Every homeowner seems to have a preference when it comes to floor. Some folks love the feel and the look of hardwood flooring. Others are partial to laminate flooring, vinyl flooring or some other material. Ultimately, a person’s preference for flooring comes down to two things: durability and look/feel.

If you’re looking for durable flooring and looks and feels great, look no further than bamboo flooring. If your local home improvement or furniture store is having a bamboo flooring sale, here’s why you need to take a second look at bamboo flooring:

• Bamboo flooring has a very high Janka rating, the test used to determine the hardness of flooring types and its resistance to wear and denting. In fact, only three types of wood flooring have a harder Janka rating than bamboo: Brazilian Teak, Tiete Chestnut, and Brazilian Walnut.
  If you’re wondering how the Janka test is done, it’s this way: the test measures the force required to embed an 11.28 millimeter (0.444 inch) steel ball into wood to half its diameter (0.222 inch). This method results in an indention 100 square millimeters in size. Strand woven bamboo and eucalyptus flooring, on average, have Janka ratings of upwards of 3,800. As a comparison, oak is about 1290 , black walnut is 1010 and santos mahogany is 2200.
• As far as look goes, bamboo flooring has a contemporary, clean look that usually outperforms other types of traditional hardwood flooring.
• Bamboo flooring is very durable, but make sure to find flooring that comes with a warranty, just in case.
• If you’re trying to more environmentally conscious, bamboo flooring is a very eco-friendly material.
• If you’re worried about insect issues with your new flooring, bamboo flooring is termite resistant.
• As far as cost goes, you can expect to pay roughly $1,000 for bamboo flooring (figuring in the cost of materials as well as the installation cost). In some cases, this can be less expensive than traditional hardwoods.
• Bamboo flooring can easily be refinished and is DIY-friendly if you’re looking to install it yourself.

One type of popular bamboo flooring is strand woven eucaplytus. This flooring is made when the bamboo fibers are compressed under extreme pressure and heat. What is created as a result is an extremely hard floor that can be easily installed in homes and commercial businesses.

If you’re got strand woven eucaplytus bamboo flooring, you’ve got flooring that’s:

• Very easily installed
• Very eco-friendly and very sustainable
• Very hard and durable (in fact strand woven eucaplytus is twice as hard as oak flooring)
• It’s usually less expensive when compared to traditional types of hardwood flooring
• Very easy to maintain from a cleaning standpoint
• Comes in a variety of colors, whether you’re looking for a natural color or a rustic color
• Is available in many styles, including tongue-and-groove flooring and quick-fit flooring

There are lots of benefits to installing strand woven eucaplytus bamboo flooring at home and many ways it can be installed. If you can find a bamboo flooring sale and you want to install strand woven eucalyptus bamboo flooring, figure out which style of flooring you want (in terms of installation method) and stock up. Once you’ve done that, carefully follow steps to install it if you’re doing it yourself or enlist the help of flooring professionals to make sure it’s done properly.