One of the big challenges we experience regarding our Eco-Logic Bamboo products, is that other products are often marketed as “Green” when in fact the products are not green. The industry term for this is called “greenwashing“. So how do you KNOW whether a product is REALLY green?
Posts Tagged ‘solid wood flooring’
Why does FSC Certification matter?
October 29th, 2009
Is Bamboo flooring really hard?
September 22nd, 2009There have been criticisms that bamboo flooring isn’t as hard as claimed, that after a short time the floor is dented and scratched and looks awful. What say we?
Some of these criticisms are well founded – suppliers advertise their flooring being as hard as Maple flooring, or harder than Oak flooring, trying to sell bamboo flooring based on it’s hardness alone (there are tons of other reasons to buy bamboo flooring). So what are the facts about the hardness of bamboo flooring?
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Tongue & Groove or Click Lock?
September 17th, 2009
Laminated Solid Bamboo - Click-Lock with pre-installed underlay
Click Lock systems were initially popularised with laminate flooring systems. Their big sell was that they reduced the cost and increased the simplicity of an installation. A number of designs have been patented, but the most common tend to be UniClick and Valinge. When Engineered flooring started becoming popular, the obvious choice for installation was to use a click lock system.
Potential shortage of lumber
August 11th, 2009According to Niel Poland (MD of Mullican Wood), we could be seeing a shortage of hard woods as early as January 2010. He says the US hardwood harvests have declined by 50% in the last 10 years.
Here is a copy of the audio interview.
