[TheForge] bamboo redux

[craig.schaefer at verizon.net]

You really don't want to nail it down in most cases, because that WILL cause splitting.  Best to let the floor acclimate for a month or more before laying it.  That way it does all it's shrinking first.

CraigS
Gresham, OR

>From: ljudes at verizon.net
>Date: 2008/01/21 Mon PM 10:32:52 CST
>To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] bamboo redux

>From: lee robbins <naturadoc1 at yahoo.com>
>  I'm thinking of
>putting down some
> Moso 
>by the creek for commercial purposes
>
>not until global warming big time will i be able to
>grow any bamboo near my place, i envy the moso. even
>the -20F hardy fountain bamboo f.nitida died here 
>
>Lee
>========================================================
>
>I like bamboo, too, and put some in my family room.  It shrank a good one inch, side-to-side.  Caused me lotsa problems.  I think the reason was 'cause it was not acclimated to my area.  I live in the desert and the humidity is usually about 10-15 percent.  After a year and a half, it has finally stopped shrinking and is not stable, but I have cracks/spaces in a couple of places.  Depending on where you live and the "atmosphere" in your house, you might consider the plywood substrate with bamboo on top.
>
>This is just what happened to me.  Hope yours works out better.
>
>Oh, by the way, mine was installed as a "floating floor."  Each piece was edge-glued to the piece next to it, layed on a rubber matting material, so it could expand and shrink at will.  Problem is, the floor is wide enough that the glue didn't hold in the center.  So there was separation because the "piece" was just so big that the glue failed when the shrinking pulled so hard and the flooring kinda stuck to the rubber matting.  Nailing to a good subfloor might solve that problem.
>
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