Bamboo is largely considered as one of the planets fastest-growing plants; some species can stretch up to a 3 feet in a single day. It is an enticing option because bamboo is just as strong as all of the existing hardwoods. It is a smart option because it resembles the qualities of hardwood at a lesser price. Finally, it is also sustainable due to the abundant obtainability and fast regeneration. While becoming a popular choice for floorings in homes and businesses today, bamboo flooring has the potential to be resilient, cost-efficient, and environmentally friendly.
Durability
Bamboo flooring is extremely durable; it is as solid as any hardwood flooring currently on the market. Depending on what part of the plant the floor is harvested from, it can even be sturdier than hardwoods like maple and oak. According to Nigel F. Maynard from Builder Online, he states, “Hardness is the main factor in durability” (Maynard, 2010). There are two different types of Bamboo flooring; stranded and vertical. Studies show that stranded bamboo is much stronger than the vertical bamboo flooring. Mark D. Elwell, owner and operator of Bamboo Flooring Hawaii in Honolulu, says, “On a hardness scale, the vertical bamboo plank is around 1,450 P.S.I. on a Janka Hardness Scale”. He then states, “The stranded bamboo is compressed and bonded with strong adhesives so the scale is over 3,000 P.S.I.” (Elwell, 2010). As a result, stranded bamboo flooring averages out to be 25 percent harder than red oak and 12 percent harder than North American maple. The durability makes it dent-resistant but does not make it heavy. Therefore, the flooring will not shrink or expand like other hardwoods as long ...
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...ger to regenerate. At the same time, logs are sawn to produce planks and boards, so a certain amount of waste is involved in the production of the hardwood floors. With the rate that the Earth is becoming depleted with hardwood, there will be a cutbacks and eventually an increase of the price because there will not be enough hardwood to sell competitively in the future. A bamboo plant absorbs carbon dioxide and releases 35 percent more oxygen into the atmosphere than a single hardwood tree. In these environmentally conscious times, renewable flooring sources like bamboo are favored over many of the hardwoods.
Conclusion
Bamboo flooring does have countless burdens of green potential. It also comes with its share of many beneficial advantages. Bamboo flooring has the potential to be naturally sturdy, economically efficient, and it helps to preserve the environment.
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The papermaking process begins with pulp. Pulp is cellulosic fibrous material extracted from cellulosic fiber from wood. Glatfelter uses the Kraft Process to make both hardwood and softwood pulps. Hardwood pulps are taken from oaks, beeches, poplars, birches and eucalyptus tress. They have short fibre of average length of 1 millimeter. The primary purpose of hardwoods is for the paper to achieve bulkiness, smoothness and opacity. Softwood on the other hand is taken from pine and spruce with long fibre averaging 3 millimeters, it provides addition strength to paper. Both softwood and hardwood are produce independently of each other and are mixed end at desire ratio in the paper plant. The process starts from wood chips. Trees are chipped to make wood chips from half an inch to an inch long and up to two fifth inches thick. The chips are feed into a digester, which with cooking liquor would create a chemical reaction, which delignificate the wood. The cooking liquor is composed of white and black liquor. White liquor is composed of mainly sodium hy...
There are many reasons why a floor could be less than safe; the fact is that usually a slippery floor is an easy fix. Anti-slip tape is almost always the go to solution; it is cost effective and can help make any surface a safer surface.
Bed of nails is originated at India and the practice is used today as primarily form of entertainment in festivals, shows and other events meant to surprise and impress the audience. A nail can certainly be harmful, but a certain amount of force can be applied to a nail head before pain takes place. A person’s weight can spread out over many nails and feel no pain. If a person lay on a bed of nail, the person’s weight is more or less evenly distributed on a nail. Since each nail undergoes a small amount of weight, the person experienced no pain. The general purpose of this study is to find out why some people can lay safely on a bed of nail without getting injured and prevent skin damage.
In Mark Morford’s “American Kids, Dumber than Dirt” the article is somewhat of a warning to our society about future generations. I think Mark Morford wants to show how kids are continuing to become less educated and how it continues to grow worse throughout the years. The effects of kids becoming more uneducated is influenced by several factors. Factors including a school system that fails to teach, technology taking over kids minds, and the failure to have common knowledge. But with all of the negative factors, he shows how some kids have been and can be beneficial to society. Even if there is only a little bit of hope, he wants to inform readers that there is still hope that there are kids out there
Taking wood from rainforests and old-growth forests is detrimental to the environment and society. However, it is possible for us to have sustainable wood if we make an effort.
The choice of wood also affects the violin's acoustical properties. Traditionally, violin makers used spruce and maple fr...
Before one can even begin to understand the way in interpellation and social history influence Ozaki story “The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon-Child”. This a fascinating story of an old bamboo cutter who was poor and sad for he had no child to call his own. One morning as usual he went out and found a nice spot and started cutting some down. Then he saw the bright light coming from on the bamboo’s and found a tiny girl inside the size of his hand. He brought her home and the couple were extremely happy. After three months the girl grew into a full size women and her step-parents decided to name her Princess Moonlight. They had a party and invited everyone they knew to celebrate their new daughter. After the party the word of her beauty spread far
The fresh lumber used to make wood shafts is completely dried and treated in building-sized kilns to prevent the wood from warping after manufacture. Then, logs are cut into thin sheets of wood by feeding them through multi-bladed saw. The thin sheets of wood and multiple layers of carbon fiber are coated with Nano resin adhesives and are hot pressed...
The type of wood used to create a wand is one of the most important aspects of the wand’s potential affinities for its future owner. There are over 30 types of woods that can be used to make wands
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Timber and especially hardwoods like mahogany and ebony are being felled at an alarming rate to satisfy the needs of the swiftly developing world. Another problem for the forest areas of the world is the type of agriculture used by some peasant farmers known as "slash & burn". This method of farming involves the burning of trees to add to the initial supply of nutrients in the soil. Over time this supply slowly wares down and so the farmer once again moves onto another plot of trees to slash and burn.
middle of paper ... ... These grotesque or animal-like trunks and root formations are still highly prized today. Chinese bonsai come from the landscape of images of fiery dragons and coiled serpents; this takes far greater precedence over natural beauty unlike the Japanese. The Japanese focus on using native species for their bonsai, namely pines, azaleas and maples (regarded as the traditional bonsai plants).
Material selection is among one of the most important aspects that must be taken into account before any hanging mechanism is produced. This is because material plays an important role in determining the suitability and durability of the hanging mechanism design. Nowadays, more advanced materials have been used to replace conventional materials because advanced materials offer more advantages (Myrdal, 2009). For instance in furniture manufacturing, conventional material such as solid wood have been replaced with alternative lumber such as particle board, plywood, glulam, LVL or OSB because of their economic and production efficiencies.
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