How To Install Solid Bamboo Wood Floors

Hardwood flooring installation is a big project but you can install solid hardwood floors yourself to save money with this step by step video.

How to install solid bamboo wood floors.

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. If your current subfloor is concrete you will only be able to install engineered flooring not solid hardwood. Step 1 measure moisture content.

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. Floating the floor using uniclic flooring. There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo. To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors.

You must determine the amount of moisture in the plywood. This can easily be done using a moisture test kit which is available at hardware and super stores. 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. Engineered is actually produced with three to five layers of hardwood.

Solid bamboo hardwood flooring is installed like any hardwood flooring. 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. Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor. In this case we settled on a dark distressed bamboo hardwood.

Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood.