Bamboo flooring is one of the hardest natural materials available for flooring and is an excellent alternative to hard wood flooring. Bamboo has a higher fibre rating than any hard wood, which gives it exceptional hard wearing qualities. This natural bamboo flooring solution is available in six different styles, which will compliment any interior design. From ultra contemporary chic through to a more traditional classic style, natural bamboo flooring will give you a truly unique look. Because bamboo is a rapid growing grass and not wood, it can be harvested every 3-5 years, unlike 15-25 years for most wood. This makes bamboo a very environmentally friendly product for flooring.

Like our other bamboo flooring products, strand woven bamboo flooring shares similar attributes that make it an attractive proposition for any home, office or commercial environment. The durability, warmth and natural beauty of bamboo flooring, make it an eye-catching and atmosphere generating material that creates an immediate impression.

However, where our new range of strand woven bamboo flooring differs, is through a revolutionary process of production: the harvested bamboo fibers are compressed into strands under intense pressure, and a heat-sensitive low-VOC adhesive is applied, which produces the ‘strand woven’ look that is at once extremely exotic and unique looking, but is also one of the hardest flooring products available. During this process, all the harvested bamboo is used, eliminating wastage, making strand woven bamboo flooring one of the most environmentally friendly flooring products available.

Bamboo is one of the most well known renewable resources. Used widely throughout Asia for centuries, for furniture, paper, musical instruments, as well as food, its use in the west has only become more common within the last ten years. It is a grass that grows faster and requires less land than trees - the cyclical nature of bamboo harvesting means that it is in a continuous process of renewal; the earth’s valuable resources are not under attack from your choosing strand woven bamboo flooring!

Strand woven bamboo flooring goes even a stage further through the non-wastage of its production process, and the fact that the one point of concern with any wood style flooring has been addressed – the use of formaldehyde as a binding agent. Strand woven bamboo flooring uses the lowest in the industry, while still producing the most durable and ‘heavyweight’ flooring available.

This durability gives strand woven bamboo flooring an adaptability, making it the perfect choice for all types of environment. Strand woven bamboo flooring creates an immediate effect, with its warm and graceful clean lines; while at the same time, it is a rock hard flooring that makes it suitable for even the most demanding of uses. It is in its ‘woven’ production that gives strand woven bamboo flooring something unique – it does not display the same level of ‘consistency’ that normal methods of bamboo flooring show. Strand woven bamboo flooring has a very distinctive type of grain, that to many people resembles that of a traditional hardwood such as oak and sandalwood, but comes at a fraction of the price – to both your pocket and the environment. Strand woven bamboo flooring is the latest material available in our bamboo flooring range, and it is the one that has most to offer for those looking for something different, yet enduring and environmentally friendly.

Bamboo Flooring – An Eco-Friendly Alternative to Hardwood Flooring

The modern, environmentally friendly and durable alternative to hardwood is bamboo flooring. Being a grass, as opposed to timber, gives bamboo the edge as not only a building product (being strong and at the same time flexible), but also as a sustainable resource: wood takes approximately 15-20 years to reach maturity, whereas the non-harmful harvesting of bamboo takes a mere 3 to 5 years. Bamboo has traditionally been the material of choice in most of Asia, and it is only recently that its benefits and environmental properties have begun to be utilised more fully in the west.

The growth in popularity in recent years for wood flooring has increased the burden on already stretched timber resources. Bamboo flooring shares many of the properties that attract discerning customers to hardwood; it’s low maintenance, hard wearing, and looks contemporary while having a timeless appeal; but it is without any of the environmental concerns that are attached to its hardwood counterpart.

Due to its flexibility as a material, bamboo flooring has a broad appeal that can be manipulated to suit a variety of styles. Its range of applications varies from period homes to offices, designer hotels and bars.

As well as being environmentally sound, bamboo flooring is competitively priced and easy to fit. Ease of fitting is always a worry for the prospective purchaser, with bamboo flooring the process has been simplified by the formulation of three different methods:

1) Floating floor: this involves gluing the tongue and groove joints of the bamboo flooring together over an underlay.

2) Secret Nailing: the bamboo floor is ‘secretly’ nailed down to a wood sub-floor.

3) Gluing down: literally gluing the bamboo floor to a sub-floor.

Each of these methods has its own benefits.

Every effort is made to ensure the bamboo flooring conforms to the rigid E-1 European Standards.

The benefits of choosing bamboo flooring are chiefly to found in the warm, comforting ambience it creates. Bamboo flooring immediately draws attention and recognition to a room, giving it character and focus. With its hard wearing properties, environmental benefits and natural beauty, bamboo flooring is the flooring of choice for generations to come.

The Bamboo Flooring Company are official suppliers of Laybond, Sika and Bona products.