Strand Bamboo Floors

If you're seeking durability strand woven Rustic strand woven bamboo bamboo flooring is the choice! These floors offer the durability in the way they are manufactured. Similar in ways when comparing a wooden bar top finish. For the latter, hardened acrylic is used to protect the surface while becoming dent resistant and keeping the underlying material protected.

Not Just One Appearance

With strand bamboo floors the procedure is somewhat different. Instead of a heavy top coating the resins are mixed with fibers shredded from the bamboo tree itself. Shredding can take place with smaller particles or larger ones making the outcome different. One can have a finer appearance or what could be called rustic (shown on the right).

What Sizes Do They Offer?

In earlier days when strand came into being the more traditional 3 3/4" wide Self locking bamboo floor bamboo appearance was only offered. Since, other variations have come into play including wider planks that can be floated, stapled or nailed to proper sub floor bases. In all cases wider planks will be offered as an engineered type floor and not the solid. One popular manufacturer includes the Teragren Synergy line that measures almost eight inches in width, and is installed by the easier self

locking floating floor system. The application is also used widely by Kahrs, one of the premier floating floor manufacturers of today.

How Durable?

If you've ventured into other bamboo pages on our site you'll find bamboo durability is a tricky one. The overall hardness can play an important role in how durable it really is. Considering strand adds another element to the pie in the type of resin they use in the manufacturing process, hardness numbers can be trusted more. We've done our own unscientific testing and rest assured these products are up to snuff in what they report. The bell weather used in hardness reporting is a standard solid Red Oak. Most strand woven products exceed the Red Oak hardness two fold.

I Like The Look But Not The Color. Any Options?

The last we noticed, Dura-Design had over 20 color options with their strand bamboo line, including near white floors to some darker tones in what they call Leather, Arabica, and Lava. Shown on the left is their Stormy White color. If Dura Design cannot satisfy your color desires, any strand product can be installed unfinished and custom colored on site by knowledgeable professionals.

While we realize the options in bamboo flooring today can be overwhelming. Those lured to the mystique of bamboo floors that don't live in the most careful household, strand woven products may be a viable option due to their inherent construction makeup.

As with all flooring products, increased durability is not an anecdote to not maintaining and caring for the floor. All products will damage and scratch given the right conditions.

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