Despite their and warm feel underfoot wood and bamboo floors are not recommended for use in full bathrooms for a variety of reasons the most notable of these is that wood is not a waterproof material and bathrooms are pretty much guaranteed to be a very wet environment.
How to install bamboo floor in flowing multiple rooms.
A step by step guide on how to install tongue and groove bamboo flooring over underlay.
If the flooring abuts a different kind of wooden or tile flooring leave a one inch gap between the bamboo flooring and the other flooring.
Before you start decide on the best direction to run the flooring and how to transition from room to room.
Select flooring from several cartons to mix color grain and shade.
A useful guide and tips on installing bamboo flooring.
If you have a plan you ll create a flow both in the installation and in the appearance.
Flowing into other rooms.
Floating the floor using uniclic flooring.
Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor.
Use spline or slip tongue to continue the flooring in the opposite direction form your starting point.
Hardwood and bamboo flooring can be installed in powder rooms half baths containing just a washbasin and toilet.
The nail needs to go in at an angle so it isn t in the way of the next board image 2.
Discard twisted or warped boards.
Install the flooring parallel to the longest wall or foundation wall in the room.
I like to start large or multiple room installations in the middle of the largest run which also helps in the expansion factor of your flooring.
Keep the flooring straight using a chalk line install flooring with the tongue side facing the starting wall.
There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo.
Use a transition strip between the two flooring types to cover the gap.
A useful guide and tips on installing bamboo flooring.
When the installation falls into other rooms without any breaks or the flooring flows from one room to another it gets a little tricky.
Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2.
Do not apply over radiant heated floor systems.
Wood floors flow into other rooms.