Bamboo Flooring

[scott h]

40 minutes ago, stevewool said:

Have you got a picture of the flooring

look past the cat

[scott h]

53 minutes ago, Tommy T. said:

Can you tell me

ill climb into the attic and take a look at the spare box.

[GeoffH]

3 hours ago, Jack Peterson said:

When I get back from the Mountains with a Piece good enough for a Didgeridoo maybe  

 

Bamboo would be just about the worst wood possible to try and make a digeredoo from, it should be made from a very hard wood (traditionally mostly varieties of Eucalyptus branches naturally hollowed out by termites but increasingly machine and hand hollowed these days).  It will work with some other woods but it needs to be a dense hardwood of some type to even come close.

 

That's the easy part... mastering circular breathing is the hardest bit about learning to play IMHO 

[stevewool]

13 minutes ago, scott h said:

look past the cat

Thank you , so very little maintenance is needed to keep it looking good 

[Heeb]

I've installed bamboo flooring twice, I think the quality of the product makes a big difference, bamboo is bamboo yes but how it's processed by the manufacturing company makes a big difference since it's glued and compressed and if the bamboo was still green when they manufactured it you will have problems as it dries. The first install I did was a nail in tongue and groove and it was a pain to install, the tongues wood split whether I used a pneumatic or hand nailer, the other install was floating. The first one was too soft and anything scraping it or if someone walked on it with high heals it would dent very easily, the second install started splitting between the strips, because I'm so cheap I went with discounted bamboo both times....big mistake. Try running the back of your thumbnail on the surface of the bamboo to see if you can make a groove, if so it's too soft, and check a bunch of pieces to see if they are splitting anywhere.

[Tommy T.]

11 hours ago, scott h said:

this just shows a sliver of the bamboo floor, ill look for more

I see you went for a dyed bamboo. As I wrote before, supposedly the darkening makes the bamboo lose about 30% of its strength. But you sound very pleased with what you got? It looks very nice.

[Tommy T.]

12 hours ago, scott h said:

look past the cat

That's a nice colour. Is that floated or hard glued or nailed?

[Tommy T.]

@Old55 I see you are online now? Before I make a mistake, is it okay for me to post photos of some wood flooring from a hardware store that also shows the prices for the products? Thanks!

[Old55]

Sure, I don't see why not.

[Tommy T.]

5 hours ago, Old55 said:

Sure, I don't see why not.

Thanks! I try to do the right thing...

Edited July 31, 2019 by Tommy T.