China relevant manufacturers improved the technology a great deal and promoted the sale of the product globally. This type of flooring began to be known and accepted by some global flooring users due to its low price, excellent strength, good foot feel, environment protection and limited color difference. The production of China bamboo flooring increased rapidly around 2000.

More and more global flooring users even began to like bamboo furniture, bamboo curtain and bamboo craft due to their favor for China bamboo flooring. China government has issued the relevant industry standard and national standard for China bamboo flooring to improve the quality and production further. Now China manufacture technology for the flooring is the best world widely. Many overseas companies are thinking about adopting bamboo flooring manufacture technology from China.

China is rich of bamboo resource which area ranks among top 1 world widely. About half of all China provinces have bamboo resource. Mao bamboo is the best bamboo material for flooring purpose. Most mao bamboo resource locates in China. Now there are about 200 China bamboo flooring manufacturers which mainly locate in the south of China. Now there are various types of the flooring such as strand woven type and stained type. The flooring has been sold to Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Germany, Mexico, Middle East, Russia, South Africa, Spain, UK, USA, etc.

The history of China bamboo flooring is only about over 20 years. Many flooring users still haven’t accepted the product. The labor and materials for the flooring are much more expensive. The unit profit is lower than before. And the world financial crisis occurred in 2008 affected the sale of the flooring. These are the main problems which China bamboo flooring industry experiences now. But it is an ideal substitute for solid wood flooring due to low price and environment protection. Its market share is still too little compared with laminate flooring and solid wood flooring. There must be huge potential for the development of this type of flooring.

1. Low price
China bamboo flooring(F) is much cheaper than most types of solid wood flooring which prices are often 3times, 4 times higher.

2. Good foot feel
The foot feel of F is better than laminate flooring. It feels warm in the autumn and feels cool in the summer.

3. Environment protection
Bamboo grows very fast. Many solid wood can’t used for flooring purpose unless the tree is at least 10 years old. But bamboo can be used to make flooring when it is only 5 years old. It is an ideal wood flooring to replace solid wood flooring. So China bamboo flooring can reduce the cut of forest a great deal.

4. Excellent stability
F is not easy to be out of shape due to its proper structure.

5. Great Hardness
The natural hardness of F is 1 times more than that of most type of solid wood flooring, so it is well impact resistant and durable. Its life lime can be over 20 years if it is properly used.

6. Less color difference
The color difference of F is much less than that of solid wood flooring.

The disadvantages of China bamboo flooring are average wearing resistance and much less color choice.

1. Average wearing resistance
F is not strong abrasion resistant. Its surface is easy to be scratched by metal or sharp things. Some manufacturers will lacquer some paint which contains AL2O3 on the surface, but laminate flooring is much more wearing resistive than F.

2. Much less color choice
The colors of F are very limited. It is divided into natural type and carbonized type which is in terms of the carbonization process during the production. The natural type offers the natural bamboo color. The carbonized type offers brown colors. It is divided into vertical type and horizontal type in term of its structure. It can be stained with various colors such as red color. But the colors of China bamboo flooring are much less than that of solid wood flooring and laminate flooring.

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2. Use clean broom to get rid of the sundries and dust. Then clean the floor with cleanser or damp mop(half-dry). Don’t use water to clean the floor.

3. Regarding the dirt on the floor, scratch it with a obtuse knife Then use damp mop(half-dry) to clean the dirt. Wax the surface of bamboo flooring periodically.

4. Handle with care while moving furniture on bamboo flooring. Don’t put heavy furniture on the floor directly. Put soft pad between the legs of the heavy furniture and floor to protect it. Avoid the leg of metal furniture from touching the floor surface directly. Avoid metal or sharp things from damaging the surface. Lacquer the finish if the paint on the surface is damaged.

5. Close window and door before leaving to avoid rain from falling on the planks because the rain will make the floor planks expand and warp after the planks absorb too much water. Wipe any liquid away immediately if it falls on the floor.

6. Keep the room ventilated to make the indoor damp air and the little formaldehyde from bamboo flooring goes out when it is damp. Keep the air a bit damp when it is too dry.

