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Product Pros and Cons: Hardwood Flooring vs. Bamboo

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Real Estate Agent with F.C.TuckerEmge Realtors, LLC

Should you stick with the old or go with the (relatively) new?

 

By Nigel F. Maynard

Wood is one of the most loved flooring material in the home building and buying universe. Prized for its exceptional good looks and warmth, wood is highly versatile and sustainable. In the past 10 years, however, there has been a great disturbance in the force, and now wood has an able and extremely popular challenger: bamboo.

Though bamboo has had a limited history in the U.S. construction market, it has been widely used in East Asia and the South Pacific. One of the oldest building materials known to man, it has been used to build fences, houses, and furniture, and has even been known to hold up suspension bridges.

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Brenda Hughes
Evansville Home Staging & Re-Design - Evansville, IN
Home Staging & Re-Design Southern IN, KY

Rolando I love the look of Bamboo flooring, you can have a different look depending on if it is cut vertical or horizontal.  It is harder than any other hardwood and it is unique in design and

that is one of the things that interests me too, I like having something different than the Jones'

Many of my cliients in Dallas were directed to the different looks of Bamboo:)

Oct 07, 2010 01:14 PM