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Click-lock Longstrip Bamboo
Q: We recently installed springwood click-lock longstrip bamboo throughout our entire first floor. It looks like someone had on a high heal shoe, with…
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Question About Bamboo Floor Problem
Q: I purchased bamboo flooring from ifloor and had an installer lay the floors down. Unfortunately, he left pretty large gaps between some of the sections…
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Bamboo Over Black Mastic
Q: I have wood parquet tiles that are attached to a cement slab with black mastic. The tiles are in bad shape and some “pop” as they detach and reattach…
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Cognac Horizontal Satin – Ming Dynasty Bamboo Install Follow-up
Q: I have a couple of more quick questions. 1) will I need to glue the tongue/groove as well? (with a different type of adhesive obviously) 2) Is the…
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Cognac Horizontal Satin – Ming Dynasty Bamboo Install
Q: I’m planning to install “Cognac Horizontal Satin – Ming Dynasty Bamboo” over a concrete sub-floor using the glue down installation. I was hoping you…
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Restoring Shine to a Bamboo Floor
Q: Hi Flooring expert, We have had our bamboo kitchen floor for close to 8 years. We love the floor, but after so many years, we notice that the shine is…
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Removing Scratches from Bamboo Flooring
Q: I recently had installed vertical bamboo flooring with a mat finish. On day one I made a couple of minor scratches. Can I cover the mat finish with a…
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Strand Woven Bamboo Flooring
Q: I would like to put down a bamboo flooring. I was told that strand woven is the hardest bamboo there is. Is that correct? Can you float a bamboo floor…
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Expansion Gap for Bamboo Flooring
Q: I am installing solid bamboo flooring in a doublewide and the manufacturer suggests 5/8 in expansion gap. This is probably worst case, we live in…
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Canine Quandary
Q: I want to replace the wall-to-wall carpeting in my house with either hardwood or bamboo flooring. I hesitate to do so because I have two large dogs (50…
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Installing Bamboo on a Landing
Q: I read the previous posts on installing wood on stairs and I’m ready to go except for one issue I haven’t seen addressed. I want to use the solid stair…
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Eco-Friendly Flooring
As a new feature here to our Ask the Flooring Expert blog, we are going to begin doing a monthly editorial about issues that have come up frequently or…
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What is Carbonized Bamboo?
This question comes from John C. over at iFLOOR.com’s Tacoma, WA location. He mentioned many of his customers ask about carbonized bamboo and how its…
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Strand Woven Bamboo Emissions
Here’s a little extra post with a bit of handy info I received from Steve earlier today about Strand Woven Bamboo which I wanted to share. Steve took the…
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Bamboo Flooring Over Tile
Q: When installing floating Bamboo flooring over uneven concrete (Old tile mortar and slightly uneven) What would be the best material to use underneath…