Bamboo flooring: opinions please.

[Mr Gus]

Unless others can lead me towards a more sustainable & affordable flooring I think this is my next purchase.

Proposed Site: Landing & ex nursery room

How durable is it though?

We have / will have (more) dogs who scratch, scrabble & play rough.
Considering "dogs" there is the continence issue at both ends of life, inevitably.

How workable a product is it?
Any downsides that puff pieces in magazines don't tell you? (the death of journalism is modern journalism)

What is comparable that should also be under consideration?
CO2 footprint / shipping footprint, bearing in mind its climate growth hardiness are there plantation sources that don't come from china but closer to home?

[Bugtownboy]

Presume it’s an engineered board type flooring ? Do you have any particular products in mind and a link to them ?

[Mr Gus]

Having just read that many are full of formaldehyde, I'm more interested in the soy bean resin variety (which is used succesfully on my snowboards to reduce the construction nasties)

Tougher the better, thicker the better, but ultimately how does it survive with dumb dogs, seeking infor from pre-existing people as to how soon it looks tatty & should I consider something else, a regular hardwood.

[AE-NMidlands]

I have done a floor in a heavily-used room with reclaimed wood blocks and am really pleased with the result. Admittedly SWMBO did the stripping of the old bitumen off the back of each block while I was at work (and hurt her wrists in the process) but it has given us a brilliant floor with tremendous resilience - and negligable carbon footprint. It is stuck down to a cement/concrete screed (there's our CO2!) over a floor slab with insulation and DPM underneath.



For new suspended downstairs floors we have gone with insulation and modern particle boards, and older floorboards have wood fibre insulation then hardboard, underlay and carpet on top.
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[Mr Gus]

Very nice job.