Bamboo Floors are Environmentally Sustainable

Bamboo floors are environmentally sustainable being harvested from controlled bamboo forests which take one tenth of the time to grow as traditional hardwoods. Make sure you ask whether the flooring you’re about to buy is manufactured using non-toxic glues and water based coatings in a waste free environment. Some cheap products use cheap manufacturing.

Environmentally Friendly Flooring

Many people don’t know it but bamboo is an environmentally sound option if you’re looking to lay a timber floor.

Bamboo flooring is a smart choice for the environment as it is a green and sustainable product harvested from controlled bamboo forests. It takes one tenth of the time it takes traditional timbers to grow to harvesting size. And is manufactured using non-toxic glues and water-based coatings in a waste free environment.

Solid bamboo flooring has 6mm of solid bamboo from the top surface of the floor to the tongue and groove, whereas floating floors have only 3mm or 4mm of timber on the top surface. Therefore bamboo flooring has between 50% and 100% more surface thickness that can be refinished prior to the replacement of the floor. This could be as much as an additional 10 to 15 years more life for your floor compared to a floating timber floor.