Bamboo flooring is truly the new kid on the block in the hardwood flooring market. Bamboo floors are a relatively unknown species to most consumers, this due in most part to the the limited availability in flooring markets. This environmentally friendly floor possesses remarkable qualities, especially when compared to other more popular wood types.

Bamboo flooring is for instance, as hard as Maple (one of the hardest woods on the market), and 50% more stable and harder than Red Oak. Unlike other hardwood products, it needs no finish work at all and is factory prefinished with a state-of-the-art UV resistant varnish that requires absolutely no sanding, staining or filling.

Bamboo flooring 'education' starts by taking consumers and replacing the 'shoots and stalks' mental images they naturally have, and replacing them with a true vision of technologically advanced floorcovering. Bamboo floors disadvantage can be illustrated this way. Mention hardwood and people don't think of a tall tree in some forest, they immediately conjure up images of a beautiful Oak plank floor in a family room with a burning fire in a fireplace reflecting on it's brilliant shiny finish. Mention Bamboo, and people instantly picture tall stalks of green grass in some rice paddy in Laos. True, Bamboo is a grass (not a wood), but this is truly advantageous due in large part to the plentiful bounty and sheer number of species (more than 1000) available worldwide.  The raw product can be re-harvested every 4 to 5 years making it an extremely environmentally friendly product by helping preserve our forests.