Young shoots from this valuable plant are used for food, a good cloth is made of bamboo weights, from it Asians construct dwellings, make ornaments, curtains, various hand-made articles. But modern industry has gone even further, starting to use bamboo for the floor, releasing quite good parquet from it.
How do bamboo floors?
It is clear that this plant is different from oak or pine, you can not cut a board from it. In the course are 4 or 5-year-old stems. Sugar is removed from them, then the raw materials are degreased, sterilized and dried. At the last stage, bamboo is split, getting fibers, and pressed. Quality parquet of bamboo consists only of pressed multi-layered wood, varnished, it does not contain harmful substances. The structure of natural parquet can be horizontal and vertical. It all depends on how the bars are pressed. In the first case, they are laid in parallel, and the pattern on the parquet imitates the stems, and in the second case, they are placed on the face before compression, receiving a slightly different structure.
Bamboo flooring - the pros and cons
Benefits:
- high strength;
- durability of the coating (manufacturer's warranty up to 30 years);
- density is not inferior to wood;
- resistance to deformation;
- good antistatic properties;
- additional sound and heat insulation of the room;
- treated bamboo is not susceptible to microorganisms and harmful insects.
Disadvantages:
- a meager assortment - only two types of structure;
- the moisture resistance is somewhat low, which makes its use undesirable in wet rooms;
- Sometimes there were complaints about the rapid erasure of the top layer, so it is desirable after 5 years to grind and re-varnish the parquet from bamboo;
- numerous forgery, which are in the composition of harmful chemistry, it is difficult to visually distinguish when buying.
There is one cunning way that manufacturers of fake parquet use. They buy to produce a coating on the floor, not quality bamboo, but pressed chips, adding resin, varnish, fillers. Externally, the coating looks excellent, but inside there are so many harmful substances that it was completely forbidden to use in Western countries. Therefore, never interfere with the documentation of the parquet and ask its manufacturer.
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