Thread: BAMBOO FLOOR

Originally Posted by trog

Would you recommend them for a flat ? Not sure if it will become a rental or not, so looking at options other than carpet.

They are far harder than australian hardwood. They will scratch without care, but its unlikely they will ever get damaged (unless you burn or flood them).

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by trog

Would you recommend them for a flat ? Not sure if it will become a rental or not, so looking at options other than carpet.

As Shane said they are hard , can scratch ,( you can buy some oil from the supplier to put on scratches to blend the scratches in ) The flooring does not like water so have to be careful moping it . We always use a cup of metho in the water to help dry the floor faster & try to wring out as much water as we can so as not to get the floor too wet.
I am not sure it is the best flooring for a flat that you are going to rent out , a lot of tenants would not look after the floor . I would be looking at some of the vinal flooring , there are some nice designs around now & some of it looks like wood. My brother just had it put in his new house thinks it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Gday I've been laying flooring for over 10 years now. This is the 1st time I've ever heard of bamboo being glued down how old are the boards? Is it normal T&G like solid wood flooring? Or is it a click lock system? Either way you can replace individual boards you just need to cut the bottom half of the groove off and glue the board down in place.
Split the poo boards in the guts with a chisel or set the depth of a power saw to 12mm and lever out.
If you replace it with another floater make sure it's a click lock system and not a glue together or glue down system they age notorious for buckling. Expansion joins in doorways help but are ugly. And always leave the biggest gap possible under your skirts you can cut the plaster to gain another 10mm if you really need to, if you have 12mm skirts instead of 19mm skirts.

The floor has been down 7 years , it is T& G solid like normal floor boards. Our problem now is the insurance Co has now decided they want us to except a cash payout for about 10% of the floor after the accessor telling us they would replace all the floor except one bedroom as they don't want to do the job so we now have to find someone to do it also in there offer there in no offer to repait the damage to the kitchen cupboards & were the floor has pushed the cupboards up & damaged the cealing . We have been told by a flooring co that we will never be able to match the colour. I have rang a number of people about doing the job but only one turned up & never came back with an quote. I have also been advised by the timber floor association it would be best to remove all the flooring & lay it as a floating floor & they do nor recommend glueing it. Since this has happned I have spoken to people who have had similar problems & all of them the floor has been glued. The way I se it if it is layed as a floating floor it can expand , if it is glued it only has one way it can go & that is up.
I am now trying to get quotes for all the damage so I can try to get mor money out of the insurance co.

Yeah insurance companies are thieves. I used to do repairs for them and the money was terrible. We could always push for more money for extras and unforeseen problems. So you should be able to push them.

If you are a DIY'er do it yourself. They have done all the undercuts for you already the hardest part is getting the boards up. Just look at the way they cut the boards under tge door jambs to get an idea of how it's done.
The glue shouldn't be hard to get off its like rubber a nice sharp scraper will smash it
As for the boards try and get a 5g system (5th generation) it's the latest clik together. It's so easy to work with compare to others. You won't be bashing them trying to get them to click.

Hope you can squeeze some more coin out of them good luck with it all!

Thanks for the advice .
Managed to get a verbal quote today to pull up floor & grind slab between $8000 & $9000 . Not sure what we are going to replace the bamboo with but it won' t be bamboo & will not be glued. They are coming out Friday to do written quote to pull up the floor & bringing out some samples for us to look at. Also had the people who made the kitchen cupboards out today to have a look & work a quote to repair the damaged to the cupboards.

That's quite a lot of money to be honest with you how many square meters is the floor? For that price they should be polishing it also lol. Is the insurance company paying for the cupboards?

Originally Posted by LRJim

That's quite a lot of money to be honest with you how many square meters is the floor? For that price they should be polishing it also lol. Is the insurance company paying for the cupboards?

There are 3 x bedrooms hall way, kitchen / dining room /rumpus room ( all one room) , formal lounge & dining room & entry. At this stage the are not showing in there offer repairs to cupboards. I am getting quotes for all repairs & going back to insurance co for a second offer . Also there is nothing in the offer for removal & storage of furniture , painting after skirting boards are removed & refitted & accom while job is being done. I don't expect them to pay for replacing the whole floor but i think they should be paying to replace all the floof in each of the rooms affected by water damage from the fridge board burning out turning water dispensor on & flooding 3 of the rooms plus damage to kitchen cupboards .