FAQ’s
- 1.What are main strengths of bamboo flooring?
- Bamboo flooring products of our company are made from a species of bamboo named “Luong”, which is well-known for strength, suppleness, easy and precise assembly, durability and high aestheticism owing to natural bamboo vein. In addition, the coating paint protects the flooring from absorbency and scratches (the flooring can be used in such places with high density of travels as trade centers, offices, etc.). Thanks to advantages in design, the bamboo flooring is European standards certified and highly appreciated by a majority of customers.
Some main features of bamboo flooring are as follows:
Termite and rot resistance
Resistance to contraction and expansion
Resistance to deformation and decoloration
Minimizing scratches
Easy assembly
- 2.What is the difference between bamboo flooring and industrial hardwood flooring?
- In addition to committed necessary features of standard bamboo flooring like strength, durability and high aestheticism, the choice of bamboo flooring will contribute to the country’s sustainable development by indirectly protect valuable natural resources like ironwood and bassia because bamboo is a fast growing and plant and has short-harvesting season. Bamboo flooring is an eco-friendly, unpolluted and reusable product.
- 3.Which rooms in your house that bamboo flooring can be applicable to?
- Bamboo flooring can be unlimitedly installed in any room in your house. Installed in the living room, it can increase the warmth and traditionality. Installed in bedroom with caramelized color, it will maximize relaxation. In kids’ rooms, it will help children avoid cold which is usually got in enameled or stone flooring rooms. You will find it more convenient in cleaning bamboo floor owing to the features of dirty resistance and easy-to-clean. TBF’s bamboo flooring will bring your house a brand-new style and value of internal decoration
- 4. Why do should choose bamboo flooring?
- Installing bamboo floors is the most environmentally friendly natural hardwood flooring alternative you can install in your home. Check out these facts.
Bamboo flooring is a renewable resource The bamboo grass is one of the fasted growing plants on the planet and yields 2500% higher usable biomass than traditional hardwood flooring tree sources. It takes 4 - 5 years to grow to maturity, and once harvested continues to grow by forming new shoots.
Bamboo flooring is strong
With a tensile strength exceeding mild steel, bamboo can withstand up to 50,000 pounds of pressure per square inch, which meets or exceeds several grades of steel strength ratings of 50,000 psi ratings.
Less contraction and expansion
Bamboo floors have about half the contraction and expansion problems associated with solid hardwood flooring. There is much less chance of cupping or bulging of the floor product, and will perform better in higher humidity environments or areas with larger temperature variations.
Bamboo floors are unique and beautiful
Bamboo flooring has become trendy and will often stand out as a unique design element in your home that is beautiful and warm. Natural colorings of bamboo are light tan and also a variety of richer caramelized amber tones developed with a smoking process during production. Bamboo flooring can also be purchased in over 30 pre-finished stain colors to match any interior decor.
Consistent coloring and even grain
Bamboo flooring in manufacturing in two basic grain alignments. The vertical grain orientation provides a very consistent and even coloring pattern, which is great for smaller spaces and can make them feel more open and roomy. Horizontal grain alignment patterns display the unique bamboo joint features of the grass, and create a one of a kind flooring look.
Selecting bamboo protects the global environment
The reduction in earth’s ozone layer is directly linked to the mass of equatorial rainforests that encompass our planet. The hardwood species that grow in our rainforests are very slow growing, and once harvested, can take hundreds of years to replenish. By selecting bamboo flooring you reduce the consumption demand for rainforest hardwood material and help preserve the rainforests and their important environmental functions.
- 5. Why Bamboo Flooring Is So Ecologically Friendly
- Today, almost 1 million acres of forest disappear each week. This alarming rate of deforestation is forcing many world economies to rethink their business and manufacturing practices.
