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The Power Of Bamboo Floors
Bamboo is one of the most amazing plants on Earth. It grows at roughly one foot per day and can be harvested in only a few years. In addition, one stalk can be harvested many times and one stalk will help to create dozens of other stalks in the area over a few years.
Bamboo is truly amazing because it is used to reinforce concrete in Asia , but at the same time it is used in clothes and is as soft as silk. Many homeowners are now beginning to use bamboo in their homes, as floors.
Bamboo floors are very popular because they allow you to have a floor that looks beautiful, but is environmentally sustainable. Bamboo floors look like hardwood floors and they are just as durable.
Bamboo floors are more expensive, but they leave a much smaller environmental impact and that can mean you will walk around your house knowing the floor is made of something that did not hurt the Earth.
When timber is cut down, trees that are 30 years or older are being chopped down and no new trees grow from the chopped off trunk. This is not the case with bamboo. Bamboo will mature in about seven years at most. More importantly, bamboo can grow anywhere, from Australia and South America to Europe and the United States . It grows one foot per day without fertilizers or pesticides and it releases 35 percent of oxygen back into the air after absorbing CO2.
Some even bigger points for bamboo floors include the fact that it is resistant to insects. You will not have to worry about termites eating through your floor when you have a bamboo floor and that can save you money. As well, bamboo floors are resistant to moisture. If you live in a very humid area, your floor will not warp or distort if it is made from bamboo.
Sure bamboo floors do cost more, but that cost is well worth it because you are getting a floor that is environmentally-friendly, resistant to insects and water, and it looks great. Many people will be impressed when you show them your bamboo floor and some will even decide to get bamboo floors of their own. Can you blame them? Bamboo is the floor of the future and across the Western World, the benefits of bamboo are now being realized.