China bamboo flooring | Access floor | Raised floor

Many people don’t know to install bamboo flooring. The points below may help your installation work:

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.

Bamboo flooring(B) is usually installed neighboring to ceramic tile(C) whatever the place of the C. The transition space is usually covered by bamboo T-moulding or reducer. Sometimes copper reducer is also used. C is water resistant while B is not. There is often large amount of water on the surface of C which is installed in bathroom or kitchen. So it would be better that the surface of ceramic tile at these places is a bit lower that B and the surface is leaned to waterspout which is far from B. The color of bamboo flooring is usually natural bamboo, carbonized bamboo and strand woven design, which is a bit simple. So it is important to choose C with suitable color to match them. Usually beige color is a good selection. It seems red and black or other dark colors can’t match the color of B well.

Someone had the wall of his house painted again. There is some lacquer falling on the bamboo flooring. And the lacquer hasn’t been removed for a long time. It has become solid and attached the floor firmly. He wonders how to remove the lacquer.

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.