How Hard Flooring Helps You Have a Healthier Home

image showing indoor of an house with a focurs on the bamboo flooring

These days everyone is focused on being healthier. We’re spending much more time at home, so it only makes sense you want a healthier home. Did you know that replacing carpets with hard flooring is one of the best ways to improve the health of your home? Carpet traps food, allergens, dust mites, and more … Read more

What Is FloorScore® Certification?

A Standard To Improve Indoor Air Quality: FloorScore® Certification What comes to mind when you think of staying healthy? Seeing your doctor? Eating well? Getting plenty of exercises? Chances are, air quality doesn’t come to mind. However, the quality of the air you breathe can impact your health and that of your family. While you … Read more

What is hand scraped wood flooring?

What is hand scraped flooring?

If you love the look and feel of hardwood flooring, but you’re looking for something a little bit rustic or different, then hand scraped flooring might be the ideal flooring for you. Nowadays, “hand-scraping” is actually a machining technique used to make new wood look distressed and antiqued. Before machined wood planks came along, wood … Read more

How do I repair scratches on bamboo flooring?

How to repair babmoo flooring scratches

Unfortunately, there is no flooring material (or other material, really) on earth that is 100% scratch-proof; diamond floors, anyone? Bamboo is the toughest hardwood out there, but it is dent-resistant, not impenetrable. Most hardwood floors can be gouged or dented under heavy duress. I’m sorry to all of the at-home bowlers out there, but you’ll … Read more

Can you put bamboo flooring over radiant heat?

Can you put bamboo flooring over radiant heat

Radiant floor heating systems are a popular construction feature in new home construction. They are also great for large-scale home renovation projects. They can be expensive to install, but several benefits make them appealing to homeowners. By utilizing convection mechanisms, radiant heating provides an energy-efficient heat source for your home. It’s effortless to run – … Read more

Examining the Effects of Hardwood, Cork and Bamboo Flooring on the Environment

Examining effects of bamboo, hardwook and cork flooring

Ambient is proud to present this guest post by Cora Ballek, with the Greener Living Blog Editorial Team’s additions.  Cora is the winner of the 2019 Ambient Bamboo Floors Essay Contest Scholarship.  Cora is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Davis.    On October 8th, 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a … Read more

Bamboo Flooring Colors: How to decide what works for your home.

Choosing the right flooring color for your home’s floors can be a dilemma. What you think might look good when you see a smaller sample or display panel may overwhelm you when it’s your whole floor. There’s no foolproof way to ensure you’ll love the result, but there are some tricks to bettering your odds! … Read more