[GBlist] re: bamboo flooring

[Chris Koehn <chris@koehn.com>]

We have about 600 sq. ft of Amati bamboo floor. It wears like iron and is
very hard. Only complaint with the Amati product is that the floor planks
are glued up of strips of bamboo 'ripped" from stalks. There is no cross
lamination (as in a Kahrs floating floor) and this has proven to be a
somewhat brittle condition, due to the straight grain of bamboo and hardness
of it. We installed the Amati floor as a floating floor (not nailed down-
one plank glued to the next) as per Amati's instructions. They did say a
nail down application was also recommended- we wanted to float as we went
over a SIP floor panel- 1/2" OSB skin is not the best nail holding
capability for a floor. Perhaps a nail down application for this type of
floor would have been better. 

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