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Does anyone have bamboo flooring?

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ImSoNotTelling · 28/10/2009 13:21

Just got some samples through today!

It looks good, it's very cheap...

Is there anything else i need to know? it's for a kitchen/diner/living type area.

Would you recommend it?

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GrendelsMum · 28/10/2009 13:53

Yes, we had it and it was great. Very hard wearing, very easy to lay.

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ImSoNotTelling · 28/10/2009 14:05

Thanks grendelsmum! Does it look the business?

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Ladyem · 28/10/2009 14:13

We have the compressed strand woven bamboo flooring like this and it is sooo hard wearing! Have had it down a year and have no marks or dents in it (and we have a toddler!!) Looks great, too! I'm really pleased with it.

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Ladyem · 28/10/2009 14:14

I even spilt nail varnish remover on it and didn't make a mark!! (Phew!!)

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Elibean · 28/10/2009 14:16

Yes, in both bathrooms and loved it - hard wearing, warm underfoot, pretty!

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ImSoNotTelling · 28/10/2009 14:18

Wow am feeling a decision coming on! We were looking at wood, amtico etc but this looks great and is brilliant value!

The nail varnish remover comment is how amazing!

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Bramshott · 28/10/2009 14:18

We have it in the living room and I love it, but it scratches MUCH more easily than I thought it would. Maybe it's the slighly glossy finish ours has, but ours has a lot of small scratches on (has been down 4 years). We fitted it ourselves though and it was really easy to fit.

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ImSoNotTelling · 28/10/2009 14:19

And today I love exclamation marks!!!

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LilRedWG · 28/10/2009 14:23

We have this one and I love it.

We have it lounge/diner and hallway.

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ImSoNotTelling · 28/10/2009 14:31

Lilred that's the company we've been looking at! Also quite keen on the horizontal pattern, although craftily that isn't the style I got the samples for

bramshott scratches sound not so good... would you have got something else if you'd known, or is it one of those slightly annoying but not the end of the world things?

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LilRedWG · 28/10/2009 14:31

We have quite a few scratches in the hallway from small stones etc being walked in, but I still love it and as the MIL say, "it all adds to the character".

One tip they did give me is to never used any bleach on it as the bamboo will suck it op from the ends and bleach from within.

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LilRedWG · 28/10/2009 14:33

I would still have got even if I'd known that it scratches slightly. We also have a HUGE scratch in the lounge, but that will be because I dragged a cofa accross it, rather than wait for DH to help me move it.

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LilRedWG · 28/10/2009 14:33

BTW, the company seemed good to me - good service and advice.

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LilRedWG · 28/10/2009 14:34

Where abouts are you? If local, you can come and look at my floor if you like.

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Bramshott · 28/10/2009 14:35

Hmm - not sure. It is a lovely colour, and unusual, but the oak flooring we now have in the dining room scratches much less (but may well have been more expensive). Sorry, that's not much help is it!!

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Bramshott · 28/10/2009 14:36

Can you try scratching your sample and see how easily it scratches?

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LilRedWG · 28/10/2009 14:36

One of these keeps it nice and dust free too.

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ImSoNotTelling · 28/10/2009 14:40

Blimey robomop looks cool.

I'm in London lilred

Will scratch at samples!

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LilRedWG · 28/10/2009 14:42

Ah, bit far from me then, I'm just south of Birmingham.

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Ladyem · 28/10/2009 14:49

Lilredwig - that's where we got ours from, too!! We have carbonised stranded, not compressed as I originally put. It's super-tough!! And it is solid, so if it does get a good gouging it can be sanded. I think various manufacturers must use different finishes as ours doesn't scratch easily at all, but we looked at some in B&Q with a high polished effect and I could see how that would scratch.

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ImSoNotTelling · 28/10/2009 16:09

lilred yes I'm keen, but maybe not that keen!!!

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lukeysmummy · 28/10/2009 18:06

we got ours from b&q the worst £200 we ever spent we had it in the hall it was marked the 1st tie something heavy came through the post we have had it down for 12 months and have just taken it up last week because it is so scratched we were so disspointed we wrote a letter to the company and they got someone from b&q to come and take a look didnt get anywhere with them though

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ImSoNotTelling · 28/10/2009 19:33

Hmm mixed messages on the scratching front.

bramshott where was yours from?

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Bramshott · 28/10/2009 21:04

I tried to find that out ISNT, but I can't find a record - sorry! It wasn't B & Q though - it was somewhere online. It might however, be a satin finish rather than matt on ours.

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ImSoNotTelling · 29/10/2009 09:08

Thanks ever so much for looking bramshott. I'll be on the alert for scratchiness factor when we have a proper look.

Thanks everyone

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