[elky] Re: Floor the 28th - Non
- From: Chris Lindh <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:33:11 -0500
We thought we liked exotic imported woods (Brazilian Maple, Cherry, etc.),
until we found out they all come from the rain forests.
My understanding is the stranded bamboo is made from the leftover pieces
from when they make the horizontal and vertical bamboo. Bamboo is a green
flooring choice, except for the fuel used to get it here.
We like our stranded bamboo; it is that same dark color: "caramelized" /
"carbonized"; I think it they toast it to darken it, mmmmm toasted bamboo.
It's holding up well 3 years later. We did white baseboards and stained
Oak shoe moulding to match the flooring. If I were to do it again I might
do the shoe moulding white. The floor-colored shoe moulding makes the
baseboards look shorter, it is a good thing we used a taller baseboard
(which caused more problems with A/C registers). You have to watch when
handling the boards, you can get a wicked splinter.
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