Engineered bamboo flooring offers the consumer several advantages over other types of hardwood flooring. First of all, bamboo is an environmentally friendly product due to many factors. It can be harvested annually, it doesn’t require replanting and it is harvestable after only five years. This makes it a building material that can be used more often than those usually used in hardwood flooring. Just the planting of bamboo helps the earth by increasing biomass, reducing greenhouse gases and removing toxins from contaminated soils.

Engineered bamboo offers many advantages in your home as well. They are more durable than other forms of hardwood flooring and will resist cupping. Bamboo flooring is known for its resistance to moisture but engineered bamboo has shown to be even more effective in this area.

Due to the boom of the bamboo flooring market there has been an influx of poor bamboo material. The quality of the bamboo can affect several factors such as the durability of the flooring. If harvested too early bamboo isn’t nearly as sturdy or resistant to moisture. And even more troubling is the fact that large amounts of formaldehyde are used in low quality bamboo to make up for this lack of durability. Formaldehyde is used in the adhesives of most bamboo flooring and is considered toxic. Unfortunately, the use of formaldehyde is not governed in many areas outside the United States.

This shows that just as important as the type of bamboo you get is where you get the bamboo from. The following are a few of the brands that I’ve found to have the highest quality of engineered bamboo.

Yanchi employs high end technology and skilled craftsmen dedicated to defining excellence in the production of bamboo flooring. The manufacturing processes meet and exceed rigorous international production standards, making Yanchi bamboo flooring a name to trust when seeking to source the highest quality in volume.

Teragren, unlike many bamboo suppliers, Teragren develops and manufactures all their own bamboo floor products. They directly control manufacturing—and product quality—from one source from harvest to distribution, guaranteed since 1994.

LM Flooring offers engineered bamboo flooring that is both durable and attractive, and are available in a number of styles so you can find the perfect type to match your current décor or create an entirely new look.
These are just some of the brands that I’ve found to be dependable and reliable in the past. All of these brands are available at FloorMall.