What is Bamboo Flooring?
The Bamboo plant is a grass that grows in abundance. Bamboo is one of fastest growing plants in the world. Grown in warm tropical climates, this sustainable material can provide a durable flooring product and used as construction material.
Bamboo is cut and pressed into sheets and planks. Processing is by cutting stalks into thin strips, planing them flat, boiling and drying the strips, which are then glued, pressed and finished. Generally long used in China and Japan, entrepreneurs started developing and selling laminated bamboo flooring in the West during the mid 1990s; products made from bamboo laminate, including flooring, cabinetry, furniture and even decorations, are currently surging in popularity. The quality of bamboo laminate varies between manufacturers and the maturity of the plant from which it was harvested (six years being considered the optimum); the sturdiest products fulfil their claims of being up to three times harder than oak hardwood, but others may be softer than standard hardwood.
Types Of Bamboo Flooring
- Vertical Grain: Slats of Bamboo Are Pressed together showing less of Bamboo Grain
- Horizontal Grain: Slats of Bamboo that show the natural bamboo
- Carbonized: A Heating Process that turn the Bamboo a Carmelized Natural Brown Color Tone
- Strand: Woven Bamboo That is adhered together creating a very durable flooring product.
JOHNSON BAMBOO FLOORING STYLES
- JVC-9601 Horizontal Bamboo Floors Natural 3-3/4 Inch Solid Construction
- JVC-9602 Horizontal Grain Carbonized 3-3/4 Inch Solid Construction
- JVC-9603 Vertical Grain Natural 3-3/4 Inch Solid Construction
- JVC-9604 Vertical Grain Carbonized 3-3/4 Inch Solid Construction
- JVC-9605 Strand Natural 3-3/4 Inch Solid Construction
- JVC-9606 Strand Carbonized 3-3/4 Inch Solid Construction
- JVC-9608 Strand Carbonized 3-3/4 Inch Solid Construction