How To Install Solid Bamboo Wood Floors

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.

How to install solid bamboo wood floors.

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. There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo. Step 1 measure moisture content. Hardwood flooring installation is a big project but you can install solid hardwood floors yourself to save money with this step by step video.

To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors. Solid bamboo hardwood flooring is installed like any hardwood flooring. Wood floor installation requires a level subfloor and that your hardwood flooring is acclimated to the room s humidity and temperature according to the manufacturer s guidelines. If your current subfloor is concrete you will only be able to install engineered flooring not solid hardwood.

This can easily be done using a moisture test kit which is available at hardware and super stores. It can be nailed stapled and or glued to a solid subfloor or an existing hardwood floor in good condition. Engineered bamboo usually installed as a floating floor system with click together planks laid over a cushiony foam pad. Shaw s engineered products are made with either a plywood core or a high density fiberboard core.

Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood. You must determine the amount of moisture in the plywood. When installing a bamboo floor in your home often one of the first steps is to put in a slab of plywood over the concrete floor. In this case we settled on a dark distressed bamboo hardwood.

Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2.