The basic characteristics of a bamboo are fast growth (to 10-15 m a year), high flexibility, durability, ecological compatibility. We will notice that about 30 % from all territory of China make bamboo groves, and this material is very cheap in home market of Heavenly Empire.
The production technology
The bamboo trunk is cut lengthways on the narrow strips which are not containing cross-section caps. Strips steam out, straightened and prepared in the form of sheets which stick together among themselves, and then from this preparations directly ready product is made.
The bamboo floors happens horizontal and vertical, it depends on technology of pressing of stalks: horizontal and vertical. At horizontal pressing drawing turns out with characteristic . The vertical parquet has the drawing as though collected from narrow strips.
From a bamboo make a parquet board and a bamboo file. The parquet board consists of three layers stuck together among themselves, the top layer is made of a bamboo, the file is executed entirely from this material.
The bamboo file and parquet board have an unusual appearance, pleasant colour and are carried out basically in two colours – white (natures) and coffee (brown). The brownish shade is reached in process a material. In the chamber where a bamboo, put capacity with ammonia. Ammonia, reacting with a bamboo, gives it a brownish shade.
Processing by a varnish
For prevention of occurrence of scratches and the greatest preservation of quality the parquet board and a bamboo file become covered by varnishes with the raised level of protection. Processing of a surface of bamboo coverings is made by universal varnishes for wood, they are elastic, therefore breaks and breaches of a floor covering are reduced to a minimum, and wood remains safe. It is in total put about 5-6 layers of first coats together with varnishes.
Floor coverings from a bamboo
Demand for bamboo floor coverings does not depend on degree of shine of a material. Bamboo floors happen glossy, semiglossy (semimatte), matte.
Operation and leaving
While in service the bamboo floors properly processed by varnishes and first coats, long are not used up, the covering turns out firm and durable. However in the world as a whole there is no long operating experience of bamboo floors. Professional restoration of a bamboo floor covering at us in the country is not conducted, but if there was such necessity, to address to experts all the same follows.
But nevertheless, how correctly to look after bamboo floor coverings? Firms-manufacturers answer and on this question. As the bamboo has fibrous structure, it cannot be processed by ordinary grinding car for a parquet. Cars at which circles do not rotate are for this purpose used, and clean off, scratch out a thin top layer.
While in service the bamboo floor does not differ from classical wooden coverings, is possible both damp cleaning, and dry, it does not influence consumer qualities of a material.
The turn of bamboo floor coverings in Russia is not great yet, according to experts, of all sold floor coverings only 1-2 % are made by a bamboo, and it, you see, the smallest figure. Nevertheless, experts mark gradually growing interest to the given kind of production and hope that sales shortly considerably will increase.
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