Characteristics and applications of bamboo floors

October 9th, 2009

Bamboo floor manufacturers and sellers promote its durability as well as resistance to insects and moisture. Bamboo has also gained a reputation as an eco-friendly, highly renewable source of material, as the bamboo plant (technically a grass) reaches maturity in considerably less time than the trees used to make wood floors. The United States Green Building Council’s LEED program allows points for the use of bamboo floors by virtue of it being a rapidly-renewable resource. However, controversy exists over agricultural and manufacturing issues related to the production of Bamboo flooring, including the environmental effects of deforestation in order to plant bamboo and the use of carcinogenic chemicals such as urea-formaldehyde in the glues used for lamination in some products.

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