colour Separation
13. Packing
14. Storing
Strength & Durability

A Janka rating measures the force required to dent the timber, Our Bamboo is the second hardest flooring in the World.


Vertical Bamboo 6.8
Jarrah 8.5
Horizontal Bamboo 8.5
Strand Woven Bamboo 14.3 to 15.8

Re-Newable Resource

When fully harvested bamboo is denser & stronger than traditional hardwoods. Bamboo is actually a giant grass & regenerates itself every 5-7 years, unlike hardwoods which can take up to 50-75 years, making bamboo a natural renewable resource for today’s changing needs for the consumer and the environment.

Comparable in price to traditional hardwood flooring – Bamboo regenerates rapidly and as an alternative to timber flooring, Bamboo is helping save our Forests & Future. There is no need to worry about the Panda’s food resource either, as the Bamboo we use in our flooring is not the species of Bamboo that Panda’s eat.