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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
Would a bamboo floor hold up to a dog? It's really intriguing me as an option.
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No.
People think bamboo is very hard, but what it is is dense. Dense, but relatively soft. Pick up a piece of bamboo flooring and you can practically make marks in it with your finger nail.
Anecdotal:
I used to build cabinets and one of the companies we did work for was a high end interior design/development company. The owner of the company had bamboo flooring in his own house that got mangled by his great dane (admittedly huge dog). Later we did a house where this same company decided to install bamboo flooring - knowing full well the homeowners had two dogs. Homeowner was not impressed when my coworker let slip that bamboo and dogs don't mix (not knowing the owner had dogs).
I believe there are different kinds of bamboo, but the stuff I've seen and handled was not hard at all. Of the woods I've worked with, I think maple is the hardest, but kinda ugly IMO.