http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo Notes and Discussions about Bamboo Floors and Green Building Too Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:48:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey Everyone - Rob Jones here. Just to let you know, we've moved the posts of this blog to blog.builddirect.com. And this is also where future posts will be published. Really, it's like we've moved next door - not too far away. So, if you're a subscriber to this blog, ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=112 There has been a lot of important discussion surrounding how various brands/types of bamboo flooring are rated for emissions.  I should say this, that my research on this is still ongoing, only because I've heard a lot of talk about how some kinds of bamboo flooring have zero emissions. If ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=105 Happy New Year, bamboo junkies! Not too long ago, I wrote a post about bamboo laptops which at the time I thought was an unusual product.  Yet, since then I've seen quite a few examples of this example of old-world technology meeting with new.  And it seems that the use of ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=104 You've heard of Dancing with the Stars?  Well, how about Dancing with Bamboo? OK, not the same thing at all. But, I found this article about traditional bamboo dance from the Li people who live in Hainan Province, China. The Li people number in the millions, with their own distinct identity which includes ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=103 In the flooring industry, there are designated tests to place each type of wood flooring on scale of which is the softest to the hardest.  A point which all bamboo flooring sellers make, including us here at BuildDirect, is that bamboo floors are comparable to many species of hardwood for ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=102 Look out!  More puns! Bamboo knocks it out of the park again (there it is), showing its versatility in yet another field (there's another) of human activity; the American national pastime of baseball. Traditionally, sports equipment makers have turned to white ash hardwood for making baseball bats.  Yet, in the interests of ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=101 I can't resist a pun, so forgive the title.  But, there's something about the pen being mightier than the sword which seems to bring out the pun in everyone.  When I say everyone, maybe I should say that I mean me.  But, I'm sure there are others.  Well, not exactly ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=100 One thing we're noticing here at BuildDirect is that bamboo flooring is really coming into its own, not as something of a substitute for hardwood, but in a league by itself. Most of this enthusiasm is spearheaded by homeowners looking to use sustainable materials in their projects. Sustainability is becoming ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=99 Hey everyone! When you're around building materials, talk about them a lot, and are generally proud of the company you work for, when your stuff gets on TV show you respect it's like watching your kid in a school pageant!  Well, not completely like that, but you get the idea. We donated ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=97 I was reading a post by Tim, a self-styled eco-remodeler. He's recently completed a bamboo flooring installation job in his dining room.   This is a continuation of a job that began in his study.  Part of the way through the job, Tim realized he needed two more boxes of bamboo, ... http://blog.builddirect.com/bamboo/?p=96