7. Avoid sunshine from irradiating the bamboo flooring directly as direct sunshine irradiation does harm to the lacquer’s life time.

1. Bamboo flooring(B) is affected by air humidity. The water content of B must be low for dry area, while it should be comparably higher for damp area. B will possibly warp if the air humidity is quite different from the water content of B.

2. The gaps haven’t been kept among each plank during installation. 0.2mm gap must left there for expansion purpose. Otherwise the planks are easy to warp when they expand.

3. There was no gap kept between wall and B during the installation. Or the gap is too little. The gap should at least 5mm wide, otherwise warps is easy to happen.

4. Expansion space hasn’t been kept in big room during the installation. Expansion space must be kept if the installation area is over 9m*10m. The related accessories such as T-moulding or reducer can be used to cover the expansion space.

5. B is dunked in water. Bamboo flooring is strong moisture resistant. But it is not water resistant. If the planks are dunked in the water from kitchen or washroom for a long time, it will expand in big sizes and warp.

1. Open the package in the installation area at least 4 days before the installation to make sure that bamboo flooring be used to the temperature and humidity.

2. Keep the installation space dry and flat. Paint moisture proof lacquer or fit underlay with PE film on the installation space.

3. Choose ceiling joist with hard and dry wooden wood plank. And the ceiling joist must not be wormy. Fit the ceiling joist to the subfloor and make it with multi cross appearance. The size of the cell should be around 20cm*20cm. Make the surface of ceiling joist flat. Keep at least 5 pcs of ceiling joist under plank.

4. Keep 0.6mm gap between each bamboo plank. Fix the bamboo plank on the ceiling joist with nail. The knock angle is should be around 45 degree.

5. The short side of the bamboo plank should head the door to have a better look.

6. Keep a 12mm wide gap between bamboo flooring and wall for the expansion purpose. Paint the cut end with varnish for the moisture proof purpose.

Below are some ways he can follow to do the clean work:
(1) Don’t use steel ball to rub the painted area. Also don’t use strong alkali or acid or cleanser to get ride to the lacquer as these ways will make the color of the touched area quite different from other floor place and affect its look.
 (2) Use moist mop to soften the lacquer. Scratch the lacquer with a knife. Avoid the edge of knife to scrape bamboo flooring as it is not strong abrasion resistant. Then use mop to get rid of the separate lacquer. For the left lacquer, wet it with acetone as acetone can dissolve the left lacquer. But the quantity of acetone can’t be too much is this type of floor is water proof. Get ride of the acetone as soon as the lacquer is got ride of.

1. Price
L is much cheaper than B. L is mainly made up of high density fiber board instead of hardwood. So its price is much lower.

2. Color
The color of bamboo colored laminate flooring(L) is from the decorative paper which is imitated from the real bamboo flooring(B) with computer. The color of L is usually vertical natural or carbonized in vertical direction. Anyway it can’t be as vivid as the real color of B. And B offers many other looks with strand woven and stained types. The stain type offers various looks due to the different types of lacquer and paint technology.

3. Dimension
The size of L is usually 1213*193*8.3mm and 1213*193*12.3mm. And the size of B is usually 960*96*15mm. So it is easy to recognize the real B with the dimension if you are familiar with bamboo flooring.

4. Foot feel
The foot feel of B is much better than that of L even L is  12mm thick or with attached underlay. L is mainly made up of high density fiber board. People feel hard when stepping on it. And there is some noise when people walk on it as it is of a “floating” type. B is usually 14 or 15mm thick. And it is mainly made up of bamboo strips. So it offers better foot feel and thus make house more valuable.

Besides, laminate flooring is much more abrasion resistant as its first layer is mainly made up of alumina which is main material of diamond. But bamboo flooring contains less formaldehyde.

Bamboo flooring is very difficult to fade if there is no problem with the lacquer quality and method of paint. Surely he can remove the faded floor. But he will save some money if he sands the floor and then paints the floor with the same color of his floor. For natural color, the work is easy to done. But for carbonized color, it is a bit difficult to adjust the color. It will be better to hire some special installer to do the work.