How To Install Bamboo Hardwood Flooring

Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor.

How to install bamboo hardwood flooring.

To view part 1 click here. Eco friendly bamboo flooring gives a bedroom warmth and sophistication. Quality bamboo flooring costs 5 to 8 per square foot which is about the same as common hardwood flooring like oak and maple. 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.

Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2. 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. Floating the floor using uniclic flooring. The nail needs to go in at an angle so it isn t in the way of the next board image 2.

Use a transition strip between the two flooring types to cover the gap. This video is part 2 of my bamboo flooring installation tutorial video. 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.