Like any high involvement decision, choosing your bamboo flooring requires meticulous planning and detailed understanding of what the market has to offer. From the starting point of needing a floor covering to the final possible touches of polishing an installed floor, process information is aplenty and sifting through this ocean is not an easy job. So if you have got through the initial checkpoint of choosing between bamboo flooring and hardwood flooring and have decided to go with the former, you are probably going to need some help taking the decision forward. So here are some of the most powerful tips to aid you in making a selection for bamboo flooring.



So where do you want to start? Budgeting for your flooring needs is the best possible origin as it will drive several auxiliary decisions down the line. How much is bamboo flooring going to cost you? That depends on two factors – the area that needs to be covered and the type of bamboo flooring. If you have a living room of say 150 square feet (sq.ft), you could be looking at spending anywhere between $280 to $1200 depending on the type of bamboo that you would be using. What this means is that per square feet of flooring space that has to be covered, it could cost from $1.8 to $8 at the top end.



A significant factor affecting the cost of the bamboo flooring is the proliferation of the particular type of bamboo and the coating that’s being used. Rare Brazilian bamboos will obvious set you back much more than common bamboo. When it comes to coating, the aspect normally under discussion is UV coating for the bamboo flooring. The most popular brand available in the market today is possibly Klump Lacquer, widely known for its ability to stand the test of time against surface aberrations and also for the minimal use of dangerous chemicals. This factor of coating will determine price more than other design specifications such as whether you want to be using a vertically grained pattern or a horizontal pattern.



In laying the flooring, (sometime true for hardwood flooring also), you could opt to use a floating mechanism which is basically just interlocking the bamboo with clickable locks. You would use this option, where your existing floor has already been made ready for mounting i.e. its level, clean and smoothened. This option is cheap if you want to get into the laying yourself. For the control headed, other options such as gluing, stapling or nailing present themselves as viable alternatives. If you don’t have a head for such type of work, its strongly recommended that you go in for prefinished floors than ones which require on site intervention post installation.



Color is a key driver as well for bamboo flooring. You can choose natural shades and you can choose modified shades, depending on your taste for either. Be it gunstock or red cognac, plain vanilla lightwood or carbonized bamboo, the choice is entirely yours. High on beauty and low on the pocket, bamboo flooring is surely going to make every step you take on it, a moment of pleasure!

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