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Serious  Zero VOC Commercial Grade Caulks and Sealants
 

Energy EfficientZone Heater 

Takagi TanklessWater Heaters
 

Stunning Pre-fabricated Bamboo Countertops

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Bamboo Floors, Molding, Countertops, Plywood and Kitchen Accessories

Enjoy Oriental Serenity and Elegance

Do Bamboo on your floors, your walls, your furniture and on your kitchen.  Everyone seems to love walking on bamboo flooring and touching bamboo furniture.  Maybe its because of the warm, rich look or maybe its because it just feels good to hold in your hand.  Others like the fact that it is renewable.  Whatever is your reason, do some bamboo in your home and you'll love it too.

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Here are some of the amazing qualities of natural bamboo:

Highly Versatile: Bamboo is one of the most widely used plants on earth.  The split and flattened bamboo culms of this abundant versatile plant are used to produce bamboo furniture, bamboo plywood, bamboo paneling, bamboo kitchenware, bamboo cabinets, bamboo countertops, bamboo scaffolding and bamboo flooring. Designers and architects have found bamboo floors to be unique, elegant and serene, and specify it for homes, offices, hotels, and retail stores.

In the tropics it is used for constructing houses, rafts, bridges, and scaffolding; culms (trunks) of large species may be used as containers for liquids. Paper is made from bamboo pulp, and fishing rods, water pipes, musical instruments, and chopsticks from other parts. Many varieties of bamboo are planted as ornamentals and young shoots are eaten as a vegetable.  But that's not all.

Strong and Stable: Bamboo, the new product for the 21st century, is a natural and durable alternative to our limited global supply of hardwood.  It is comparable in strength to northern red oak and posses hardness 10-15% greater than maple, yet is remarkably stable with 50% less contraction and expansion than most hardwoods.

With a tensile strength superior to mild steel (it withstands up to 52,000 pounds of pressure psi) and a weight-to-strength ratio surpassing that of graphite, bamboo is the strongest growing woody plant on earth. View specifications for more detail.

Renewable and Beautiful: Bamboo is a grass, and like other grasses it has a short growth cycle of approximately five years, depending on the variety of bamboo. Unlike hardwood, with a growth cycle 3 or 4 times longer, bamboo is truly nature's renewable resource. 

But perhaps most importantly, beyond its durability and abundance, is its beauty!  The rich, warm tones of the carbonized caramel color or the light, natural hues of neutral blond color, with nature's beautiful growth patterns, grains, and growth joints inherent only in bamboo, make it truly a product that enriches the environment and value of any commercial, residential, or product application.
 
Where it grows: Bamboo is the common name for about 45 genre and over 1,000 species of perennial, woody, usually shrubby or treelike plants of the grass family. Bamboo occurs mostly in tropical and subtropical areas, from sea level to snow-capped mountain peaks, with a few species reaching into temperate areas. They are most abundant in southeastern Asia, and some species are found in the Americas and Africa, but there are none in Australia.

How it grows: The plants range from stiff reeds about 1 m (about 3 ft) tall, to giants reaching as much as 55 ft in height and 30 cm (12 in.) in diameter near the base. Most bamboo varieties are erect, but some are vine-like, producing impenetrable thickets in some areas, all of which provide a constantly renewable resource.

Some taller, wider, and harder plants, which are not a food source or habitat for Pandas, are found in East Central China. If not harvested in six years, these plants stop growing and fall down. The plant we prefer to use for our floors, Hairy Bamboo, grows up to 55 feet tall and up to 10 inches in diameter within 4-6 years. Unlike wood trees, the diameter of bamboo will not enlarge as it grows. The bamboo tree culm (trunk) will grow only slightly larger than the bamboo shoot.

A bamboo plant varies in hardness from top to bottom. The bottom 15% to 20% of the plant is the hardest portion and is used primarily for flooring. In a fully grown Hairy Bamboo, this can amount to 10 feet. The closer it grows to the ground, the harder the product. Planks from this bottom section are very dense, heavy, and difficult to saw, but this makes it ideal for flooring.

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