Today, almost 1 million acres of forest disappear each week. This alarming rate of deforestation is forcing many world economies to rethink their business and manufacturing practices. A seventy-foot tree cut for its lumber takes 65 years to replace. A seventy-foot bamboo cut for market can be replaced in less than 3 months, as bamboo is officially recognized as the world’s fastest growing plant. Some species can grow 3 feet per day! Driven by the constantly-growing consumer demand for environmentally friendly products, many bamboo-related companies are gaining momentum as a reliable source for high quality and durable green building materials. Consumers are choosing high quality alternative building materials over traditional non-sustainable products. Hybrid cars, recycled materials, reusable energy sources, bamboo flooring; use of these products is exploding as consumers are recognizing the need to choose products of a sustainable and regenerative nature. The general population is becoming weary of ever-decreasing hardwood forests and the threat that this deforestation poses to an already fragile global environment. Bamboo flooring is the logical and ethical choice. Since bamboo is termite, moisture and rot resistant, it functions extremely well as a prime flooring material. There are multiple types of bamboo floors sold that cater to unique tastes. Strand woven bamboo flooring is twice as resilient as regular wood flooring and has a hybrid grain that is between wood and bamboo. Distressed bamboo floors look antique as if they were pulled out of an old barn. Engineered/laminate bamboo floors are highly stable and great for basements and in areas of varying humidity. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on earth. It is known to produce 30% more oxygen than a hardwood forest of comparable size, while preventing erosion, restoring soil, providing sweet edible shoots and removing toxins from contaminated soil. Ecologists tout bamboo as a logical, renewable source of building materials. Many promote bamboo planting for erosion prevention, and even to reverse the effects of global warming. Bamboo helps reduce carbon dioxide gases blamed for global warming. Bamboo removes significant quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which makes it a highly efficient plant, and conducive to fresh air. Being a grass, bamboo regenerates without replanting after harvesting. Bamboo is a natural water control barrier. Because of its widespread root system and large canopy, bamboo greatly reduces rain run off, preventing soil erosion. Bamboo can keep up to twice as much water in a watershed. Due to its high nitrogen consumption, bamboo helps mitigate water pollution, making it a solution for excess nutrient uptake of wastewater from manufacturing, livestock farming and sewage treatment. Bamboo can restore degraded lands. It is a remarkable plant and can be grown in soil damaged by overgrazing and poor agriculture practices. Proper harvesting does not kill the bamboo plant, therefore topsoil is held in place. Because of its dense litter on the forest floor, it feeds topsoil creation, restoring healthy agricultural lands for generations to come. Traditional hardwood lumber trees, such as oak, maple, and birch, take 40-50 years to regenerate. In the meantime, there is less oxygen produced, less carbon dioxide consumed, and more soil runoff in the spot where those trees were harvested - all producing negative environmental effects. Our planet is suffering from resource depletion, habitat loss, species extinction, and ecosystem pollution. The choice of bamboo flooring will greatly help reverse those negative trends.
- 6. What is the difference between Naturalized and Carbonized Bamboo?
- Bamboo flooring is typically available in two colors, natural and carbonized. Additionally, other colors in bamboo flooring may be obtained by staining the unfinished product. The natural color is yellow/blonde whereas the carbonized color has a darker, coffee-colored tone. Generally, carbonized flooring is not recommended for certain high traffic commercial applications since the steam-treatment process weakens the bamboo strips by about 20%. However, our manufacturing process differs from most other manufactures in that the initial bamboo strip processing is within a major bamboo growing area. Because of this, our manufacturers are able to immediately cut and strip the bamboo shoots and, within 2 hours, carbonize these strips. Consequently, we gain an 8% hardness in these strips by eliminating the boiling water treatment normally required when processing bamboo.
- 7. What is the difference between horizontal and vertical bamboo flooring?
- Bamboo flooring has two basic constructions; horizontal and vertical. Horizontal boards are manufactured by laminating three layers of bamboo strips side-by-side. This presents an appearance that has been compared to flattened bamboo stalks, with the unique nodal pattern characteristic of bamboo.
The vertical construction is produced by turning the bamboo strips 90 degrees and positioning them next to each other. The strips are then pressed into a single layer. In effect, one walks on the edge of the strip. The horizontal construction, when properly assembled, is both harder and more dimensionally stable than the vertical construction.
