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[Home] [Compressed String] [Vertical Cut] [Horizontal Cut] [Commercial] [Click-Lock][Installation Guide] Bamboo FlooringA sustainable alternative that is superior to traditional timber flooring. Bamboo flooring costs less and is available in a number of different styles that will give you a floor you will be amazed with. Join the 2400+ owners of these terrific bamboo flooring productsAbout Bamboo's Sustainability We have been in the sustainable business for nine years now. After deciding that there was a need to offer home owners an alternative to traditional timber that still "did the job" but was a lot gentler on the environment, without a price premium. The community awareness over this time has increased dramatically. Over the last two to three years in particular we have seen a much stronger awareness from the mainstream consumer being prepared to look at our products and choose bamboo. In regard to sustainable building products adhering to a formalised standard for sustainability - at this stage there is no minimum requirement or standard that I am aware of. So the market can be confused by the sustainability tag. As far as price is concerned, a similar grade hardwood timber floor will normally cost you 15 to 25% more than our premium grade boards. Better Homes and Gardens decided to compare all the ‘timber’ flooring options on the market to give their readers and viewers and unbiased opinion on what they felt would be the best option for you the home maker when you wanted to upgrade your flooring to a new ‘timber’ floor. They compared all the usual alternatives, laminates, engineered flooring, solid timber floor boards and bamboo flooring. We were unaware at the time that there was a comparison being performed! All we were told was they wanted to do an article on the merits of bamboo flooring. Our task was to supply and install a floor to a small apartment in Sydney that they would like to film and comment on in their magazine and tv show. When we received our copy of the magazine and realised they had performed an exhaustive comparison, we were pleasantly surprised to find, that in their opinion our floors were the best alternative when you are looking for a premium hard wood floor! We do the installation in Sydney and we have very good installers in Melbourne (we have been using them for three years) who can go to peoples homes for a final inspection and manage the whole process. The purchase is managed regularly from Coffs Harbour, we send people samples, do quotes from plans, or visit the site but exclude the middle man and keep the process efficient.
Sustainable Bamboo Flooring looks at the whole picture Bamboo is a plant that grows 20 metres in four months and during the growth phase it is the greatest carbon sink known to man (it converts carbon dioxide into oxygen). Bamboo grows where it's too steep for other plants to grow, when it's 5 years old the plant is ready to harvest and no one is required to plant the replacement tree as bamboo shoots from the roots as soon as the old plant is cut. This gives a replacement cycle of just five years rather than 30 to 150 years for most timber products. Without the need for someone to replant (a major issue for hardwood forests as the practice of clear felling means they log and go). Another point to note is that most of the bamboo is utilized in finished products - trapping the carbon in the plant, rather than burning off the branches and leaves as they do when clear felling (clear felling contributes up to 25% of the total carbon emission into atmosphere worldwide).
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