Hello to all,
I’d like to know what plusses and minus’s anyone might have with regads to bamboo florring. Has anyone used it over radiant heat. How is it to install over radiant? Does it need any type of pad if used over radiant heat?
KaiserRoo
Hello to all,
I’d like to know what plusses and minus’s anyone might have with regads to bamboo florring. Has anyone used it over radiant heat. How is it to install over radiant? Does it need any type of pad if used over radiant heat?
KaiserRoo
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KRoo
Over radiant? On slab w/radiant, on subfloor w/radiant below, or directly over radiant hose over sub w/"heat transfer panels"?
There's a difference between the 3.
I've installed maybe 10 bamboo floors. One over gypcrete w/hose. We used a vapor barrier "pad" recommended by the supplier of the flooring. Customer had a couple places where a "stain" appeared in the fall (after a full winter of heating). A sort of deepening of the darker color in the bamboo, not large, not consistant. Supplier asked about the temp. of the water in the slab and rcvd a reply from the customer that initially (that first heating season) that the floor heat was set pretty high. Eventho the manufacturer recommended a more moderate temp in the literature, his DIY install of the heating system seems to have been the culprit. No other staining occured afterward.
This was a Teragren product (wider boards, maybe 7 inch, glued joints). No settlement offered and none very strongly pursued.
All the other bamboo installs were over regular subfloors and maybe a couple slabs (no radiant). Products were easy to install (some nailed, some glued down) and the only caution-tho it's said to be "hard", it will crush-like rolling out the frig w/o a protective 1/8" masonite under it. Dents from dropped objects, can be pet abused, small stones in those damn vibram type soles on shoes.
Goes together easily and is pretty darn stable. Make sure you open pkgs and mix the contents as color ranges widely and not so easily picked up until almost too late. Beware your supplier. We've had good luck but we've used good brands of flooring.
I would like to place it over climate panels by vega or something like that. I have seen on the Trillium web site that they will not warrenty their product if placed over radiant. What other brands of bamboo that will warrenty their product when used over radiant.
What other hard wood would be a good choice for a kitchen (installed over radiant)
KaiserRoo