Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Porter D Flooring options 10Jul 14, 2007 4:00 pm uncle-ant
Am in process of researching bamboo flooring. Re flooring, the choice of product on ebay is vertical or horizontal and is short-board. We visited Bamboo Australia on Sunshine Coast and looked at all their products which are longer (1.8m), as well as the types mentioned above they also have Moso which seems to be another name for the woven which is made by completely breking up the bamboo fire and compessing it, this produces the toughest product. It seems pot luck with the colour as every batch is different, they buy in 500 m3 lots and will send u a sample, and it is a matter of waiting til they get a batch in that u like within the product type u have chosen. Regards laying, there are sites giving instr. on glueing directy onto concrete but they advised to lay on a 3mm underlay i.e. floating floor to allow the timber to move.(ask builder to leave 18mm gap floor/skirting. It would be good to hear from someone who has laid it. Cheers seak Re: Porter D Flooring options 11Jul 15, 2007 11:48 pm Hi penjay and seak
I have changed my mind on the flooring type altogether now after receiving some honest information from a salesperson. The flooring I was considering had a wear layer of 4mm with a gloss coating. It turns out that this coating is nowhere near as tough as what would be put down on a pollished floor, ie two-pack or polyurethane. It actually scratches fairly easily. I have found a laminate that has 25 year guarentee and just won't scratch. The supplier I went to had both types on display and gave me a sample of each with a stanely knife. The flooring with the gloss finish and wear layer could be scratched very easily, and immediately I thought of kids with toys or chairs being dragged across the floor. The laminate could not be scratched, and I put a bit more pressure on the sample to try it too. This was good enough for me, and was less that half the cost of the flooring I had first considered. This flooring uses HDF, and is not like the cheap imports that use MDF. I guess it pays to shop around and ask lots of questions. I had been sold on the dearer flooring by three other suppliers, the price range was from $41.00 - $105.00 sqm. Tony Hi there, I'm a conplete newbie to this, but I'm looking to put a floor down in my 6x9m shed. It's currently sitting on a 100mm thick concrete perimeter (dirt floor… 0 6468 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12345 Standard uninsulated double brick has an R value of around 0.7. An insulated standard 90mm stud timber frame can have an R value of around 2.7. Even if you insulate a… 17 12071 |