Solid bamboo flooring is on hand in lengths of 3 to 6 feet, though other sizes might be sold. Solid bamboo can be installed by gluing, stapling or nailing. A floating floor would simply contain solid bamboo which is over 4 feet. The longstrip style of bamboo often comes in lengths of seven feet and widths of roughly 8 inches. It is often used for floating installation and has a regular tongue and groove system. It can be stapled or glued down. The variations in the style of bamboo depends on the specific slats it contains. Most of the bamboos are called either horizontal or vertical, which is fundamentally the differences in the joining of the bamboo slats to make the flooring. The look of the floor can be changed a great amount depending on the direction of the slats, whether they are laid horizontally or vertically.

A style that is fairly common in the bamboo flooring market is known as the strand woven which is basically shredded, then glued together, then cured so that it will stick together again. This produces a very heavy floor which can face up to very high-traffic. The failing to this type of floor is that it requires a great quantity of glue to put the floor together, thus makers may employ a cheaper glue that contains high levels of formaldehyde. Therefore , this kind of floor is not strongly recommended. Though, once another sort of glue is available, without the somewhat toxic formaldehyde, this type of floor will be recommended to those who prefer this look.

To construct a robust solid bamboo floor, the high narrow stalks of bamboo are cut into strips, then glued all together in layers and fashioned into flooring planks employing heat and pressure. These solid bamboo floors are often five / eight inch thick. However, cheaper bamboo is usually thinner, which makes it better to notice its low quality.

Longstrip bamboo is thought to be a structurally engineered floor. It contains bamboo on its surface, and a wood core board and a balancing wooden back layer. It’s a floating floor that contains wonderful expansion and contraction capacities that are far better than solid bamboo.