Do Bamboo Floors Shrink

Engineered bamboo flooring however usually cannot be refinished.

Do bamboo floors shrink.

As bamboo is a natural material your bamboo flooring will inevitably expand and contract with changes in temperature humidity and moisture throughout the seasons. Unfortunately some companies rush their products to market failing to dry the flooring for the requisite period. Humidity affects bamboo somewhat more severely than it does hardwood flooring. If the flooring is installed in a very humid climate the moisture in the air can cause the floor planks to swell and buckle while in a dry environment the planks can shrink.

Lower quality brands improperly moisture balance their floors resulting in wet bamboo floors which over time will lose their moisture and begin to shrink especially in the wintertime. Intensive influence of a sunlight and incorrectly picked up detergents. From the constant exposure to sunlight parquet loses color saturation in other words dull and faded. In such way you can avoid the shrinking of bamboo floor.

During the colder winter months you may start to notice gaps developing between the planks of flooring. The bamboo is actually a grass basically and even if hardwood floors in theory are to suffer the same consequence in extreme cases the wooden essence of. In humid areas the planks can expand and plump up fast where in dry environments they can shrink causing cracking in both cases. The parquet made of bamboo can change the color for two reasons.

Bamboo is dimensional stable at its saturation point of about 25 30 moisture content. While bamboo is somewhat more stable then wood both are affected by water.