Re: [GBlist] re: bamboo flooring

[Chris N Graham <chrisngraham@yahoo.com>]

Chris:  Please explain about cross-lamination and what
problems you experience as a result (I'm a layperson
and, sorry, I don't understand what problems you're
having with brittleness if the floor also wears like
iron).  I've read about bamboo floors and seen them at
a home show (they were beautiful), so I'm also
interested in them.  Thanks!



--- Chris Koehn <chris@koehn.com> wrote:
> 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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