Classification and precautions for indoor bamboo flooring
When it comes to home renovation, besides ceramic tiles and wooden flooring, bamboo flooring offers a beautiful texture and comfortable feel, creating a more pleasant living space. Many people are unfamiliar with bamboo flooring and have many concerns when choosing it. Let's take a look at the pros and cons of bamboo flooring!
A prominent advantage of bamboo flooring is that it's warm in winter and cool in summer. Due to bamboo's low thermal conductivity, it doesn't get cold or hot itself. It's especially suitable for flooring and wall decoration in living rooms, bedrooms, gyms, studies, offices, hotels, and guesthouses. Another major feature is its minimal color variation.
Bamboo flooring material is hard and not moisture-proof. While it's resistant to sunlight, it can easily deform, and in humid southern regions, it's susceptible to insect infestation. Compared to traditional engineered wood flooring, bamboo has its advantages and disadvantages. Bamboo flooring is wear-resistant, pressure-resistant, moisture-proof, and fire-resistant. Its physical properties are superior to solid wood flooring; its tensile strength is significantly higher, and its shrinkage rate is lower than solid wood flooring, meaning it won't crack, twist, deform, or warp after installation.
However, bamboo flooring's high strength and hardness mean its foot feel isn't as comfortable as solid wood flooring, and its appearance isn't as rich and diverse as solid wood. Its appearance features natural bamboo textures and beautiful colors, aligning with people's desire to return to nature, which is better than laminate flooring. Therefore, its price falls between solid wood and laminate flooring.
Types of Bamboo Flooring
Bamboo flooring can be classified by its surface structure into three main categories:
Radial bamboo flooring (side-pressed bamboo flooring)
Tangential bamboo flooring (flat-pressed bamboo flooring)
Based on processing, bamboo flooring can be divided into carbonized bamboo flooring and natural color bamboo flooring.
Natural color bamboo flooring retains the bamboo's original color, with less color variation than wood flooring, rich bamboo grain, and symmetrical colors. The surface is treated with clear varnish, using the most basic bamboo color, making it bright and clean.
Carbonized bamboo flooring involves treating bamboo strips with high-temperature and high-pressure carbonization technology, which deepens the color of the bamboo pieces and makes their color more uniform and consistently distributed.
Maintenance of Home Bamboo Flooring
It's important to maintain bamboo flooring by keeping the indoor environment ventilated and dry, avoiding direct sunlight, and preventing damage to the floor surface during daily use. You should regularly clean the floor to keep it tidy. When cleaning, first use a clean broom to sweep away dust and debris, then wipe with a wrung-out damp cloth. If the area isn't too large, you can wash a mop clean and use it to mop the floor. Do not wash with water, and do not use a very wet rag or mop for cleaning. If any liquid is spilled on the floor, immediately wipe it dry with a dry cloth.
If conditions allow, you can also periodically wax the flooring to enhance its protection. If the varnish surface is damaged, you can repair it with ordinary clear varnish or have the manufacturer repair it.
