Why hardwood?

Learn if hardwood is the flooring solution for the manner in which you live. Hardwood surely answers the must for attractiveness in your home.

The elegant look of a hardwood floor can add warmth and personality to any space. In fact, the normal characteristics of wood add depth and a visual look that many other types of floors try to replicate.

Rich, pleasing hardwood floors are not only gorgeous to live with, they can also add value to your dwelling at resale time. Plus, today, hardwood types, options and applications are more varied and charming than ever.

As the consumer demand for hardwood floors has grown so has the manufacturer’s ability to produce better quality finishes and superior construction techniques.

The result of those advancements is that wood floors can now be installed all the way through the home and over a wide assortment of subfloors.

Why bamboo?

The answer is easy, exciting and ecological. Unlike hardwood, bamboo is not a product of trees, it’s a quick growing grass.

Bamboo can cultivate from sprouts to harvesting in three to five years, thus an acre of bamboo can offer more flooring than an acre of trees.

When bamboo shoots are cut the roots stay in one piece and brand new sprouts grow in their place.

The thick root mass of bamboo helps put off soil erosion and provides a feasible crop opportunity in mountainous acres where other crops cannot produce.

The type used for flooring is harvested from selected groves in Southern China. And, good news — this species is not eaten by Pandas.

Bamboo can be an attractive substitute to hardwood because it is eco-friendly, is dimensionally stable, 27% harder than Northern Red Oak, 13% harder than hard Maple, can either be nailed-down, glued-down or floated, and it’s resistant to flammability.

Bamboo flooring comes in planks and is installed just like engineered hardwood floors. These floors can be installed over many different types of subfloors.

If you believe wood rules, we invite you to come discover the other sections on beautifying your home with hardwood.

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