How To Install Bamboo Flooring On Wood

Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood.

How to install bamboo flooring on wood.

This video is part 2 of my bamboo flooring installation tutorial video. To view part 1 click here. Whether you select bamboo hardwood or engineered bamboo planks the flooring comes with tongue and groove fasteners that make it simple for do it yourselfers to install a floating floor. A common complaint with bamboo hardwood floors is that while they re really resilient to dings and scratches once they re installed the tongues on them can be really brittle so installing them typically requires gluing them down rather than nailing them down which can be a little messy and challenging.

Check with adhesive manufacture for recommendations on sealer removal. There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo. Floating the floor using uniclic flooring. Cheaper brands of bamboo flooring may contain glues the emit harmful vocs look for products that are guaranteed to emit no or very low amounts of vocs and that have been certified as sustainably harvested by the forest stewardship council fsc.

Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2. Quality bamboo flooring costs 5 to 8 per square foot which is about the same as common hardwood flooring like oak and maple. Use a transition strip between the two flooring types to cover the gap. Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor.

The sealer will have to be removed before continuing with the glue down installation of wood flooring. If the flooring abuts a different kind of wooden or tile flooring leave a one inch gap between the bamboo flooring and the other flooring. We recommend using bostik mapei or morning star adhesives that are designed for use with solid bamboo floors.