How To Install Bamboo Flooring On Wood

Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor.

How to install bamboo flooring on wood.

Check with adhesive manufacture for recommendations on sealer removal. Use a transition strip between the two flooring types to cover the gap. 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. To view part 1 click here.

Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2. 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. 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. Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood.

We recommend using bostik mapei or morning star adhesives that are designed for use with solid bamboo floors. The sealer will have to be removed before continuing with the glue down installation of wood flooring. The nail needs to go in at an angle so it isn t in the way of the next board image 2. How to install bamboo flooring on top of a wood subfloor bamboo flooring flooring installation care 5 comments 5 so you ve weighed all the pros and cons of bamboo flooring chosen your perfect material and now you re ready to install it.

Quality bamboo flooring costs 5 to 8 per square foot which is about the same as common hardwood flooring like oak and maple. In this case we settled on a dark distressed bamboo hardwood. There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo.