When it comes to deciding between using bamboo or hardwood for wood floors, it’s important to note the strengths or weaknesses. When you’re picking a type of wood flooring, there are a host of things to consider.
Bamboo Floors
Bamboo floors are flooring choices made from a bamboo plant. Bamboo is a type of hardened grass rather than a type of hardwood. The manufacturing process for bamboo flooring products takes cylindrical, vertical bamboo stalks and turns them into horizontal bamboo planks. Bamboo flooring products can add a contemporary look to your current home as a DIY home improvement project, or they can lay the foundation for an entirely new house’s decor.
There are two types of bamboo flooring: engineered and natural bamboo. Engineered bamboo flooring combines a top layer of bamboo with a plywood or similar type of base, whereas natural bamboo is just solid bamboo. To give it a darker tint, bamboo flooring can also go through a carbonization process, otherwise bamboo flooring looks closer to the natural, cork-like tint of bamboo stalks.
Cost
Bamboo flooring costs are usually cheaper than those for hardwood flooring, although it will depend on the individual flooring dealer. While bamboo can be more cost-effective overall.
Durability
Both hardwood and bamboo floors are incredibly durable, making them ideal for high-traffic areas in the home. You can determine this sort of durability through the Janka hardness scale—a scale that discerns the strength of wood by how well it sustains itself against a hard, steel ball pressed into it. The Janka Hardness scale is used to determine a hardwood’s resistance to dents, dings and scratches. With a Janka Hardness rating of 1380 out of 4000, Natural Bamboo is in the mid-range for hardwood flooring options – slightly harder than White Oak and softer than Hard Maple.
Finish
Hardwood and bamboo floors both come in a variety of finishes, and you will possibly need to refinish them at some point in their life cycle. As far as cleaning them between refinishing, both are better off with a mild soap mixture than with a heavy-duty wax cleaner. Either type is available as engineered or laminate flooring, but keep in mind the finish will change the way you should go about sanding or refinishing the wood in the future.
Sustainability
Bamboo is an eco-friendly, renewable resource, whereas hardwood can be harder to cut down, manufacture, and recycle in an environmentally conscious way.
Water-resistance
Top-quality bamboo flooring is slightly more moisture-resistant than hardwood flooring, partially due to the fact it originates in a rainier climate. That’s not to say that sustained water damage can’t affect bamboo flooring options.
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